ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.
. London, June 2. The Irish census returns show a decrease io population of half a million in the last decade.
A powerful syndicate is arranging to light the oit; of Melbourne by eleotrioity. The motive power wili be watar, and the capital of the Oompany will probably be £200,000. four thousand employees ' o( the London General Omnibus Oompany threaten to go out on strike on Friday, unless their demands for 12 hours per day and an increase of wages are conceded.
Forty bankers met the Direotors of the Bank of England to disouss the fixing of the disoount rates, and to take steps to prevent a drain of gold from London in the summer.
The London Oounty Oounoil has been informed by its chairman, Sir John Lubbook, that it will soon be essential for the Oounoil to expend a sum of twenty-five millions sterling on necessary works in the oity. These inolude water eupply, completion of Che drainage system, and the rebuilding of London bridge.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 181, 4 June 1891, Page 2
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