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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9220, 24 November 1888, Page 5

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AGRICULTURE IN NEW CALEDONIA. London, November 22. Mr. John B. Harrison, Professor of Chemistry and Agricultural Science, who has returned from a visit to New Caledonia, is promoting a society with a view to developing agriculture there. ROBBERY ON BOARD A STEAMER. London, November 23. Mr. McCullough, a passenger by the Orizaba, was robbed of £1500 in drafts before the steamer left Naples. The police at Plymouth could not find any clue to the culprit. THE EDUCATION REPORT. London, November 22. At a conference of the supporters of the minority in the recent report on the Education question, it was resolved to use every legislative means in their power to defend the position taken up by the minority. ATTACKED BY ALSATIANS. London, November 22. Two hundred Alsatian recruits attacked an escort, and then decamped to Switzerland. THE IRISH LAND BILL. London, November 23. In the House of Commons, the Irish Land Extension Bill was read a second time. Mr. Parnell opposed it, owing to the absence of provisions to relieve backward tenants, and the inadequacy of the reductions made in judicial rents. THE PROPOSED PACIFIC CABLE. London, November 22. The secretary of the Eastern Extension Cable Co., in a letter to the Times, states that a duplicate cable across the Pacific Ocean would cost four millions, and be difficult to maintain and protect. He adds that cheaper rates would be obtained by adopting the guarantee proposals of Sir John Pender, chairman of the Eastern Co. BULGARIANS 7N~THE RUSSIAN ARMY. St. Petersburg, November 22. The Czar has directed that sixty Bulgarian refugees serving _in the Russian army must either resign their positions, or become naturalised subjects. STOCK MARKETS AGITATED. London, November 22. _ The stock markets are agitated in consequence of a fear that money will become dear. A MISSING SHIP. London, November 22. The ship Renfrewshire, which left Glasgow for Brisbane on May 18th, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. THE LAND BOOM IN THE COLONIES. London, November 22. At a meeting of the London Chartered Bank of Australia, Mr. Garrick, of Queensland, chairman, stated that the rapid rise in the value of city properties in the leading colonies was only apparent, and it would be necessary to exercise caution in making advances on such property. THE PARNELL INQUIRY. - London, November 22. _ Counsel Reid has appealed to Sir •James Hannen to confine the evidence now being taken at the Times-Parnell inquiry to more reasonable limits. He pointed out that such a widespread testimony could serve no good purpose, but only tend to ruin everybody whose name was dragged into it. With reference to the shooting of Lord Mountmorris, the chief point elicited in the cross-examination of Lady Mountmorris showed that her husband's murder was due to a different cause than the tenants' vengeance. The President of the Court expressed a hope that the Times party would see its way to curtail the evidence in the direction indicated.