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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1291, 26 November 1896, Page 36

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London, November 17. The Daily Telegraph, says that Elvira, daughter of Don Carlos, has eloped with Count Folehi, an Italian painter, carryiug with her .£12,000 worth of jewels. General Hutton, ex-Commandant of the New South Wale 3 Forces, is announced to give a lecture at Aldershot to his comrades on " Greater Britain." The Duke of Connaught presides. The town of Candia, in Crete, has been placarded with an appeal to the Moslem population, inciting them to proclaim a holy war. The report of the English and Scottish Bank shows a total debtt of The directors state that by an Act passed in 1896 this becomes a capital charge to the contingent fund created under an arrangement made in 1593. Under the Act of 189 G the interest payable on the Bank's securities was reduced more than sufficient to cover the debit balance. The cumulative principle has been abolished, and provision made for a reserve fund. New business continues satisfactory. A detachment of the Rifle Brigade, with artillery, has been ordered to Rhodesia. London, November IS. The Times is satisfied that the grievances of the New Plymouth bondholders have no real foundation, and that the Colony does not deserve to have its securities "posted '■ on the Exchange. Mr Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, speaking at Rochdale, said the Government programme occupied the whole field of moderate and rational reform. Unless their opponents formulated a definite policy for the destruction of the Government, they were unable to ask their followers for undeviating support, and would not risk combining other subjects in order to obtain support. Aid to voluntary schools would form the subject of a separate Bill next session. In the present condition of public opinion it would be madness to insist on proposals which would alienate a large body which found them, impossible of acceptance. The National Conservative Union of Rochdale, on the motion of. Mr Lowles, M.P., has passed a resolution rejoicing that Australia was in favour of the commercial Federation of the Empire. Major Neild, of Sydney, said the proposals to that end must emanate from England. He complained that trustees were still debarred from investing in Australian securities, and that pure colonial wine was taxed heavier than foreign concoctions. London, November 19. The Conservative Union has asked the Government to include the final settlement of Rhodesia in the Government programme, and expressed itself in favour of a preference tariff favouring the products of Great Britain and the colonies as the beginning of the Commercial Federation of the Empire. St. George's Church, Hanover square, where fashionable marriages are usually celebrated, has been burned down. The steamer Memphis, of the Dominion Line, which plies between Liverpool, Canada and the United States, is stranded on the coast of Ireland. Ten passengers were drowned, and 37 rescued. London, November 21. Dr Jameson has undergone a serious operation in the prison hospital, and there is an agitation for his release. Sir Benjamin Richardson, the eminent M.D., is dead, aged 68 years. The P. and O. Company has declared a dividend of 6A per cent. Mr Balfour, speaking at Sheffield, said be did not fear and did not envy the growth of German industries, as ho felt sure they would ultimately prove helpful to British commercial prosperity. The enormous sums spent in Germany on scientific research affected commerce, and caused the production of a great body of trained experts. Let Great Britain, he urged, learn a lesson from this, and there was no doubt she would hold the supremacy in the commerce of the world. Spofforth, the well-known cricketer, was nearly suffocated in a fire which occurred in a tea warehouse in London.