ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 244, 14 October 1891, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London October 12.

Wheat is sixpence dearer.

Morion and Victorious are equal favoarites for the Cesarewitch at 8 to 1 each. Mons Meg is quoted at 100 to 8.

It is expected that the son of the late Mr W. H. Smith will be returned unopposed for the Strand seat in the House of Commons.

< The Daily Chronicle, in. an artiole referring to the death of Mr Parnell, states that he found Ireland a nation of serfs and left it a free democraoy. The proposals of Mr T. Playford, Premier of South Australia, for the limitation of holdings and compulsory sale of leasehold property is causing considerable alarm, and it is rumoured that large withdrawals of oapifcal from that Colony are contemplated . Arrived— s.s. Rangatira, from Wellington, sailed August 21.

October 13.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph wires that a conspiracy against the life of the Czar has been discovered at Kiev, and that a printing press has been seized. A serious outbreak has taken place among the students, and although many have been arrested, the spirit of revolt is spreading.

Paris, October 13. Many residents in Paris have petitioned the Government to remove the late exhibition buildings and als:> the Eiffel Tower, Bedssels, October 13. Information has reached here that the Belgian vessel Ellen, in consequence of losing her bearings in the Mediterranean Sea, drifted hopelessly about for a fortnight. The crew suffered terrible privations, twelve of the nnmber dying from starvation, and only one was rescued.

Bkblin, October 12, The numerical strength of the German army is eleven thousand below that of France, but the war vote of the latter is thirty million franos above that of the German.

Monte Video, October 12. A rebellion has taken place in Uruguay with the object to Beize the Junta and murder the President, but it failed, and the military suppressed tne revolt after sharp fighting, in which a number of the inßurgents were killed.

Madbid, October 12. Queen Christina has paid a visit to Mr Seymour Lucas, the English painter, and the others who were injured in the reoent railway accident at Burgos.