BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIL, Issue 7275, 8 May 1895, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Press Association— Electric Tdegrapk—G^pyrigh LONDON, May 7. There is no market for Queensland silk in England unless consignments are held for a time, and the Agent-General of that colony is making inquiries as to the prospect of the sale of cocoons in Milan and Italy. Consols are quoted at 106, which is the highest price on record. Lord Hopetoun declines to discuss Victorian politics until his full term of office has expired. Persistent rumors are current that Mr R. C. Munro Ferguson, M.P. for Leith, will receive a Colonial Governorship. Wilde has been released on bail, his sureties being Lord Douglas and Rev. Steward Hedlatn. ROME, Mat 7. A train carrying the King and Queen of Italy was thrown off the rails at Incisa, in Piedmont, but their Majesties escaped without injury. VIENNA, May 7Count Kalnoky, in a private letter now published, denounced the Papal Nuncio in the strongest terms. M. Bauffy, the Hungarian Premier, declares that he always will maintain that the Vatican has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria. The Emperor has asked both Count Kalnoky and M. Banffy .to withdraw their resignations, and the former replied that the position was untenable. Count Kalnoky, at the request of the Emperor, has decided to retain office.