BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7012, 26 June 1894, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Prtu Aitociatioiv— Electric Telegraph— OopytigM. LONDON. Junk 22. The colonial produce exhibited at the Cambridge Agricultural Show are only fairly satisfactory, and appear to have been prepared too hurriedly. Some of the wines are muddy, the general exhibits are limited, and are not representative. June 24. — Stoddart has asked Richardson, the Surrey bowler, to join his team for Australia. In reply to a question m the House of Commons, the Hon. Shaw-Lefevre, President of the Local Government Board, said the Government proposed to enquire into the management of the Hackney training school, from which one of the nurses was recently sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for ill-treating children. He added that m the meantime the manager had been suspended. Jyss 25. — The new torpedo destroyer has achieved a speed of 29£ knots on its trial trip, beating those which have preceded it. BELGRADE, June 25. King Alexander of Servia will pay a visit to the Sultan of Turkey. BERLIN, Junk 25. The Kaiser, m the course of a speech at Kiel (the great German naval depdt), recalled the days of Waterloo, when the English and Prussians, fighting shoulder to shoulder, crushed their hereditary foe. CAPETOWN, Junk 25. The Kaikoura sailed for Hobart and New Zealand yesterday.