BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5709, 4 March 1890, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

[By Electrio Telegraph,— Copyright. Per Prea3 Ass'o. - Reo'd Maroh 2, 6.30 p.m] WASHINGTON, March 1. Parleying oviu- the Behring Straits and Canadian fisheries dispute is proceeding, favorably here. Mr Jas. Russell Lawell, author of "The Biglow Papers," and who formerly represented the United States at the Court of St. James, is in critical health. LONDON, March 1. Mr Stopford Allen, who is at present on a visit to the colonies, will be the Unionist, candidate for Stoke-on-Trentconstituency, a vacancy for which has arisen by- Mr W. L. Bright resigning. ■ ■ . , : . •;.• The Times states that the Berlin LaTjpr: Conference is identical with the Beri©Conference, lately abandoned, and is thinand colorless, and it falls far short of the promises made by Emperor William. At the meeting of the Durham and Northumberland miuers resolutions were' carried rejecting the State compulsion of* eight hours labor. .. ' .■• In a statement to the House of Commons Mr Cecil Kaikes shows that the, weight of letters despatched to and received from Australia by way of Brihdisi and Naples for 1889 was lll,ooolbs, and by the direct route 7,7001b5. The Nonconformist Press denounces Mr J. Morley's compact on the free edu- . cation question. The Spectator states that England is. helpless regarding the surrender to, tfee Victorian Divorce Bill, and considers it would bo better to abandon the right.' of veto.. It adds that alliance, with the colonies at the present is one aidedi being •> all freedom with Australia, while all the responsibility rests with England.- \ . ■■ $ : New Zealand hemp is in poor Fair quality is at L 25, middling quality is at L 22. . . IRsceived March 4, noon.) March 3. Thirty-two thousand cement- workers , and lightermen on the Medway"- Have ' struck for an advauce of 10 per cent. The betting on the University boat race is 5 to 4 on Oxford. A hundred thousand colliers in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the Midland Counties will strike on March 15th for an advance in wages of 10 per cent. SOFIA, March 3. A Bulgarian loan of eighty millidtt francs (L 3,200,000) is announced for the ■■' purpose of constructing railways.; ' Bulgaria has informed the Powers that Russia despatched General DimWatOVich to assume the Dictatorship in the events of the conspiracy being successful. ' LISBON, March. 1. The Portuguese National Defence Fund is expected to reach one million pounds* During the past two days eighty, thousand pounds were subscribed. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 1. The Armenian Patriarch has forwarded to the Porte a memorandum on behalf of ••"- compatriots demanding the immediate- * carrying out of reforms promised* by the Porte under the Berlin Conference. : PARIS, March 3.. "" M. Naquet (Boulangist) has-been elected. .'..','"• BERLIN, March 3. The result of 100 second ballots. gives \ . 33 Cartels, 35 Radicals, 12 Centres, . 13 Socialists, and 7 Democrats. '. CAPETOWN, MakchV 3. The [barque] Storm King has arrived/