HOME AND FOREIGN

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8959, 17 August 1892, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN

Preu Auociation.— Telegraph.—Copyright VICTORIAN AGENT-GENERAL. London, August 15. Mr. Munro has not yet decided what action he will take, and has only asked whether leave of absence would be granted him if he found it necessary to return to the colony. • Sir W. J. Clarke offers, on his own initiative, to take charge of the London Agency for six months, to enable Mr. Munro to return to Melbourne. / Mr. Munro declares that the statements published concerning him are outrageous, and states that his faith in the Real Estate Bank was so great that he bought shares in the institution the same week as the cloud burst. 'He had deposited the whole of his wife's money, amounting to £10,000, in the bank, and everything had gone. Melbourne, August 16. The Government have decided that Mr. Munro, Agent-General for Victoria, should take indefinite leave of absence. I THE WAR VENEZUELA New York, August 15. Information from Venezuela states ! that the town of Bolivar was captured by stratagem by the rebels, who, under the pretence of flight, succeeded in drawing the garaison troops out of the city. SHIPPING DISASTER London, August 15.The barque Throcicin capsized off the Isle of Man, and 17 of her crew were drowned. IMMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND. London, August 15. Mr. W. Perceval, New Zealand AgentGeneral, is making inquiries with regard to a reduction in the passage money to New Zealand for persons who intend to emigrate to the colony and take up farming pursuits.

THE SILVER QUESTION IN INDIA Calcutta, August 15. There is an increased agitation on the silver question, and the apparent supineness of the Government has given grave dissatisfaction. The Currency Association urges the Secretary for India to cable permission to the local Government to adopt the gold standard.

IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS. London, August 15. • At a meeting in Phoenix Park, Dublin, which was attended by fifteen thousand people, resolutions were carried demanding that an amnesty be granted to political prisoners. ' " "

THE KANAKA LABOUR UT QUEENSLAND. London, August 16. A blue book has been published, containing despatches from the Colonial Governments on the Kanaka labour question. Sir Henry Norman, Governor of Queensland, writing under date of May 23rd, expresses the opinion that abuses would be very rare indeed, and if committed at all, were sure to b« detected. The opposition to the resumption of the traffic was mainly, he considered, confined to the clergy and trade unions. He asserted that employment in Queensland was very popular among the islanders.