ENGLISH.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1213, 31 May 1895, Page 34

ENGLISH.

'jONDON, May 21.

With a view to set le the question whether Viscount Wolmer (heir to the late Lord Selborne) is entitled to retain his seat in the House of Commons for West Edinburgh, instructions have been given for a writ to be issued for the seat. Sir W. Vernon Harcourt, leader of the House, approved of the order, and said that even if tho action proposed led to conflict with the House of Lords, Lord Selborne himself was responsible. The committee set up by the House of Commons to report on the matter has reported that Viscount Wolmer has succeeded to the earldom. Taylor, against whom and Oscar Wilde the scandalous charges have been pending, has been found guilty. London, May 22. The holders of New Plymouth Harbour .Board bonds have induced a section of the brokers to petition the Stock Exchang'e not to quote New Zealand 3 per cent, stock.

At a meeting of the Otago and Southland Investment Company, Mr James Jackson, Who presided, said that the last debenture issue by the company resulted in <£92,C00 being subscribed. In the year, i>265,000 of debentures had expired, and these would be renewed at 93, the remainder being paid. At the London branch of the ManchesterSalford Bank a thief snatched from the counter a case containing .£3000., with which he managed to effect his escape. London, May 23. Jabez Balfour has been committed to Stand his trial at the June sessions on six charges. London, May 24. Lord Salisbury in his speech at Bradford gaid it was imperative for the Empire to assume new responsibilities when opening new markets in uncivilised nations. The P. and O. Company's new cargo steamer Borneo, of 5000 tons, has been launched. The Times in referring to the deputation from the Associated Chambers of Commerce which will wait to-day on the Premier, Chancellor and Postmaster-General in support of the resolution carried at the Canadian Conference favouring a subsidy to the Pacific steamers and the cable, strongly urges Lord Rosebery to assent to the proposals of the colonies. The Times says that the colonies have already taken their part in welding the Empire, and colonial taxpayers are bearing the burden. London, May 26.

Leonard Harper has been remanded until July 10th to await documents from New Zealand. Bail has been allowed "in two sureties of ,£IOOO each. At the Bow street Police Court, counsel for Leonard Harpei repeated that the accused was willing to return to New Zealand. The Bank of New. Zealand is issuing ,£750,000 worth of 4 per cent, debentures, redeemable in 190-1, to replace the 5A- per cent, debentures payable in November. ' The Marquis of Breadalbane has refused the Governorship of New South Wales. .... Many applications have been received for the position. The Financial Bill has passed through committee without amendment. Rumours of an impending dissolution continue. The Triumph Goldmining Company of Hauraki is announced with a capital of ,£IOO,OOO, half of which is being offered on the English market. Arthur Orton, in his confession regarding his claims to the Tichborne title, states that while he was at Wagga a chum showed him Lady Tichborne's advertisement, and suggested that he answered to the description of the missing heir given therein. Oat of devilment Orton pre tended to be affected to tears, and thus created a wrong impression for the sake of a lark. It is thought he had never heard of Tichborne before his chum showed him the advertisement. Mr Gribbs, of Wagga, -was the attorney who persuaded him to write claiming the succession. Orton says blade " gave away" all the details of Tichborne family affairs, and he simply sucked Slade's brains. Ho merely asked Lady Tichborne fcr .£3OO in the first instance, but the popular confidence that he was the heir forced on the imposition. His intention was to sail for Panama. Mr Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board in the last Salisbury Administration, has been elected unopposed for the Croydon seat, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Hon. S. Herbert, Conservative. In his Bradford speech, Lord Salisbury said he doubted whether the Turks were answerable for the Armenian atrocities.

Wordy protests would only induce the | I Moslems to continue the persecution, and ] he did not believe the Great Powers would I actively intervene in the matter. I Three disguised men fired at Mr MacSwiney, a Justice of the Peace, who was returning from the sessions at Kanturk, County Cork. None of the shots took effect, and he replied with a revolver, but the men escaped. | The War Office has accepted a tender for the supply of Joshua's Australian brandy to the department. London, May 27. The steamer Khio collided in the Channel with the steamer Duke of Buckingham, from Queensland to London. The" latter vessel received damage to the insulating chamber, but the captain does not think her meat cargo has been injured. A Mines Selection Company, with a capital of .£IOO,OOO, has been formed to operate in Australia and elsewhere. Of the capital required <£78,000 is offered to I the public. I The terms of the convention which has been set up with regard to the seizure of the barque Costa Rica Packet provide that Great Britain and Holland shall invite in a third Power to nominate juries to consult and arbitrate as to the amount of damages to be paid to the captain, officers, crew and owners of the vessel consequent on tho preventive detention of the captain. At a meeting of the London Bank of Australia, Sir J. P. Garrick said there was a "reasonable hope of steady, if slow, improvement in the affairs of the institution.