BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6929, 17 March 1894, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

Pr«»» Agfociation — Electric Telegraph— Copytight LONDON, March 15. It is expected that the Orient and P. and O. Steamship Company will obtain a renewal of the Suez mail service to Australia for three years until the China and India contracts expire. Many intending European exhibitors are applying for space at the Tasmanian Exhibition. M. Carnot, the French President, has expressed himself very favorably disposed towards the Tasmanian Exhibition. Mr H. H. Asquith, Home Secretary, has awarded £200 to the relatives of miners shot down by the military during the Featheraton I riot some time ago, The colonial delegates at present m London have arranged to wait on Lord Bipon, and ask that an Imperial Act may be passed extending the operations of the Act of 1873, enabling all British colonies to conclude reciprocal relations with each other. The delegates are to discuss the desirability of renouncing the Zollverein and Belgian treaties, but no decision was arrived at, the meeting holding that the proposal had no direct connection with the previous question. Judgment will be given upon the application of the Loan and Mercantile Company to rescind the order for examination on Monday. Mr and Mrs Zierenberg, of the St. James Home for Inebriates, have been acquitted on a charge of perjury m connection with their recent action for libel against Mr Labouchere, of Truth, It is reported from Sardinia that an Englishman and his sister were attacked by brigands, the horses being shot under them, but eventfully they succeeded m making their escape. WASHINGTON, March 16. The Senate has passed the seignorage silver coinage proposals by 44 votes to 31.

[Specials to Press Association.] Paris, March 11. —The French press pub'ish telegrams to the effect that 500 Chinese soldiers have invaded the Upper Mekong and seized Luang Prabang, m the district which is to form the buffer State between the. British and French possessions m the East. Hong Kong, March 11.— Coreau rebels had formed a plot to blow up the King and his Minister*. Nearly 1000 have been arrested. Brussels, March 13.— The Belgian Government is buying up the frotier railways, with a view to enabling rapid mobilisation.