HOME AND FOREIGN

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2056, 11 January 1887, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN

GERMANY AND FRANCE. GERMANY' INCREASING HER GARRISONS. THE LAST EMIGRANT' SHIP VOLUNTEERS WANTED THE QUEEN’S JUBILEE. A WELLINGTON FIRM IN DIFFICULTIES EMIGRATION AND LABOR. Special to Press Association L’XDO.v, Jan 9, Sixteen Berman garrisons at Alsace«Lothringen have been doubled. The Abyssinia will be the last emigrant ship to Sydney, and she takes over 100 domestic servants. The navy and marine pensioners a Portsmouth have been invited by the Imperial Government to vo’un--te a r for active service. The Queen’s Jubilee will be celebrated in India in Febiuary. Messrs Thomson, Shannon and Co, warehousemen, Wellington, of Ur their creditors 15s in the £, payable over a period of twenty months. The offer will probably be accepted, Mr J, Buchanan, of New South Wales, is lecturing on the emigration and labor question. Speaking of the unemployed in Sydney, lie said many were loafers who did not want work, and he contended that there was room in Australia for 100,000,000 people. He referred to the thousands of pounds remitted from New South Wales to England to bring out friends. The principles of free trade would, he argued be acceptable tc the colonies. Mr Norton of the Trade and Labor Council, Sydney, reproached Mr Buchanan with inconsistency, and he ridiculed the statement that the colonies would accept the principles of fair trade. He stated that the unemployed at present in Australia numbered 40,000 of whom 0000 were in the vicinity of Sydney. Eight emigrants who had returned from Australia, declaring they were starved in Australia, attempted to address tlie assemblage, but; were refused, and one was ejected from the platform. The meeting broke up in disorder. THE EASTERN QUESTION, DEATH OF SERGEANT BALLANTYNE. ARRIVAL OF,THE CUZTO. [ Lieu tor’s Telegrams.] Paris, Jan 9. ' The Bulgarian deputation had an unofficial interview to-day with M. Eleurens, who expressed sympathy with the troubles of Bulgaria but arged the depuLitim to hearken to the wishes of Russia and withdraw the demands made winch wore displeasing to that country. London, Jan 10. The death is announced of Hergfc IJa!lantyn<’, the will known barris-j ter, aged 72. • lie Orient steamship Cuzco, Melbourne, December 2nd, arrived at Plymouth yesterday.