ENGLISH.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 36

ENGLISH.

London, May 20,

An ex-convict named Seaman has been sentenced to death for the murder of Mr Levy, an old Jewish gentleman, and his servant on April Gth. Herr Borchgrevink starts on his Antarctic expedition in September. He calls at Melbourne, and thence proceeds direct to Capo Adair. London, May 21.

The rioting in Penzance over the dispute which has arisen through the fishermen objecting to Sunday work has been renewed, and the harbourmaster has been among thoso assaulted. Two gunboats have been sent there to a'sist in preserving peace, and military hold tho town.

The Dillonites are pressing the Parnellites to co-operate with thorn in connection with the Dublin Convention in September. King Prempeh’s envoys, tho Ansali brothers, who wero tried on a charge of forging tho credentials which they brought with them to England, liavo been acquitted. An Anglo-Egyptian company has undertaken to construct a railway from Masaowah, on the Red Sea coast, to Jvassala, at a cost of 38,000,000 francs. Mrs Watt has obtained a decree nisi against tier husband, Hugh Watt, described as a gentleman whom, it is alleged, attempted to bribe the Premier of South Australia during his recent visit there. London, May 25.

Li Hung Chang told an interviewer that Russia and China wero entirely in accord on all points, and that his mission was solely to study tho methods of government in Europe, with a view to introduce reforms in China.

They must maintain friendly relations with France, and they were profoundly grateful to M. Hanotaux for his services after tho Japanese war.