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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 103, 26 January 1894, Page 2

I Mr A. J. Balfour, speaking at Mail- ! cheater, advocated the establishment of an Imperial Defence Department, and stated . that the loss of the colonies would be England's ruin. He declared that the activo naval preparations carried on by Russia and France were directed against England. The death is announced of General Mellinet, ono of the ablest of the older French generals. He took a prominent part in the Crimean War. The death is announced of Mr Cornelius Thompson, of the Aberdeen line of vessels. The French warship Scorff, bound from Auckland, has arrived at Port Chalmers. The articles found near Auckland, therefore, were either washed or thrown overboard.

A rumour has been circulated that King Alexander, ot fServia lias been murdered.

| 1 lie steamer Norutauia, bound from New York to Naples, experienced n tidal wave crossing the Atlantic, and damage I estimated at A'20,000 was done to the ship. 1 here was a panic on board, as it was thought tile steamer had collided with it derelict. Many persons were injured. •litbfz Balfour, wanted in Loudon in connection with the Liberator Building Company frauds, has been arrested Indirection of tiie British Consul, and starts for England on Saturday. Balfour was attempting to escape into Bolivia when he was arrested. A number of sheep on Mr C. Beetliam s “Clifton” run, Pahiatua, were worried Indogs on Wednesday. Air McKittrick, assistant in the local Post Office, has gone to Blenheim for a three week's holiday. A section of the European press in India contains scathing criticisms on the Marquis of Lansdowne's administration while lie was Viceroy. The Marquis of Lansdowno, in an address upon India, stated that the continued advancing of Ruasia, France, and China made it necessary for the frontier to be closely guarded, aud that the frequent interposing of the Britisli Parliament menaced the safety of the Empire. The negotiations proceeding with Russia over the Pamirs would, he thought, be settled satisfactorily.

Mr McPherson, labor member of the South Australian Parliament, has written to the English press warning intending emigrants from going to that colony until tiie land question lias been settled. He asserts that tiie relations between masters and men will not improve while freedom of contract is enforced. The Marquis of Ripon has promised the Vgeuts Genernl that he will submit the report of tiie Yew South Wales Parliamentary Committee oi. tfic Costa Rica Packet case to the Crown law officers, md ask them to reconsider the matter. The United States Finance Committee ipprove the introduction of the incometax.

Spanish military experts are advising the fortification of the Bay of Algeciras. to tiie west of Gibraltar, in order to secure power to silence the British forts at Gibraltar. A report furnished by the Victorian hallway Commissioners on the nonnaying lines shows a mileage of 174, involving a loss of £09,000 per annum. Prince Bismarck lias accepted the Emperor s request for an interval next week. The Loudon Times, referring to the nolilieal crisis ill New South Wales, eon■''tiers it may become very serious, and doubts the ability of the bibbs Government to retain office in defiance of the Opposition, un *ss the House agrees to gram supplies.

GeucnU Bir Charlwi Walker is dead. Lord Konlyn, after winning a sum of money at Monte Carlo, was robin<l of £14,000. The Gold export of C’upe Colony for last year was valued at five and a quarter million pound*. Congress believed to be favorable to a provisional Government being established in Hawaii. The manifesto of the American Irish National League advocates a return to the dynamite and murder policy. Ihe Irish National League in New in their manifesto declare that the time for protesting has passed, and that the most ctlecuve weapons are the rattle of musketry and the explosion of mines. \ellow fever is still prevalent in Rio de Janiero. The French Chamber of Deputies has unanimously adopted a motion to support tho steps taken by the Government to enforce the French rights in Madagascar. Ihe Premier declined to admit the neces sity of an expedition being despatched, but implied that tho Government would do its duty in the matter.

Sir Henry Locke lias renewed his pledges for tho protection of King Lobcngula. and assures the latter that he will not be deported. Sir Henry is willing to grant the fugitive King a homo south of Orange Kiver, and the British South African Chartered Company will pay him a pension. The United States House of Representatives has passed a measure providing for the immediate and entire abolition of the bounty on sugar. The Agent-General of Victoria has induced the governing body of the Imperial Institute to allow tho sale of Australian wines within the institution.