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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1264, 21 May 1896, Page 36

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London, May 12. It was supposed that tho Ostend-Dover mail had been robbed of £3OOO, but tho bullion lias been found, and had been merely delayed. The personalty of Prince Henry of Battenberg has been sworn at £I9OO.

The llov Perry has been elected chairman of the Congregational Union. Mr W. P. Peeves road a paper at the Colonial Institute in which he described in eloquent language tho beauties of New Zealand. London, May 13. The Voluntary Schools Pill has passed its second reading in the House of Commons by a majority of 207, including 57 Irish members. Sir John Pender, who lias been seriously ill, has resigned his seat in the House of Commons for Wick Purglis. London, May 14. Sir William Ilarcourt has threatened that tho Opposition will light each clause of the Voluntary Schools Pill in committee. Tho Congregational Union has expressed itself amazed at the Irish vote on the Voluntary Schools Pill. Tho liev Perry, tho nowly-elected chairman, asserted that in future Home Pule would not be placed in the forefront of tho programme. London, May 15. Speaking before a meeting of the Colonial Party in tho House of Commons, Major-General Hutton (late Commandant in New South Wales) declared that Melbourne was one of the beat fortified places in the Umpire. Sydney also, he said, had excellent defences. Tho Medical Defence Association has persuaded Dr Pulklcy, of Manchester, recently appointed resident physician at tho Adelaide Hospital, to resign that position. Dr Ramsay Steth has been appointed in liis place.

It is now stated that it was some British merchants who sold to a Russian steamship company a concession at Chefoo. Tho Pneumatic Tyre Company lias purchased Singer and Co.’s cycle works at Coventry for £1,000,090. Mr Donald Larnaoh’s death was rather sudden. He caught a slight cold, which turned to pneumonia, and death quickly supervened. London, May 10. Tho P. and 0. Company has declared a dividend of 5 per cent, on preferred and 7 per cent, on deferred shares. The Committee of tho Radical Party in tho House of Commons has omitted Home Rule from its platform, and limits its present demands to tho abolition of the House of Lords. Settlors on tho Demerara River have sent in a petition to the British Government praying for a prompt settlement of the Venezuelan difliculty without sacrifice of territory. London, May 17. The estate of the late Baron llirsch has been proved to amount to £16,000,000 sterling, in addition to .£5,000,000 worth of property devoted to the improvement of tho condition of the Jews. Tho Baroness receives £8,000,000. Baron Hirsch’s death was caused by an operation for tracheotomy for supposed cancer. London, May IS. The llouso of Commons lias voted a sum of £60,000 additional towards the support of the naval force in Australia. Tho Rev Hugh Price Hughes condemns tho defection <;f the Irish members on the Voluntary Schools Pill, which ho styles as a decisive object lesson, showing that the Irish-Romanist party is incapable of doing justice to English Dissenters. The Liberals, he says, never proposed Home Rule without providing ample justice in religious matters for Ulster.

There were 60,000 tenderers for £5,000,000 of stock offered by the Pneumatic Tyre Company, the total |amount subscribed being £9,000,000.