BRITISH & FOREIGN
\Preu Attodation—Electrie Telegraph — Copyright . LONDON, Junk 13. Repairs have been effected to the s.s. Doric's machinery, and the steamer has sailed again. Rioting has taken place in Limerick between the Pamollite and McCarthy factions. Many were injured. Wheat has fallen 61 per quarter. Mr Balfour has announced in the House of Commons to-day that Government intended to proceed with the Small Holdings Bill, Scotch Education, Clergy Discipline, and Irish Free Education Bills. He hoped that the House would be able to dissolve by June 15. The Irish, however, strenuously oppose the last named measure. Lord Salisbury informed the House of 1 Lords that a telegram bad been received from Williams, at Victoria Nyanza, dated March 31, stating that fighting was at an end and the missionaries safe. The Premier appealed to the publio to suspend a verdict on the English officers in Uganda until their reports were received. He was unable to believe that Lugard and VVilliams had committed the acts of violence, alleged against them by the French and German press, but enquiry would be held in due course. June 14. — Lord Salisbury said he believed that the East African Company would only withdraw partially from ■ 'ganda. In his opinion the best hope of holding the territory lay in the construction of a railway. (Received June 15, 11 a.m.) Junb 14. - At tho wool sales to-day 12,700 bales were offered but there was not a representative catalogue. There was a large attendance of buyers and competition was brisk. All the Austaalian wo^ls were firm at the May closing rates, but lower grade New Zealand crass breds were 5 per cent, easier. Captain Williams, in his telegram to the Marquis of Salisbury, expresses hope of an easy settlement of the dispute with King Mwanga and his adherents. The Times is <»lad that tho Premier dia courages the policy of leaving Uganda. The Standard asserts that the East African Company has received L 26,000 from the Church Missionary Society on condition that it remains in Uganda until the end of tho present year, also that native traders leave Uganda within the British sphere regardless of any action which may be taken by the Company to withdraw from tho country. A collision occurred between two workmen's trains in t he Bishopgato tunnel on the Metropolitan line. Three occupants were killed and forty injured. The Daily Telegraph states that it is feared that the depositors in the new Oriental Bank Corporation will only receive 10.S in the £, and that the winding up of tho institution is likely to occupy years, owing to the nature of its assets. Justice Sir Archibald L Smith succeeds Sir Edward Fry as Judge of the CDurt of Appeal. Mr Gladstone has arranged a meeting with the Nonconformist leaders ift London on Saturday. The French authoritieshaving destroyed 300 lobster traps in Newfoundland, H. M. ships Pelican and Emerald, on the North American and West Indies stations, have beon ordered to proceed to St. Johns to enquire into the matter. BERLIN, June 14. Tho German press doubt if the English will withdraw from Uganda. They consider Germany is the next heir to the country, but her hands are too full to permit her to annext it. . MADRID, June 13. Two churches wer» struck by lightning in Spain and fifteen persons killed and forty injured. ST. PETERSBURG, June 13. The Russian Government has approved of Baron Hirsoh's proposal to assist threv and a half million Jews to emigrate in 25 years. NEW YORK, June 14. A great fire broke out in Chicora, Pennsylvania, and hundreds of houses were destroyed. TEHERAN, Jcne 14. Cholera continues in Meshed with unabated severity, and four hundred deaths are recorded daily. CALCUTTA, June 14 The Indian Government has appealed to the Marquis of Salisbury to consider what measures were necessary to be taken to advert disastrous results should America stop the coinage of silver. SAN FRANCISCO, Jitxe 14. By an explosion in the City eleven persons were killed and many injured.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6894, 15 June 1892, Page 2
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