BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6478, 22 September 1892, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

[Press Association— EUctric Telegraph— Copyright.] LONDON, Sept. 20. The nomination of Mahon, Labor candidate for South Leeds, turns out to be invalid, and the contest will be between Walton, a Gladstonian, and Nevill, a Conservative. Andrew Mcßae, a grocer's assistant, has been committad for trial for the murder and mutilation of Annie Pritchard, at Althorpe. The new cable rate will not begm before November. The Associated Chambers of Commerce, now meeting at Newport, in Monmouthshire, passed a resolution in favor of free trade between England and the colonies, but rejected the motion in favor of the abrogation of the treaties with Foreign Powers which prevented the colonies giving English goods preference. Sept. 21. — Alfred Rothschild will represent Britain at the monetary conference. H. Frey and Co., general merchants, who closed their Melbourne branch a few days ago, have suspended payment. The liabilities of the firm are estimated at L 150.000, chiefly ia Paris. It is reported in Simla that the Duke of Connaught will succeed Lord Roberts in tho spring as Coramander-in-Chief in India. The London Commercial Deposit Building Society, which suspended payment on the 18th inst., will resume operations to day. The directors have decided to reorganise the Liberator Building Society, which suspeuded in the early part of the month. I CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 21. Russia has called the Sultan's attention to the serious results which may follow if the relations between Turkey and Bulgaria become contrary to the existing treaties. The message has created a sensation in the city. NEW YORK, Sept. 21. [ By a fire at Rockaway beach, a fashionable watering place twenty miles south of New York city, a hundred buildings have been destroyed, including many of the hotels. Several lives were lost, and the damage to property is estimated at half a million dollars.