BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7309, 19 June 1895, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

BERLIN, June 17.

Press Association— Electric Telegraph— Copyright.

LONDON, June 18.

The Marylebone Cricket Club has subscribed two hundred guineas to the Grace National Fund. Fearing the opposition of the Irish party, the Government has withdrawn the vote for the Cromwell statue, which it was proposed to erect outside of Westmiuster. The new Chinese loan will be issued in Paris on the 27th. The Prince of Wale 3 opens the Railway conference on June 26th. The AgentsGeneral will represent the colonies. Messrs Eddy and Carruthers will in addition represent New South Wales and New Zealand. After four days' festivities, nine days will be devoted to business.

PARIS, June 18.

The Czar's Embassy, when presenting President Faure with the Order of St. Andrew, referred to the happy relations existing between France and Russia, but made no allusion, to the alliance.

VIENNA, June 18.

The Austrian Ministry is expected to resign, in consequence of the withdrawal of the support of the German section of Liberals owing to a dispute over the education vote.

BOMBAY, June 18.

Obituary : Lord Colin Campbell.

NEW YORK, June 17.

Jacob's theatre has been destroyed by fire, and the damage is estimated at a quarter of a million dollars.

The French and Russian squadrons met in the Baltic and entered Kiel together.