HOME AND FOREIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8534, 7 April 1891, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press Association. —Electric Telegraph.—Copyright THE GERMAN COAL RING. Berlin, April ■*. The German companies are buying enormous quantities of coal in England and America for the purpose of breaking the German ring.

THE LABOUR COMMISSION. London, April 6. Mr. W. H. Smith has refused to accept Mr. M. Davitt as a representative of Mr. Justin McCarthy's party on the Government Labour Commission.

THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN ' SPAIN. Madrid, April 6. The Government is taking steps to regulate the hours of labour for women and children, and will also legislate in the direction of restricting Sunday work.

THE ARGENTINE CURRENCY... Buenos Ayres, April 6. The Government have decided to issue paper money on a metallic basis.

MR. PARNELL IN DUBLIN.

London, April 6. # Mr. Parnell, speaking at Dublin, said that the Liberals were notorious for making political prisoners and the Tories for liberating them.

GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

Berlin, April 6. General Von Caprivi, - Chancellor) states that the German south-west African colonies will be ceded to Great Britain unless the Anglo-Hamburg Syndicate obtains the necessary capital. ,

THE VICTORIAN LOAN. London, April 4._ It is expected the Victorian loan will realise a minimum of 97L Tenders will be opened on April 13. The banks are discussing the underwriting, but their decision has been kept a secret.

BROKEN HILL MINING. London, April 4. It is reported that a company has secured two blocks of the Broken Hill Consols property for half a million.

THE ENGLISH CENSUS. London, April 4. Sixty thousand enumerators are engaged in taking the census.