The Lyttelton Times. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1897.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11368, 8 September 1897, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 , 1897.

At a banquet at Hamburg, the Emperor William stated that the presence of K~ing Humbert in Germany showed that the Triple Alliance was unshakable. It is understood that the New South Wales Post Office and the New Zealand Post Office are in communication with regard to a further attempt to recover the Tasmania’s mails. The Indian Government has thanked the native chiefs for their offer of troops to assist the British. Regret is expressed that the Government is only able to employ a limited number. The Ameer, in an autograph letter to the Indian Government, strongly condemns the action of the mollahs in secretly influencing his subjects. After despatching this letter, the Ameer ordered the outpost troops under his direct control to prevent the people from joining the rebels. The Mbhmaud people are quarrelling amongst themselves, and it is not expected that they will offer any serious resistance to the British force. They are now caught between the forces under Sir Bindon Blood and Brigadier-General Elies; The authorities at Nepaul have forbidden the circulation of seditious native newspapers. Captainßudiger, the Governor of German New Guinea, has been murdered by natives. The steamer Corinna struck the Patiti reef at Timn.ru yesterday. Some damage was done, and the vessel will be docked at Port Chalmers. At the Magistrate’s Court; yesterday, a man named Franklin was fined .£5 and costs on a charge of having laid totalisator odds at the Eiccarton racecourse on August 12. The foreign admirals have proposed to their respective Governments that the blockade of Crete should be raised, as the officers and men belonging to the warships are being occupied to no purpose. A Trades Union Congress sitting at Birmingham is attended by representatives of a million and a quarter of workers. A committee reported to tbe Congress that judges’ interpretations of labour laws have endangered the Unionist movement. Wheat has an improving demand ia London. Prices at Mark Lane have advanced by sixpence per quarter. Yesterday’s sitting of the Federal Convention at Sydney was wholly occupied ia the discussion of questions of finance.