BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6542, 8 December 1892, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

\_Prcts Association — Electric Telegraph — Copyright.] LONDON, Dec. 6. Fifteen hundred delegates will be present to-morrow at the conference to consider the best means of dealing with the agricultural depression. Mr Justice Collins has fined Sir Henry Titchborne, High Sheriff, five hundred ;' guineas for beiue absent from the Winchester As3izes. He is shooting in Africaf. • ,- The Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation Commission in East Africa has failed.

Lord Brassey explains that his station in Western Australia is at present unfit as a settlement for General Booth's over-sea colony. Sir S. Samuel has withdrawn the rest of the New South Wales Treasury bills.

The New Zealand Land Association has shipped twenty-eight Lincoln rams to th« Waikato.

The Australian cricketers will play four matches against All England, at Nottingham on June 26, Lords on July 2, at the Oval on August 14, and at Manchester on August 24.

Deo. 7. — Unconfirmed rumors of ft mercantile crisis in Melbourne and Sydney have greatly disturbed tht city. Canadian athletes are making objections to Americans being allowed to compete in the Pan-Britannic contests. Mr Astley Cooper, the original promoter of the competitions, proposes that the winners of British and colonial contests should com* pete against Americans. In the event of failure of the Monetary Conference it is expected that the Indian Currency Commission will propose a gold standard for India, or the eastern mints will suspend the purchase of silver. Obituary : Dr. Werner Siemens, the wellknown electrician of Hanover, aetat 76 ; also Fred Leslie, the Gaiety actor of London. It is supposed that the fall in Broken Hill stock was brought About in Sydney and Melbourne owing to one of the Melbourne banks throwing upon the market a larg« number of shares in the Proprietary mine. BRUSSELS, Dec. 7. At the Monetary Conference Mr Wilson, of Freeinantle, Western Australia, asserted that the British policy was one of monometallism pure and simple, and therefore hs was iinablc to support either the Chairman or Baron Rothschild in their proposals. Owing to the opposition of the American delegates, Baron Rothschild has withdrawn his proposal respecting the annual purchase of silver. Sir W. H. Holdsworth, one of the British represcntativus, has submitted a scheme for forming a Bi-metallic Union. CAIRO, Djbu. 7. The Mahdi has sent a force to attack Kassala and reinforced Osman Digna, who is supposed to be meditating an attack on Tokar. PARIS, Dec. 7. The Panama committee has elicted facts showing that Reinach applied large sums of the Canal Company's money to the paymenb of his own debts. CALCUTTA, Dec. 7. The Chritral tribesmen attacked the Cashmere regiment in the British camp at Gor, but were ropulsed with tho loss of fifty and pursued for miles. CAPETOWN, Drc. 6. The Tongariro left to-day for Hobarfc and Wellington.