BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10652, 13 May 1895, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Ibt ELtsoTtna tjst,7!GßA?n~aoprnisnT ,l [SPECIAL TO PEERS ASSOCIATION.j THEATRICAL. LONDON, Mat 10. Mr George El wards has engaged Battle Browne, a well-known Australian actress to play Lottie Venne a nart in The Artist's Model. LONDON BANK OF AUSTRALIA. The balance-sheet of the London Chartered Bank of Australia shows old fired deposits £4,347.000, current accounts and new deposits £1,804,000, cash items £1,442,000; investments, bills, loans and other assets in London, £782,000; bills discounted, loans and other assets in the colonies, £5,508,000. AN APPEAL CASE. The Privy Council dismissed the New Zealand appeal case Johnston v. Oldham, with costs. THE WILDE CASE. Wilde will be put on trial again on May 20. MILITARY. Major Penno proceeds to India as second in command of tho Welsh regiment. BEER TAX. Mat 11. The beer tax has been passed by a majority of twenty-four. DIRECT TRADE WITH MANCHESTER. The Manchester Committee of Merchants and Manufacturers ia negotiating with tha Gulf line of steamers for tha despatch ot otea.mer3 direct from Australia to Manchester, beginning m October. COLONIAL CHEESE. In the House of Commons Sir Alez. Puller Acland Hood, M.P. for Wellington, has given notice to introduce a Bill providing for the extension of the Merchandise Marks Act to foreign and colonial cheese. THE PREMIER. Mat 12. Lord Rosebery is cruising in the Channel under medical advice, FROZEN MWAT IN THE ARMY. Mr Bannsrman, Secretary of the War Department, has admitted that tho use of frozen meat in tbs army is due to the economy initiated in 1890, but was not prepared to say anything as to the quality. THE CUBAN INSURRECTION. NEW YORE, Mat 10. It ia reported here that three thousand rebel Cuban cavalry were routed by tho Spaniards, with a loss of seven hundred. The latter lost three hundred. DUTY ON FROZEN MEAT. CAPETOWN, Mat 10. Referring to the proposed duty on frozen meat, Mr Cecil Rhodes said that he favoured protecting the products of the soil of the colony, but was opposed to protecting manufactures. NEWFOUNDLAND. OTTAWA, Mat 12. The Hon G. Foster,' Minister of Finance, states that Newfoundland has agreed to union with the Dominion. TAXATION IN FRANCE. PARI.B, Mat 12, The French religious’orders ara intensely excited and unable to decide on their attitude aa to tho taxation of bishops, and are disputing it. The cardinal priests, the bishops and a hundred and fifty thousand monks are affected by it. Bishop Puget urges that the tax should be paid under protest, aa a refusal means war against tba State and a casus belli between France and the Vatican. THE BEHRING SEA AWARD. VICTORIA (B.O.) Mat 12. The Government complains that the United States has not yet paid tha Behring Sea award, and that the fishermen are therefore practically penniless, and unable to refit for the present season.