BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10651, 11 May 1895, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

I LB? EtECTBIO T%LV,(}RAPU~~GOPTSIQBT,'I [Special to Press Association.'! BANK DIRECTORSHIP. I LONDON, Mat 8. ! Sir H. Loch succeeds Sir Hercules I Robinson as a Director of the London j and Westminster Bank. j THE PREMIER. ' # j I As he appeared at the National j f Liberal Club, the Premier looked pale; | and worn, and was leaning on a stick. | He claimed that the recent victories | in by-elections had fortified the posi- | tion of the Government, He admitted . that the Newcastle programme was ; unfinished, but said the Government was prepared to carry it out to the end if the Liberals in Parliament and in the country gave their support. ! THE BANK NOTE FORGERIES. I Howard’s accomplices drew J 33200 i from Continental banka ia a few days bv means of forged notes upon Ooutts’ Bank, London. The facts discovered by the police go to show ; that the forgers were preparing for ; an immense coup; I A CONTRADICTED REPORT. I The Right Hon Sir Arthur Hayter, : M.P. for Walsall, haa been mentioned as a successor to the late Sir Robert ! Duff, but Sir A. Hayter denies that I there is any truth in the report. I PACIFIC CABLE. j Mat 10. I Lord Rosebery, Sir W. V. Har- | court and Mr Arnold Motley, Pref mier, Chancellor and Postmaster- | General respectively, will receive a | deputation from the Chambers' of I Commerce on Friday next supporting f the resolution passed at the Canadian | Conference, for a subsidy for Pacific | steamers and the construction of a I Pacific cable. J THE HON J. G. WARD, f The Hon J. G. Ward has addressed S the Colonial Party ia tha House of | Commons on New Zealand politics, i Sir John Gorst presided, j STATE RAILWAY PURCHASES. STOCKHOLM, Mat 9. | The Government of Sweden and I I Norway has decided to purchase the principal private railways. ANTI - SOCIALISTIC ‘ LEGISLATION, BERLIN, Mat 9. Prince Hohenlohe, the Chancellor, introduced auti-Soeialistie Bills in tha Reichstag to-day. Ha urged that the foundation of the nation’s moral and religious life was at stake, and asked the House to reinstate tha provisions I imposing penalties for resistance to 1 the authority of the Government. IIA TOWN BURNED. VIENNA, Mat 9. - The town of Kubin, in Hungary, has been destroyed by fire. MUSICAL. PARIS, Mat 10. Misses Amelia Wood and Ada Crosaley, from Australia, have made a successful debut at Madame Marchesi’s concert at the Salle Brard.