HOME AND FOREIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8582, 2 June 1891, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Prat Atsociation.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright A BRADFORD FAILURE. London, May 30. The firm of Robert Shaw and Sons/ 3pinuers, of Bradford, have assigned their estate. The liabilities are set down at £60,000.

AN UNPATRIQTIC INVENTOR. "'. Paris, Junel. Letters have been discovered which prove that M. Turpin, the inventor of melinite, had offered to sell. the secret of his invention to the German Go* vernment before he offered it to Sir W. Armstrong and Co. .

A CORNER IN COTtN. Odessaj June I. The English and German syndicates have purchased all the available com supply here. -

THE PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA. Capetown, May 31. The Portuguese authorities in Massittesse have ordered all Europeans except Portuguese to quit the country. , THE WAR IN CHILL Valparaiso, June 1. The Republic of Bolivia has decided x ' to recognise the Chilian insurgents.

THE MURDERS AT MANIPUR. Calcutta, June 1. Two of the Manipur officers have been sentenced for complicity, in the. murder of Messrs. Quinton, Grim wood,' and othei*s.

TRADE WITH THE COLONIES. \ LoNDojr, June 1. The export to the Australasian colonics is brisker than it has been for years, and the dock sheds are choked with goods. The aggregate tonnage io ; London waiting for cargoes is 80,000.

' NAVAL NEWS. London, June 1. The Australian torpedo gunboat Karrakatta has sailed for the colonies. H.M.S, Nelson replaces the Wellington as flagship at Portsmouth. The Australian cruisers rendezvous at Batavia.

A VACANT GOVERNORSHIP" London,-May 31." ■. Sir Geo. William Des Vceux, Governor of Hongkong, has resigned owing to illhealth. Sir F. Napier JBroome, formerly Governor of Western Australia, wi& probably succeed him.

IRISH LAND PURCHASE BILL. London, June 1. The House of Commons has reported the Irish Land Purchase Bill with 13 pages of amendments.

BIRTHDAY HONOURS. Londojt. May 31. Mr. Wro. Lidderdale, Governor of tin Bank of England, has been appointed a ■•;•;♦. Member of the Privy CouncU. Sir Geo. Stephen, formerly chairmen of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been created the first Colonial Peer. Mr, Robert Giffen, LL.D., the well-known financial writer, and one of the Assist' ant-Secretaries of the Board of Trade, lias been created Commander of the Bath.

THE IMPRISONMENT OF DILLON AND O'BRIEN. London, May 3], Mr. Justin McCarthy has decided not to agitate for the release of Messrs. Dillon and O'B rien.