BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6481, 26 September 1892, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

[Press Association— Electric Telegraph— Copyright.] LONDON, Sept. 24. At the wool auctions the American buyers are actively competing. The prices for Victorian wool show an upward tendency for good sorts. The export trade to New Zealand is improving, especially in soft goods. The Duke of Sutherland, whose death was announced on Friday, was attacked with a chill and gastric troubles, and died in a few hours at his residence, Dunrobin Castle, on Dornock Firth, in Scotland. The Church Missionary Society is urcing the Foreign Department to hold Uganda even if the British Easfc Africa Company evacuate that portion of the country. Lord Rosebory has replied that the Cabinet would approach the question with a solemn sense of what was due to the Society, and to the people of Uganda and Great Britain. Regarding the venture, he says it is not easy to see the end. Obituary : The Marchioness of Abergavenny. The corporation of Dublin has by a majority of 17 to 16 rejected the proposal that addresses should be presented to Lord Houghton (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) and Mr J. Morley (Irish Secretary) on th«ir official entry into the city. Mr Allen, Secretary of the Marriage Law Reform Association, in a letter to the Times, agitated in favor of marriages lawfully celebrated in one province should be valid within the Empire and States. The Times, discussing the proposal of the Church Missionary Society, urges the British East Africa Company to strain every nerve to render interference in Uganda by the British Government unnecessary. (RceeiTed Sept. 26, noon.) Tallow : Medium mutton is quoted at 255, beef ditto 23s 6d. A new issue of LI OO,OOO worth of debentures by Messrs Chnffey Bros, has been over subscribed. Sept. 25. — The marriage of Prince Ferdinand, of Roumania, and Princess Marie, of Edinburgh, will take place on January 10 at Sigmiringen, on the upper Danube. An English man-of-war has been ordered to Yalivostock to enquire into the circumstances attending the seizure of English sealers. The strike of shipwrights on the Wear has been settled, the men accepting the modified reduction. At a meeting of the Evicted Tenants' Association at Cork, a demand was made for a grant of a quarter of a million to support the tenants, in default of reinstatements. The speakers hinted at the danger of a civil war unless the demand was acceded to. BERLIN, Sept. 24. The Russian papers are making bitter attacks on Germany. This attitude is attributed to Count Shiskim, who was recently appointed to assist M. DcGiera in the Foreign Office, who has virtually control of the Department, owing to the illness of the latter. TANGIERS, Sept. 24. Haman, the rebel leader, has started for Fez to beg the pardon of the Sultan for the recent revolt. PARIS, Sept. 24. The Russian Embassy is not represented at the centennary celebrations. The only ambassadors present were those from England and Italy. Complaints have been received from the French residents in Anam that the Siamese are extending their frontier eastward, and thus diverting the trade which belongs ,to Anam and Cochin China. Strong diplomatic action is urged. OTTAWA, Sept. 24. The statistics submitted at the PanPresbyterian Alliance sitting at Toronto showed that the Alliance represents twenty million Christians. Ifc was proposed to add a third section to the Executive which will include Australia. NEW YORK, Sept. 24. Jamaica is issuing £180,000 worth of 4 per cent, inscribed stock at 103. CALCUTTA, Sept. 24. Further Russian reinforcements to the Pamir expedition have passed through Tashkend, the military headquarters of Russia in Turkestan. It is considered probable that the Indian deficit will amount to between 80 and 150 lacks of rupees. The Ameer of Afghanistan is reported to have posted a notice on the gates of Jelallabad, warning the tribes that he has sent for two brigades of British troops to guard the banks of the Amoo Darya river, for the purpose of repelling the Russians, whom he describes as tyrannical Kaffira. SINGAPORE, Sept. 24. The steam launch which was conveying Sir Cecil Clements Smith, Governor of the Straits Settlements, on his return from the Malay Peninsula, where he had been decorating the Sultan of Perak with the Order of the Commander of St. Michael and St. George, foundered in the Kinta river. His Excellency had a narrow escape of drowning, and actually sank twice, but ultimately was rescued by a Wfilay, though in a very exhausted condition. LISBON, Sept. 25. The Portuguese Government has modified the duties in hopes that trade will benfit by the reduction. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. The officials refuse to release O'Donnell, leader of the Homestead rioters, on bail. CAPETOWN, Sept. 25. A conference is to be held at Pretoria in November to discuss the question of allowing the Transvaal coinage to circulate through South Africa generally. [specials to press association.] Rome, Sept. 21. The Municipality of Rome has sent its congratulations to the King of Italy upon the unity of the country and the overthrow of the temporal claims of the Pope. Washington, Sept. 21. Mr Johnston, of lowa, has ridden a mile on a bicycle in 2min 4sec. Sept. 22. —The telegraph operators in lowa are striking. Ottawa, Sept. 22. The Trades Congress at Toronto protest against the employment of Chinese and Japanese, and demand that goods made by Unionists should be labelled, showing they are manufactured under the eight hours' system. London, Sept. 22. Six miles of overhead electric railways are being built at Liverpool docks. Constantinople, Sept. 23. Brialmont, the Belgian engineer who is engaged upon the defences of the Turkish capital, reports that the existing forts which guard the Dardanelles are valueless. Berlin, Sept. 22. It is reported that Prince Henry of Hesse has married an actress named Milana.