BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10307, 14 March 1895, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ; 7 PERSONAL. London, March 13. Sir T. M'llwraith is seriously ill. THE OROYA. : The Liguria starts for Australia immediately to take up the Oroya's return'voyage. , A heavy is blowing in the Bay of Naples. The Oroya is steady, and not hurting herself. Work on board is suspended. LONDON COUNTY COUNOIL. j Mr Arthur Arnold was elected chairman of the London County Council, Mr Bens, M.P., vice-chairman, and Mr Dickenson was re-elected deputy-chairma-i. THS INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. '; The week's mortality in London from influenza is returned at 473. The death rate in many provincial centres is remarkably high. ! THS NATIONAL REVENUE. Sir J. T. Hibbert informed the Associated Chambers of Commerce that the surplus of the national revenue this year is likely to exceed half a million. A RACIAL DISPUTE. Washington, Match 13. Thirteen hundred armed white cotton pressers attacked the coloured dock labourers at New Orleans. Six were killed^ many wounded, and the rest compelled to take refage in flight. A STRANGE PROCEEDING. A Spaoish war ship repeatedly fired on the American steamer Alliance on the Cuban coast. The latter, which escaped, declares she gave no cause for the action of the Spaniards. THE FRENCH NAVY., Paris, March 13. The Minister for- Marine refuted M. Lockrcy's pessimistic view of the condition of the French navy.