ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 280, 1 November 1889, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, October 31. Mr Treeve Edgeoumbe, barrister, holds jthat Mrs Maybriok is entitled to an unconditional release, and advises her to apply for a lidbeaa corpus. Buenos Ayres, October 31. There is great mortality amongst the sheep throughout the Argentine Bepublio, and it is estimated that twenty millions have died. New York, October 31. One hundred thousand persons in Dakota are threatened with famine, owing to the failure of the harvest, i Chicago, October 21, Evidence has been given that after the Le Oaron disclosures at London, demands were made at camp 20 that four British spies in the Olan-na-Gael should be expelled. Thos. O'Connor then stated that the executive of the Clan-na-Gael were a parcel of rogues who squandered 100,000 dollars to get the best men imprisoned in London through Le Caron's assistance. Under pressure, Coughlin demanded a secret Committee with a view to elioiting the source of O'Connor's charges. Biggs, the guardian of the Gamp, consented, .^3l Thursday Island, October 31. ~The report that Mr Savage, several native teachers, and the crew of the London Missionary Society's vessel Mary, had been massacred on the east side of Kewai, New Guinea, is generally discredited here. Th« same tribe of natives caused a similar scare some time back.

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London, October 29, The Prince of Wales, aooompanied by hie sons, has started for Egypt. Mr Bradlaugh leaves for Bombay on 14th November, The Duke of Edinburgh hca recovered from his reoent illness. The press generally applaud Sir H. Parkes 1 utterances at Brisbane on the subject of a federal army for Australia. Mr Sexton, M. P., presided over a meeting of the Tenants' Convention at Thurles. It was decided to levy 3d per £ on the rateable value of holdings for the purposa of providing funds. The Australian cruiser Phoanix was launched at Glasgow to-day. Meadows, the Australian light-weight pugilist, met White to-day, and was disqualified for hugging. A fund is being raised for the widow of ■hhfi late Mr A. Ti. Vrnnhnv naf.rntintYioi-