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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1165, 29 June 1894, Page 34

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London, June 21. A decision has been come to whereby England virtually cancels the lease of the territory between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Albert Edward, Germany allowing Mr Cecil Khodes to construct an uninterrupted telegraph line between the Cape and the Nile. Erastus Wiman, of New York, who is a director of the Central Cyclone Company, has been sentenced to five years' imprison-

ment for forgery. A terrible tragedy is reported from South Shields, where a seaman named Goodwin and his son were found with their throats cut, and Mrs Goodwin with her head battered in. It is believed that Goodwin murdered his wife and son and then com-

mitted suicide. A nurse named Gillespie, connected with the Hackney Training School, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment on a charge of cruelly illtreating children under her care, whom she beat with nettles. flu reference to the above case, the London Daily Chronicle (Miiy 3) says that the Hackney Board of GuatSians yesterday discussed at some length a special report brought up by a committee appointed to ; investigate allegations of cruelty against a nurse at Brentwood Schools (Ellen Gillespie). Mr Penton Jones brought up the report, and said that, though they had not completed their investigations, they deemed it prudent to bring up an interim report, so that the guardians might decide as to whether they would ask the Local Government Board to institute an official inquiry and prosecute the girl. The report stated that there was evidence to show that the children had been treated with considerable cruelty. They were compelled to do what was known as " basket drill, carrying baskets of clothing about for periods varying, between half an hour and three hours; they had been made to kneel with their bare legs upon the wire guards surrounding the hot-water pipes; they had been knocked down and got cut heads as a consequence; the nurse had struck them with keys and cut their heads open ; she had knocked their heads against the walls, beaten their naked bodies with stringing nettles, immersed their heads in pails of water, and continually punished the children without authority. The Board decided to institute a prosecution upon the evidence now given.] The Times considers it will be impossible for Great Britain to accept Mr Rhodes' proposed South African preferential duties against foreign goods, unless the whole nation assents. The proposal involves an entire change of policy, and must embrace all the colonies. . m L « The proposed Stock Conversion Trust for the purpose of dealing with the deposit receipts of the reconstructed banks will not convert the securities unless it receives a certain proportion of each bank's deposits. It is proposed to begin with The value of the rupee has been officially fixed at 13Jd till September. London, Juno 23. In reply to a question in the House of Commons, the Hon G. Shaw - Lefevre, President of the Local Government Board, said the Government proposed to enquire into the management of the Hackney Training School, from which one of the nurses was recently sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for illtreating children. He added that in the meantime the manager had been suspended. Mr Martin s(of Turnbull, Martin and Co.) one of the new board of directors ©f the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, declares that the board ha 3 determined to resist the initiation of civil proceedings, proposed by Mr Stewart, the official receiver, to recover from the members of the old board the amount of the dividends paid out of capital. Brail, the Anarchist, charged with felony and having in his possession plans for the' destruction of the police and traitors to Anarchism, has been committed for trial. At his lodgings was found apparatus for coining. Sir Frederick Young has published a letter he received from a prominent Soxvth Australian suggesting that the colonies should impose a differential duty of 5 per cent, in favour of British goods as against foreign. The Deposit Trust Company offers to convert .£250,000 each of the Victorian and National Banks' deposits, and £500,000 each of the Joint Stock Bank, London Bank of Australia and Commercial of Australia, into £1,075,000 first charge 4 per cents., £600,000 second charge 4| per cents., and £325,000 reversionary stock. The Dutch Government, in reply to the British representations regarding the seizure of the. Costa Rica Packet, states that the question is still under consideration. Lord Kunberley has forwarded another communication insisting on an early decision of the case. London, June 24. The St. James' Gazette, referring to the report that the Dutch Government refused to compensate Captain Carpenter and the owners and crew of the Sydney-owned vessel, Costa Rica Packet, for seizure in Java waters, declares that unless the Imperial Government acts firmly and quickly, New* South ■ Wales will cause trouble. A collision has taken place between the steamer Deland and a New York liner on the Atlantic. The accident happened daring the night, and: both vessels were seriously damaged, but the watertight , bulkheads saved a disaster. The vessels, however, proceeded on their journey. " A new torpedo destroyer has achieved a speed of 29} knots on its trial trip, beating the record of those which have preceded it. London, June 25. Sir S. Samuel ha« ascertained that the

Dutch Government is undecided as to what course to take with respect to the Costa Rica claim. The Times condemns the Deposit J rust Company as an attempt to convert the creditors into shareholders, and declares that such schemes, which are unsound from top to bottom, ought not to bo countenanced. , . n The Times, referring to the btocfc conversion Trust, suggests that the banks themselves should offer a million of deposit receipts, as stock repayable in 15 years, making the exchange when the first instalment now repayable matures. London, June 20.

The Deposit Trust scheme contemplates a division of stock into three sections, the first charge yielding 4 per cent., second 4| and third reversion. The National Lifeboat Association ot Great Britain has offered to supply New South Wales with lifeboats for tho purpose of establishing a service in the colony. . „ _ ~ Lord Aberdeen will officially welcome the Conference delegates at Ottawa. Lord Jersey and tho Australian delegates will reply. " The Canadians wish to limit the discussion to the trade relations, cable and steamship services, and to exclude tho Samoan question and Imperial defence.