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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 174, 23 July 1884, Page 2

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London, July 17. Recent rain is improving the prospects of the hop crop. Michael Davitt has postponed his projected tour to the Australian colonies until after the general elections. A dynamite plot against the Czar has heen discovered by the police of Warsaw on the occasion of a visit paid by him to that city. A quantity of arras and dynamite vraa seized. Parnellite organs denounce the sham agitation in the House of Lords on the Franchise Bill. With regard to the postal difficulties, it is announced that New Zealand threatens to impose a sixpenny rate on letters forwarded via Brindisi route, unless specially addressed. Mr Fawcett, Postmaster-General, declines to detain letters for Australia so as to oblige the San Francisco mail service. London, July 18. Seventeen of the crew of the exploring vessel Grceley died from starvation. The survivors subsisted on lichens, and the only clothing they had was sealskins. The Empire Club have entertained the Marquis of Normanby at a banquet. A portion of the cargo of frozen meat by the ship Oamaru has arrived in bad condition. July 18. Pilgrims -who have arrived afc Souakim state that when they left Khartoum General Gordon and his garrison were pafe. They expected that Gordon would make a sortie on the 20th June. Obituary — Sic C. J. Tfafckin "Williams, Judge of the Queen's Bench, aged 56. Two deaths have occurred from cholera at Liverpool, on a ship which had arrived from Marseilles. July 10. The Spectator condemns Lord Derby's ; pronounced indifference to the demands of the colonies, but the Saturday Review, in an article on the same subject, approves the action of the Government, and warns the | colonies to be modest in their demands, and urges the adoption"of a cautious policy. The Daily Telegraph to-day warmly approves of the newly-proposed plans for abmitting colonial barristers to practice at the English, bar. The Greeley exploration party, of which six members were recently rescued, reached 83 deg. 26 min. north latitude, or within 6 deg. 3i min. of the North Pole, The prospectus of the new Oriental Bank Company provides for a capital of two millions. The first issue of _ shares will amount to one million which will be equally divided between England and the colonies. Local Boards of Directory will be appointed for the Indian and colonial branches.

It is considered doubtful whether the Egyptian Conference will again meet, owing to the refusal of the Powers to accept a reduction of the interest on the Egyptian debt, as proposed by the committee of financial experts.

One hundred arrests have been made in connection with the recent dynamite plot at Warsaw to injure the Czar.