HOME AND FOREIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9140, 23 August 1888, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[press association.]

THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. London, August 21. Notice of appeal has been given against the judgment of Mr. Justice North, upholding the action of the directors of the Bank of Australasia in granting a pension of £1500 a-year for five years to the family of Mr. Parkes, the Melbourne manager of the bank, who was killed in the railway accident.

NEW LINE OF STEAMERS. London, August 21. The new German-Australian Shipping Company are building six new steamers for that trade.

NEW ZEALAND MEAT CONDEMNED.

London, August 22. Fourteen hundred tins of canned meats, ex Arawa and Tongariro, have been condemned.

GENERAL BOULANGER'S ELECTION.

Paris, August 20. The majorities by which Boulanger was elected in the recent contests, amount in the agregate to a hundred thousand votes.

THE ORANGE FREE STATE. Capetown, August 21. Mr. R. Attz has been nominated for the presidency of the Orange Free State, in place of Sir J. H. Brand, deceased.

CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS OF ALL FAITHS. Stockholm, August 21. A conference composed of delegates representing all Christian faiths in the world is about to be held here. All civilised Powers will be represented. REPORTED DEATH OF LUPTON BEY. Cairo, August 21. It is reported that Lupton Bey, who was detained as a prisoner at Khartoum, is dead. It is stated that he had been subjected to severe ill-treatment.

NAVAL MANOEUVRES. London, August 20. The naval manoeuvres have now concluded, and the fleets have dispersed.

ENGLISH TOURISTS ASSAULTED

Madrid, August 20. Two English tourists were assaulted near Gibraltar by Spanish beggars, who used their knives against the Englishmen. The Spaniards were arrested, and escorted to San Roque, charged with assault, and remanded. SPANISH REVOLT. Madrid, August 20. A number of Spanish regiments in the provinces broke into revolution, but order was restored after several or the ringleaders had been arrested.

MILITARY AID FROM INDIAN PRINCES. Calcutta, August 21. The Indian Government have had under their consideration the offers of military assistance from the Nizam of Hyderabad and other princes, and have now decided to ask them to maintain small but fully equipped forces to be used if the necessity should arise.

THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. London, August 20. Sir J. R. Somers Vine will shortly pay a visit to the colonies in the interests of the Imperial Institute.

GLASGOW TOWN HALL.

London, August 21. Her Majesty the Queen has left London for Glasgow to open the new Town Hall in that city.

THE AORANGI.

Rio Janeiro, August 18. The R.M.s. Aorangi, from New Zealand, arrived here to-day with passengers all well, and her frozen meat in good condition.