BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6145, 18 August 1891, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

» '/ !*er Press Association — Electric Telegraph . —Copyright] LONDON, Aua. 15. The stoamer Duke of Buckingham is oading for Wellington, Canterbury and )tago. Mr Parnell, in addressing a meeting at Orogheda, asserted that although both Mr Vforley and Mr Gladstono nine days before, she verdiob was deolared in fcho divorce jase knew the result fchey opposed his retirement fromfche.leadership until kicked into ib by the Nonconformist conscience. Aug. 17. There is no improvement in bhe condition of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. Parnell has refused Dillon's overtures to divert the funds in fcho hands of the | Paris bankers to the aid of evicted tenants. He twits Dillon with nob having practised whafc he preached when he counselled fche tradesmen of Tipperary to withdraw from Smith Barry's houses, inasmuch as Dillon asked him to lend him a thousand pounds bo prevent his house and furniture being sold. Mv Maxim, inventor of the well-known rapid firing gun, is reported to have invented a flying machine which will carry two tona afc the rate of ninety miles an hour. The Mark Lane grain market is hardening. Prices are 2s 6d above lasfc Monday's quotations. Reports from Berlin state fchat fche prices there are twelve marks above Saturday's, and the American reports also state prices are hardoning fchere. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 17. The Ozarewitch received a great ovation at Moscow on his return from his Eastern

tour. BRUSSELS, Aug. 17. Tho Socialist Congress afc Brussels has refused admission to the Anarchists, on the ground that the Socialists desire to reform, and not destroy the constitution. SOFIA, Aug 17. Prince Ferdinand has arrived at Rusbchuk. Ha declares that Bulgaria has risen in the estimation of the rest of the world, and asserts that he hn's tho full sympathy and friendship of the Ernporor of Austria. M. Stambouloff, the Premier, declares that he is unable to stop the immigration •of Jewish refugees because they are the viobims of the Russian barbarous policy. PARIS, Aug. 17. Sir Moiell McKenzie, M.D., in the course of an interview with a representative from the Gaulois newspaper, stated that the disease to the ear from which the Emperor of Germany is suffering is serious, but it is possible that His Majesty would live to a good old age. He predicts that the reported accident to the Emperor is merely a stiff knee. The yield of the French wheat crop shows a deficiency of thirty two million hectolitres,. and in consequence of this falling off, the Customs surtax has been suspendod for one year. The Congregation of Rtfces has decided that the " Holy Coat" at Argenterii (not the Argentine), a small town near Paris, is of Jesus when a child, and that the Coata of Trevea and Argentenil belong to different periods. Nearly two million pilgrims are arranging to visit Treves. Thirty-four thousand pass through the Cathedral, where the holy relic is exhibited, every day. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Owing to a parachute failing to open, a woman who waa making a descent at Cincinnati fell five hundred feet, and was dashed to pieces. A similar accident occurred at New York, where a parachutist fell into the wator and was drowned. CAPETOWN, Aug. 15. R.M.S. .Ruapehu sailed feo-day for Hobart and Wellington. VALPARAISO, Aug. 17. Information has been received that the cruiser Esmeralda has destroyed the Guano factories on the Choros Islands. BERNE, Aug. 17. Twelve persons were killed and many injured by a railway collision in this city, where the visitors' festival is being held. Tho train was shunting at Zollikofen in order to allow tho Paris express to pass, when the latter came up and dashed into ifc. Forty-eight persons were injured by the railway accident at Zollikofen. PEKIN Aug. 17. The Pekin officials remain obdurate to the demand of the Great Powers for indemnity from China for loss in the recent . riots. The Powers threaten naval action. NE\v;YORK, Aug. 17. Mr Forster, Secretary to the Treasury, in an interview with a representative of tho Now York Herald, said the Government had a reserve amounting to one hundred million dollars in gold, besides another amount of some millions, which is only to be drawn upon in case of grave emergency, without the gold reservo of 100 millions, which was available. Details have been received from Chili of fehe capture of Pisagua by the insurgents. Of a force of three hundred defending tho town only twenty-five were left alive. The residents were decimated by the shell fire. Tho insurgents carried off the Govornor to soa, and drowned him in revenge for his cruelties. „