BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6296, 17 February 1892, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

Prett Aitoclation— Electric Telegraph — Copyright.] LONDON, Feb. 15. The Metropolitan Gas Company is collecting a large coal supply, fearing that trouble with the miners and dock laborers will be increased in the spring. Madame Melba will make an appeal to the Court to-morrow with a view of preventing her husband taking ex parte evidence in Vienna until the point has been decided whether her marriage is an English or colonial one. Cayargua, the Italian who was arrested in Birmingham tor having in his possession a number of bombs, and who was believed to have been connected with the Wallsall Anarchists, has been discharged from custody, his statement that the bombs were intended for the destruction of rabbits in Australia having been proved to the satisfaction of the Court. The recovery in colonial stocks has been checked owing to the new railway construction policy of Mr Shiels, the Victorian Premier, and the discovery that Victorian bonds are about to be placed on the London market. Professor Morland, a tutor at Oxford University, who was exposed by Truth of feloniously blackmailing Lord Hothfield, has been arrested on the charge and remanded. At the wool auctions prices remain unchanged. Fkis. 16. — A fierce easterly gale, with a heavy snowfall, has been experienced in the greater part of England, delaying trains and interfering with telegraph communication. In the House of Commons Mr T, Sexton's amendment to Address-in-Reply to the effect that the Irish Land Purchase Act had been a failure, and that Government were not competent to administer affairs in Ireland, was rejected on a snap division by 21. Many of the Unionist party were absent from the House. The Addresa-in-Reply was then agreed to. The Daily News asserts that the provincial agents of the Conservative party recommend that the general election should be held at as early a date as possible. Those arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the Anarchial plot in Wallsall have been committed to trial. Arrived : Nairnsliire and Maori from New Zealand. Mr Justice Jnene has granted an injunction restraining Captain Armstrong from proceeding with the taking of evidence in Vienna by commission on the ground that he did not believe Biich evidence would be admisMablo in England. VIENNA, Fun. 16. Massinct's opera "Werther" has been produced here with brilliant success. vST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 16. Three huudred and fifty Polish Anarchists have been exiled to Siberia, and 160 have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in the prisons at Warsaw. OTTAWA, Feb. 10. Mr J. S. B. Thompson has succeeded in arranging a basis of reciprocity between Canada and the United States. BERLIN, Fkb. 10. The Emperor will pay a visit to Chicago Exhibition.