BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6899, 10 February 1894, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

Prti* Atiociation— Electric Telegraph— OopyrgM. LONDON, Feb 8. llie Aorangi arrived at Plymouth yester day with her meat m good condition. Feb. 9.— Arrived: ss. Star of Victoria from Wellington ; barque Duuard from Port Chalmers ; and ship Cape of Good Hope from Lyttelton. The London and North Western District Bank has suspended payment. MrGladstone assured a French interviewer that he had no idea of resigning and was determined to preserve the democratic programme, despite the opposition of the House of Lords In the House of Lords the Parish Councils Bills passed through Committee. The import of colonial butter up to Feb. Ist was 3,000 tons m excess of last year. The imports from the Contineut decreased 800 tons. BERLIN, Feb. 0. The feeling m Germany m faver of a commercial treaty with Russia is increasing. Agrarian opposition m the Reichstag proved unavailing. Twenty-five rebel soldiers were hanged m the Cameroons. The German press demand a recall of the governor. MADRID, Feb. 9. The Sultan of Morocco pleads inability to pay the indemnity demanded by Spain for the attacks by Riffs at Melilla. ROME, Feb. 9. The relations between the Czar and the Pope are strained m consequence of thesiiersecution of Russian Catholics. PARIS, Feb. 9. The French Government has (riven an order for the construction of nineteen new torpedo boats of modern type. The work is to be taken m hand immediately. . M. Pasteur has offered an Australian syndicate the sole rights for Australia to his process of curing anthrax m sheep for the sum of £15,000. CAPETOWN, Feb 8. The Kaikoura has arrived here. The fire which occurred on the voyage to Teneriffe broke out m No. 5 bold. A portion of the cargo for Auckland and Lyttelton is damaged. Six hundred packages will be returned. to London, while the remainder will be forwarded to the colony by the Kaikoura and Ruapehu. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. The Senate has adopted the Federal Elections Bill, which is intended as a safeguard against corruption. The Democratic Finance Committee of the Sonate are preparing radical changes m the tariff with a view to securing the revenue by five classes of ad valorem and ouly a small free list. HALIFAX, Fei» 9. The House of Assembly m Nova Scotia has addressed a petition to the Queen asking for power to abolish the Legislative Assembly RIO DE JANIERO, Feb. 9. A plot has been discovered to murder President Peixoto. Several persons were arrested and shot on the spot. VALPARAISO, Feb. 9. Santiago, the capital of Chili, is m a state of siege. Many friends of the dead President Balmaceda have been arrested.