ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 115, 16 May 1890, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, May 13. Dr Brown, of Bedford, hai be n apyoi .t;d Chnirnaan of the Cui-greti'^iioaui Union

TUo Au^tru'na ecju drun will sail iv August,

Tnirteon thousand qu trtero of N -n> Z a,!: nd whea-. have b3en cold ,>t 3ia 6', E >glish ia la, and foreign 6d, dearer,

Sir John Pender, Chairman of the Easier EsmglonT l»cr ph Company, hir sub ..it d fr 'i.-h tariff ;>roposaie t,o the Colonial A^e-. ;i-G--<-er>l. Mr Cor ii !-!.nik9-',Pi'st >iasißr-Geaeral,Bb .tee that the (.rev n'j loss o-i uuhvard postal sorvice #> Am'.ralia is £78,000, ».nd tbrtl tne r.-iiuo iou of ths postage ra'e to a p !my t" India aud A' straHi would caure au additional 1; h of £130 000. fvf .ruy-fivc to or c n tWien about Ring !i.a :( ei' fo. 1 t!io MUtiohcvpr Cop. Tar . ed'jm of fch > ci y of London ha. o. e i c .\i£- rr'd <n Mr H. M. S r a.ilev. Tuo Du-iedi-j nnd rtuburl.tizi G^Companj wit'i a c<v is ! o r £45,000 Ij'.nb.ifu rep^u-rad, '!' < Pall Mali Gazette, o, mmentm<» o<'be agi *» fci. -_i K-r Mi-- ><..i..r ii , :i 0 C Noitij; rrQn .- ■•.;»nl, sac.) 'h:> th i in en- ate of :hat por i ■)•■ oc (ha c!o y :-ro u.idoubi>dl,r n.'.^iti t-1 \-y t- s .u-.h r.i G^r^nieu''. l'u, . tit Ja.uct Gazette conrsidcua tbai; U.e Nor h oai) ot h. pnu-. <> until d«'. ails have b.en art u.td A'iLiiout u icufioi 'g jihor i't'eres f, O io hundred mombsrß of tha Unioniot (Jiub h>vo i udmiuerl fhf. Marquis oE H--i> tin o ' on at '■ b>rquet in th:) Orys'.al p u w , Pahis, May 14. Coupons valued at 18,000 francs have been stolen from the Minister of Finance. Bkulin, May 13, In the Reichstag. General Capri vi said ho reviewed the Colonial policy with misgivings, but that retreat was now impossible. Bullets and Bibles, he said, must civilise Africa. Hamburg, May 14. Owing to a strike among the gas employees this city w&m left in darkness last night, but arrangements have been made for the restoration of light. Zanzibar, Mny 14. Major Wissman has captured Lundi. One-fourth of Emm Pasha's forces at Bagamoyo are either dead or have deserted.