BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6062, 8 May 1891, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

Per Press Association.— Electric Talegraph —Copyright] LONDON, May 6. The steamer Mildura, one of the Australian squadron, broke down on the ten days' cruise. It is reported Dr. Moorhouse, Bishop of Manchester, will be promoted to ' the Archbishopric of York, rendered vacant by the death of Dr. Magee. May 7. The bank rate of discount is 4 per cent. An English nobleman is reported to have won a quarter of a million francs at Monte Carlo in one coup. The Standard aays that Russia can take a million and a half of gold from London about the middle of May, but will probably make withdrawals gradually. [ The country bankers have decided to issue quarterly balance-sheets. Influenza is spreading through London to an alarming extent. The death is announced of Thomas Hare, inventor of the Hare system of Parliamentary representation. Bell and Co., a China house, has suspended payment. The liabilities are L 200,000. Arrived : Machrihanish, ship, from Auckland (Jan. 27). The Union S.S. Company's new steamer Ovalau, bound from Dumbarton to Port Chalmers, has put into Plymouth with her machinery disabled. It is probable Captain Verney will be expelled from the House of Commons. The Times says that the acceptances in the Baring estate have been run off to within half-a-million. Theprospects of a satisfactory realisation are improving. Mr W. H. Smith's acceptance of tbe wardenship of tho Cinque ports compels him to seek re-election for the Strand, the constituency he represents. Lord Chancellor Halsbury is appealing for LIOO,OOO to enable the Church and Salvation Army to extend their field of operations in the colonies. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 7. The difficulty with Russia over' the stopping at the Dardanelles of vessels flying tho Russian meroantile flag has been satisfactorily arranged. ST. PETERSBURG, Mat 7. Three hundred students have been arrested for attending the Polish centenary fe" tea at Warsaw. PARIS, May 7. The Customs Committee has decided that the reductions in tho tax on flour and corn shall operate for one year. Two nitroglycerine petards have been discovered in the cellars of the hotel where the Marquis Frevise is residing. The strikes have now become almost general at Tournies, Roubaix, Lille, and Calais. BRUSSELS, May 7. Many foreign agitators are inciting the J Belgian miners, and the number of outrages committed by those on strike is increasing. WASHINGTON, May 6. The American Government has seized the Chilian rebel steamer which was loading arms at San Diego, in Lower California. OTTAWA, May 4. The Canadian Paci6c Railway Company ran an express from Vancouver to Montreal in 89 hours. VALPARAISO, May 7, Presidents Balmaceda's side is inviting mediation with a view to ending the insurrection. [Special to Press Association.] Valparaiso, May 6. The Government troops were victorious in an engagement at Ponzellant, and made uso of their victory to behave with fiendish brutality, outraging girls, murdering women', and sacking the town. Washington, May 6. A tornado in Kentucky lifted up a church, and dropped it in the middle of the slreet. Hundreds of buildings are destroyed. London, May 5. The Parnellite delegates are returning from New York. They acknowledge that their mission has been a. failure, and that the subscriptions collected barely meet the expenses of the trip. St. Petersburg, May 5. The evicted Jews from tho interior are arriving in the capital. Thousands have l?een driven through the streets in chains like criminals, and the police are accused of carrying out their orders in an unnecessarily barbarous manner.

Russians who adhere to the Baptist sect are being sentenced to Siberia, and all secedera from the orthodox Greek Church are being persecuted. There is a panic among the Jewish merchants in this city.