BRITISH & FOREIGN.
Press Association— Electric Telegrapli— Copyright, LONDON, June 4.
The Scotsman advises British Ministers not to assist the Victorian Government to found a State Bank, as the effect would be to injure existing institutions. The New York correspondent of the Daily News reports that the free silver agitation is declining in the south and west.
VIENNA, June 4
The Austrian Reform Bill grauts small taxpayers 34 seats in the Reichsrath and the working class 13. It is uob believed that this concession will satisfy the popular demands.
WASHINGTON, June 4.
The sparks from a locomotive started forest fires in the oil fields in North Pennsylvania. Several million dollars of damage has been done, and it is feared many lives have been lost.
CAPETOWN, June 4,
A party of explorers who have been "trekking" iv the north report the discovery of some splendid fertile country beyond the Kalahari desert, excelling the Transvaal in suitability for settlement.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7298, 5 June 1895, Page 2
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