BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6987, 28 May 1894, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

PreuAuoetaiUm—XltetHe Ttlegraph-ConrigM. LONDON. May 24. Dean Vaughan is resigning the Mastership of the Temple owing to sickness. The Indian Government is issuing £3,000,000 worth of 3 per cent stock. ,A.b a meeting of shareholders in the British Broken Hill Company the chairman said that owing to mistakes in the management the accounts for the .half-year ended 31st December k showedalossof£7ooo. The accounts for the present year, so far as it had gone, showed a profit of £1500. Sir William Harcourt, in reply to Sir G. Baden Powell's remarks on estate duties, said he saw no necessity to table a motion opposing the levy of such duties on properties outside Great Britain. The colonial estate duty did not apply to countries under other sovereigns. Lord Rosebery, in his speech at Birmingham, referred to the dissension in his party, and said that if Liberals did not trust the Government it would be better to elect it, as he declined to remain there on suffrage. - Mr Stewart, official receiver, is asking that the old directors of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. be ordered to refund the amount of dividends paid ont of capital. Mr Justice Williams approves. The Times asserts that the treaty with Belgium secures to the British control of the Upper Nile, thus giving an unbroken line of communication throughout the length ef Africa, and that it will also tend to check French advance in the Congo district. The Times' Paris~correspondent wires that M. Perrier has resolved to lead a party to assist the Socialists, with a view, he says, of saving the country from a downward course. Truth considers Sir Astley Cooper's PanBritanic proposals all froth, and declares that Sir Astley Cooper takes credit to himself for visits of cricketers and other colonial athletes. The death is announced of Professor Geo. F. Romaneo, the celebrated biologist, an enthusiastic disciple of Darwin. May 26. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, whose health for some time past has caused grave anxiety to his friends, is mending, and every hope of his ultimate recovery is entertained. The House of Commons by a majority of 127 agreed to the measure providing that election expenses be paid from rates. The Irish members have notified the Secretary for Ireland that they will oppose the Irish Education Bill at all stages, owing to the omission of a olause recognising the Christian Brothers. News has been received that the Cape Parliament has sanctioned the annexation of Pondoland. PARIS, May 24. Owing to the political crisis there has been, a fall on the Bourse. BERLIN, Mat 26. A thousand iron bottles and a large gasholder exploded in a hydrogen store attached to the bafieoning barracks, in Berlin. BELGRADE, May 26. The Radical Judges have been dismissed from office, and it is expected that a state of siege will shortly be declared in the capital, CAIRO, May 26. The coal workers in Port Said attacked the employers' offices. The police, however, succeeded in dispersing the rioters, but had to use their bayonets. France appears to be very jealous at a number of British bluejackets having been landed, and has ordered some of her Mediterranean fleet to Port Said. ZANZIBAR, May 26. British forces in Nyassa district routed Makangira, a noted slave dealer, and killed one hundred of his followers. WASHINGTON, May 23. The State of Wyoming is sending wool to England. This is the first time it has been imported from the United States. The Pan-American Bimetallic Association has asked Congress to fix the rate of gold and silver at 7 to 1. May 26. The Senate will accept a Democratic com* I promise respecting the Tariff Bill, and it is expected that the measure will pass into law on June 20th. A committee appointed to enquire into alleged bribery regarding the tariff by members of the sugar trust has submitted a report, in which it exonerates the members of the Senate and also capitalists of theeharge of offering bribes. A reign of terror has been caused in several coal districts where the men are on strike. In Cripple Creek, in Colorado, the strikers dropped one hundred pounds of powder with a lighted fuse down the shaft, and the explosion killed eleven firemen working in the mine. NEW YORK, May 24. The floods in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, have rendered 10,000 people homeless. HONG KONG, May 24. Rioters have murdered the Provisional Governor and forty clerks near SeouL The Chinese troops appeared on the scene of the disorder, and killed about 100 of the rioters. ! BUENOS AYRES, May 24.