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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1136, 8 December 1893, Page 36

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By Telegraph.—Press Association. London, November 28. Mr JR. S. McKay, of Brisbane, in a letter to the Daily News, declares that the Kanakas are recruited by means of barter and decoy. The Imperial Federation League will dissolve its central body at the end of the year, but not the branches. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone said he considered it unnecessary to appoint a committee to enquire into and report upon the adoption of the betterment system. The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent wires that the Czarewitch is betrothed to Princess Helene of Orleans.

The Home Secretary has refused permission to the Anarchists to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square on Sunday. . London, November 29.

The Cohite de Paris denies that the Czarewitch of Russia is betrothed to the Princess Helene of Orleans.

Mr Murray, who visited the colonies in H.M.S. Challenger, read a paper before the Royal Geographical Society advocating that the Admiralty should send two ships to explore the Antarctic Ocean for three years. Geographers and scientists from all parts of the world, including MM. Newmayer, Schultze, Hackel, Richotfen and Agassiz, urge the importance of the movement, and the Duke of Argyle and Lord Charles Beresford support the suggestion. It is feared that the British steamer John Hawkens has been lost in the Bay of Biscay. Her crew numbered 25 men.

The heaving of Baron Sehroeder’s motion tu'compel the official receiver in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company to hand over bills, has been postponed, pending a settlement in regard to the scheme of reconstruction, which is now being dealt with by the Creditors 5 Committee.

Lieutenant Fitzgerald, of Victoria, has passed a splendid military examination, and is entitled to choice of commission in almost any regiment in the service. Captain Samuel, son of Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, was accidently shot in the leg while shooting at JCnifismore. A portion of the flesh of the leg was shot away, and the bone injured. According to the latest reports, Captain Samuel is in a serious condition.

Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone said he did not believe that Russia was acquiring a naval station in the Mediterranean.

London, November 29. Mr Gathorne Hardy, Conservative member for East Grinstead, has resigned. London, November 30.

Miss Miguel, whose suit for a breach of promise against the Sultan of Johore was dismissed, appealed on the ground that the promise to marry was made by the Sultan when passing under an assumed name. Lord Esher dismissed the appeal. Sir John Thompson, of Canada, has been appointed a member of the Privy Council, in recognition of his services on the Behring Sea Commission. A few days ago a young aristocrat named Leigh, who married and left with a Gaiety actress who visited Australia recently, instituted proceedings for fraud against an English solicitor, Mr John Stodgeons, alleging that he had misapplied the sum of ,£48,000 lodged with him for the purposes of investment. Stodgeons has been suspended for two years. The Home Secretary, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said he was considering the propriety of prosecuting Mr Samuels, editor of the paper known as Commonwealth, upon a charge of inciting the Anarchists to commit murder.

Immense profits have been made by the Durham coal-owners whose men did not join the strike, and who were thus enabled ifco command the market. The Marquis of Londonderry alone is said to have netted a quarter of a million. Clergymen of the Church of England and others who have been conferring regarding the best means of coping with the prevalent distress have approved the principle that sufficient wages should be paid to enable people to live, and have suggested the appointment of Boards of Conciliation.

Evidence • has been given by experts at the trial of Harness and his coadjutors that the appliances sold as electric were merely magnetic, and did not affect patients. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile debenture stock rose 2i yesterday. London, December 1.

The accounts of the Tyser line for 1892 show a debit balance of £58,000, including £20,000 lost on completed voyages. London. December 2. Franco-English Commission proceeds to Siam to examine and delimit neutral zone. Ald rman Dillon, a Parnellite, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. The Duke of Leinster, aged 42 years, and the Earl of Warwick, aged 75 years, are dead. * [The Duke of Leinster, Gerald Fitzgerald, was fifth in succession, and was the eldest son of the fourth Duke. He was born in Dublin in 1851, and succeeded to the title in 1887. He was the premier Duke Marquis and Earl of Ireland. His son, the Marquis of Kildire, succeeds him. George Guy Greville, fourth Earl of Warwick, whose death is also announced, was born in London in 1818. He was for some time a member of the House of Commons.] London, December 3.

The Economist says it must accept N ew South Wales Ministerial statements regarding -the finances of the colony with caution after the auditors’ disclosures with refer-il-knlloaii funrls Ff, that

Victoria still adheres to the vice of subsidising local bodies. A remarkable case is now before one of the Courts. The facts so far as disclosed seemed to show that many years ago a woman named Rachel Cullena, in order to avoid her creditors, personated a man and worked as a plumber. In 1866 she manned a woman named Sophia Newland, who gave birth to four children. Mrs Clarke, a widow, is now claiming an estate from William Cullena, one of the children, and a relative of the plaintiffs, on the ground that Newland’s children must have been illegitimate.

Major-General Sir Alexander Cunningham, of the Bengal Engineers, is dead. He was a celebrated military officer, and was created Companion of the Star of India in 1871.

Mr R. A. Yerburgh and.other members of the House of Commons are founding country co-operative banks on similar lines to those on the Continent. London, December 4.

France and England have agreed to replace the neutral zone in Siam under the rule of China. The British torpedo-catcher Havoc steamed 27 knots an hour on the trial trip. This speed is claimed' to be the fastest ever attained by any vessel in the world. Enraged at not being allowed to attend a ball at Blenheim Palace in celebration of the coming of age of a son of the Duke of Marlborough, the undergraduates at Christ Church, Oxford, painted the doors of the dons and Deans’ residences’ in hideous colours, bedaubed Dean Liddell’s statue, cut the bell ropes, and wrote above the entrance to the cathedral, “ God bless the

Duke of Marlborough !” and “Down with the Dons

The Times refers to the adoption of village settlement schemes by the Queensland and South Australian Governments as novel attempts to supply the greatest need.

Sir Saul Samuel’s son, Captain Samuel, who was shot in the leg while shooting at Ennismore, has had the injured limb amputated, and is now out of danger. The Archbishop of Canterbury has refused to set aside a special Sunday on which to collect funds for the unemployed, on the ground that he does not approve sensational efforts such as that proposed. The Daily Telegraph states that in the event of an outbreak of hostilities in the Balkans it would be impossible to localise it, and that the danger is daily increasing. London, December 5.

Mr John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is suffering from the effects of over-work, and has been ordered by his medical advisers to take complete rest. Mr Bryce will undertake his duties in the House of Commons until he is fully restored to health.