BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIL, Issue 7274, 7 May 1895, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Press Association— Electric Telegrapltr—Copyrujli LONDON, May 4/ The s.s. Ruapehu has lefc London for Wellington and Lyttelton. Oscar Wilde was admitted to bail, himself in £2500 and two sureties of £1250 each. May 6.— Obituary : Earl of Selbourne. The report of the Opium Commission vif-h regard to the traffic in India is decided :>• adverse to any interference with the in> portation of the drug, and declares that the agitation in England is due to overdrawn pictures as to its effects. - ' Forty thousand people attended the Eight Hours Demonstration in Hyde Park, which is a decrease in numbers as compared with former years. Mr Burns met with a mixed ' reception. The Hon. Mr Ward will be entertained at a banquet on the 21st insb. t VIENNA, May 5. Count Kalnoky has resigned owing to: jM. Bauffy, the Hungarian Premier, having prematurely stated that the former had protested to the Italian Government" against the action of the Papal Nuncio, in Vienna, fostering a clerical agitation against the Hungarian Government. May .6.- M. Bauffy explains that he forwarded to Vienna the draft of apro« test, as he supposed Count Kalnoky would keep his promise, privately made, and forward it to the Vatican. Count Kalnoky, objecting to the tone of the protest, and being desirous of supporting the priests, retained it. The Vienna press reproach the Vatican forcausing perpetual troubles. \ OTTAWA, May 5. The Canadian deficit amounts to 4| million dollars. The Government propose a duty of a half-cent per pound on raw sugar. ,