BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6485, 30 September 1892, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

• • [Preti Association— Electric Telegraph— Oepyrignt,] LONDON, Sept. 28. Alderman Stuart Knill, who is next in succession for the chair, has replied to Sir D. Evans, Lord Mayor of London, confirming the statement that being a Roman Catholic he finds himself unable to promise to attend the. services of tho English Church officially if elected Lord Mayor, but he offers to send a locum tenons. (Received Sept. 29, 9 p.m.) By the steamer Star of Victoria one hundred tons of plant for extracting ore by the Luhrig process has been shipped to New Zealand, consigned to the Ores Reduction Company. The Earl of Kintore. Governor of South Australia, has telegraphed to Lord Ripon, Secretary of State to the Colonial Department, denying the deficit, and stating that, a small surplus is expected. Lord Ripon has invited the AgentsGeneral to meet him on the 30th to discus 9 colonial matters. Sir E. C. N. Braddon, in an article in Blackwood's Magazine on tho Tasraanian silTer fields, states that the Tasmani»n mines are regarded as more phenomenal in wealth than Broken Hill, and considers that it is likely there will be quite sixty thousand peopU on the Zeehan and Dundas fields by the end of the year. The Countess of Jersey has an article in the Nineteenth Century on her recent visit to New Caledonia. It is reported that; tho Gladstone Government in 1885 ordered Sir Robert George Hamilotn (afc present Governor of Tasmania), who was thon Under-Secretary for Ireland, to draft a scheme of Homo Rula for Ireland. The London County Council has decided to try ths experiment of dispensing with contractors, and is organising a direct municipal staff of workers under Trade Union conditions. At the wool sales the competition is brisk and spirited at late rates. (Received September 80, 10.50 a.m.) The Ashbank is posted as missing afc Lloyds. The Jerusalem House Shipping Exchange has been merged, into the London Shipping Exchange. The Cabinet will discuss the Uganda question to-day. Chaffey Bros, were awarded a silver medal at the London International Horticultural Exhibition. Messrs W. and A. Gilley's report published in the Times states that the French claret vintage of 1892 is good, though the crop was only about half the average quantity. The vines are now healthy. Mr Avinton has paid Watts the jockey LllOO for the first cull on his services for three years. John Osborne has been presented with 360 guineas on his retirement from tho turf. Lady Mabel Bruce has married the bookmaker Levir Station, who risked Australia some years ago. The Russians have seized four more British and two American sealers. Sept. 29.— The American visible supply of wheat is 56,800,000 bushels. The Rev. Mr Allen, Secretary of the Marriage Law Reform Association, urges the Agents General to agitate for a reform' of tho marriage laws. Messrs Bergts and Craig, trading as Bergts, Craig and Co., steamship agents, of Old Broad street, E.G., and who were acting as agents in London for a Bombay firm, have each been sentenced to two years' imprisonment on the charge of forging bills of lading to a considerable amount. The Daily News, referring to the reported withdrawal of deposits from "Australian Banks, states that the rumor originated in the London offices of some of the Northern Banks through whose hands some deposit receipts passed for collection. The News considers the statements misleading, and asserts that the deposits in any of the Australian Banks are now at the highest point ever reached. The Banks, the article says, are very strong in the matter of cash, and their position in Australia is safe. . Dr. Scott Saundera, formerly an officer in the army, who was arrested in Liverpool on a charge of forging the name of Scoldo Brothers to a cheque, has been committed for trial. The liabilities of Trischler and Co. are set down at £15,000. A composition of 7s 6d in the £ is offered. MADRID, Sept. 29. The Spanish vintage is both good in quality and quantity ; the cereal crop, however, is deficient and it will be necessary to import four million pounds worth. PARIS, Sept. 28. Tho French treasurer of the Uganda mission declares that if the British leave the country the Germans will replace them, and the result will be a massacre of Christians. He suggests that King Mwanga should be pensioned under the British protectorate. Cardinal Lavicrerie is in favor of the British taking control of Uganda if they compensate the mis sioners. The French workmen intend to con test all departments noxt year on strongly Socialist platforn. OTTAWA, Sept. 28. The Canadians accuse the United States of prompting the seizure of sealers by Russia. BERLIN, Skpt. 28. The Berlin Post says the deficit in the | Prussian budget next year will be four millions. ROME, Sept. 28. I One hundred persons, suspected of beI longing to a league for the purpose of murder and robbery, have been arrested at Palermo, in Sicily.