BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7062, 23 August 1894, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

fr«M AmotUHam—MUttfU 7W«rrark-CwOM LONDON, August 19. Miss Kate Marsden, in rcpljing to the charges of dishonesty and othsr serious offenoM, has published th« reports of the St. Petersburg Leper Fond Committee, which completely exonerate her. Mr Alexander Francis, Secretary ef the Committee of Investigation, however, complains that the report was withdrawn, and a fall enauiry convinced the oommittee of the troth of the charges. Three large cruisers for Russia are being built in English shipyards. Auoror 21. -Merchant* state that it is necessary to sell 100,000 cases of Irish and English batter, before the new season's Australiao batUr oan be touched, and it is feared that low prices will prerail till November. Acocst 22.— The Daily Chronicle publishes a despatch from Benria. stating that King Alexander is about to abdicate. The obstruction of supply in the House of Commons oontinuea, to* malcontent* demanding thai the Government shall make known what coarse they intend to Uk«t with respect to the repeated rejection of Government measures by the House of Lords. Mr Morley deprecated raising a question of such magnitude on a trumpery side issue. Mr P. A, Change, M.P. for Kilkenny, ba« resigned owing to a quarrel among the Irish members. ROME, Avuvsr 21. The Italian Government has arranged for 6000 Sicilians to emigrate to Massowah, on the Red Sea. They will receive grants of land. WASHINGTON, Attest 22. Bir J. Pauncefot*, British Ambassador, and Secretary Gresham have arranged that 000,000 dollars compensation shall b« paid to Canadian sealers under award of the Bearing B*a Commission. ST. PETERSBURG, Aco. 2X| | Tbe orders for the great military mmtafTM which were to have taken plan at Stnolemk hare been «Mn(*nn«ii«W, owing to the ilia*** cf the C/ar. who is suffering from an attack of influenza.