LATEST HOME & FOREIGN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.-Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6976, 27 February 1890, Page 2

LATEST HOME & FOREIGN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.-Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Received February 26, at noon. London, February 25. Seventy persons were arrested at Oloncurry for resisting eviction. Serious riots occurred on the arrival of the prisoners at Newbridge, and the police were repeatedly charged by the mob. Twenty persons were more or less injured, and it was not till the dragoons arrived that the streets were finally cleared. The quantity of wool catalogued at the present series was 262,000 bales, of which 228,000 were sold. 53,000 bales were held over.

Receired February 26, at 5.20 p.m. London, February 25. New Zealand hemp, unchanged. Latest quotations, L 34 Ids to L 35. Received February 26, at 8.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, February 25. A courier reports that the town of Wickenburgh, reported to hare been washed away by the bursting of a dam, at present is safe, but forty persons have been drowned between the township and the dam.

Londoit, February 25. In the House of Commons Sir Geo. Campbell has given notice of motion — " That the House is uawilling to sanction the Western Australian Enenabling Bill until better informed as to the character of the territory of Western Australia, and until the Committee h*s submitted its report ; also, that the House considers a measure yielding control over Western Australiun affairs ought to originate in the Imperial Parliament." In replying to a question in the House of Commons, Sir James Fergusson stated that England would agree to examine the questions submitted to the Berlin Labor Conference aflecting the welfare of the working class, so far as they were in accordance with English law.

New York, February 25. A Russian, dying at Dakota, has confessed to a dynamite plot arranged in 1888 to assassinate the Czar. The confession implicates many prominent officials.