BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6486, 1 October 1892, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

[Press Meodation— Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) LONDON, Sept. 29. The balance of £300,000 worth of Queen?land Treasury bills have been taken up privately at 98. The large dealers in colonial stock and brokers declare that four million of colonial stock is still undigested, therefore they must abstain from assisting in floating the new South Australian loan. The smaller dealers are more favorably disposed if the loan is issued at a small price. At a meeting of the Society for the encouragement of art manufacturers and commerce. Sir E. N. C. Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, read a paper urging Australasia as a field for Anglo-Indian colonisation. Mr H. H. Asquith, Q.C., the Home Secretary, has ruled that meetings held in Trafalgar Square arc legal. The Post Office has definitely declined to renew its assistance to the continuance of the San Francisco mail contract, except under Union rates. Mr W. B. Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand, is seeking an interview with Mr Arnold Morley, Post-master-General, on the subject. Mr Justin McCarthy's advising committee has decided to make an appeal to Australia for funds to sustain the Parliamentary movement. There is a report that Mr John Morley, Irish Secretary, contemplates purging Dublin Castle of all permanent officials. The Labor party have issued a manifesto stating they intend to contest the municipal •lections. John Redmond, in an article in the Nineteenth Century, asked for a guarantee tha* the Irish Parliament shall be unfettered during its sitting and be subject only to the veto of the Crown. It is now believed that Ruby Russell, the actress, found dead in Fulham, and who was suspected of having been poisoned by Heron, with whom she was cohabiting, committed suicide. It is alleged that she discovered that Heron (who committed suicide after her death) had another mistress in the shape of a quadroon from Senegambia. Sir E. Braddon,. Agent-General for Tasmania, publishes an article in one of the local papers demanding that England shall legalise the celebration of any marriage in the colonies with a deceased wife's sister. It is reported that an attempt to place a quarter of a million pounds worth of Queensland Treasury bills at 98 have failed. The City financiers consider that peddling of thig character is disastrous to the best interests of the colony, and will probably affect other colonies. Mr Fitzgibbon, formerly Town Clerk of Melbourne,^ and now of the Metropolitan Board of Works, has formed a finance committee in connection with the Board of Works loan. A consulative cable message sent to Melbourne leaked out, and was wired back to London, where it appeared in the form that it was proposed to place a million loan on the market to-morrow. Mr Fitzgibbon denies that the amount of loan was fixed, and complains that the publication of the message is likely to damage the issue. Victorian stocks fell £ per cent, in consequence of the announcement. It is reported that Government will appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into the rents in Ireland. The Prince of Wales and Lord Methven, visiting the Life Guards, promised if the offenders in the late insubordination would step forward the matter would bo treated as one of simple insubordination, but. otherwise would be treated as mutiny. The men remained silent. Alderman Stuart Knill, a staunch Roman Catholic, lias been elected Lord Mayor of London. He refuses to attend the official ceremonies in a Protestant church, but expresses his willingness to appoint a locum tenens. On his making his announcement there was great hooting and uproar and much heckling. Several of the speakers predicted the return of Popery It is reported that henceforth the Household troops are to take part in foreign service. In financial circles in the City it is considered If the dividend tax imposed by ."Sir Graham Be.-ry in Victoria applies to the public debt it virtually closes the English market to colonial loans. The taxing of^auy dividends is strongly resented. Sbpt. 30. — The retaining fee to be pai Watts, the jockey, by " Mr Abington " i only £9,000 for three years. The British and "Foreign Anti-Slavery Association in a memorial to the Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the proposed introduction of Kanaka labor into Queensland declares that the stated safe guards are impossible, and they entreat immediate stoppage of the traffic. The annual report of the London School Board shows that free education has only fractionally increased the attendance of children. (Received October 1, 10.50 a.m.) Arrived : Ship Wellington from Napier (June sth); barque Broomha.ll from Bluff (June 26th). Mr S. Whitbread, Home Ruler, lias been elected for South Hertford by a majority of 24-2 over Colonel Duke, Unionist. Sir C. Tupper, on behalf of the AgentsGeneral, formally congratulated the Marquis of Ripon on his accession to office. The latter promised to co-operate with the colonies in every way. He referred to his long family connection with the Colonial Office, and said he would do his utmost to draw the colonies closer, if possible, to the Mother Country. G. B. J. Cooper, son of a leading Manchester merchant, has confessed that he killed his wife in the Isle of Man in a fit of passion. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. There is but little popular interest over the election of President of the United States. The Russians have released one of the sealers which they seized. There are (signs of Russia's backing down in the matter. Carnegie's armour plating works have been closed, and probably the whole of the works at Homestead will be shut. ■ CAPETOWN, Sept. 30. The elections in Natal show M in favor of responsible governmeut and 10 rgainst. Vienna Sett. 30.— The police believe they have arrested the London "Jack the Ripper " in the person of Alois Sdemerdzki, an Austrian. MEXICO, Sept. 30. The Mexican Government propose reciprocal trade with Canada. SUEZ, Sept. 30. The Powers interested in the canal agree to a reduction in the dues of half a franc per ton from January. NEW YORK, Sept. 29. Owing to the congestion in the Californian fruit districts settlers arc making overtures to Cliafley Bros, to purchase 3000 acres in the Mildura irrigation district in Victoria. TANGIERS, Sjsft. 29. The death of Shereef Wazan will strongly prejudice the French interests in Morocco. ZANZIBAR, Sept. 28. The slave trade is increasing in East Africa. It is stated that the Arabs succeeded in getting 75 per cent, of their captives safely down to the coast. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 29. It is stated that the Tartars at Saratoff have reverted to human sacrifices. A victim's head was partly severed and his heart taken out, while the savages danced round images. VIENNA, Sept. 28. Louis Kossuth demands the productiou of the Austrian law of dynastic succession. He claims that it is a forgery. BERLIN, Sept. 29. The Emperor of Germany has conferred th 9 order of the Red Eagle on the Khedive. BELGRADE, Sept. 28. An armed force of masked men stopped a Liberal meeting at Belgrade. The crisis in Servia is acute. CALCUTTA, Sept. 28. Lockhart's force, numbering five thousand, is now marching in the Black Mountains, and is under orders to destroy Baio, where Hassin Ali has been harbored, but to avoid trouble with the Bonerawals.