BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7662, 22 June 1896, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Press Association — Electric Telegraph — Copyright, LONDON. Junb 19. The Hauraki South Gold Mining Company with a capital of £90,000 of which £50,000 ' is issued, is being offered to the public. The Bishop of London has presented the Bishop of Marlborough with the rectorate of St Botolphs, worth £3000 per year. The action is beiug much criticised, and local protests are being entered agaiust it. A majority of the importers of Australian mutton have arranged with the Biver Plate importers for a minimum price of 2Jd per lb. June 21. — The Powers are urging the Porte to appoint a Christian Governor in Crete and to reaffirm the provisions of the Haleppa Convention. The' Governor of British Guiana has ordered the surveyors not to resist the Venezuelans but to retire. The Cabinet has decided to lighten the Voluntary Schools Bill, and will probably sacrifice the new control clauses. The Agents-General have protested against the compulsory use of the cable code on the ground that it is inadequate and unworkable. . They propose to postpone it for five years. j^~' BERLIN, June 21. The German press is urging the appoint- -' meat of Captain Branders as Governor of Apia. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 21. The Druses have broken ouc in revolt and massacred four companies of soldiers and captured their guns. PRETORIA, June 19. Mr B. De Korte, one of the Judges of the Criminal Court of the Transvaal, suspended by President Kruger, who believed that the Judge was bribed by Mr Lionel Phillips, one • of the reform leaders, has been acquitted on the charge of misconduct, but was censured for conduct unbecoming to a Judge. CAIRO, Juke 19. - The Marquis de Mores and eight of his servants were murdered by his Taureg escort, . ana £40,000 worth of goods were stolen. MADRID, June 21/'"'-"'. Spain is angry at the display of the Cuban flag at the St. Louis Republican convention. In order to be prepared for emergencies the Government is pushing on the completion of five ironclads. PARIS, June 21. The Chamber of Deputies, by a majority of 246, has approved of the annexation of Madagascar. TEHERAN, June 21. The new Shah has proclaimed that post* and dignities in Persia will henceforward be granted to merit alone,- and that tho system of selling them to the man who gave the largest pecuniary presents is abolished. WASHINGTON, June 17, The discontent in the West is increasing on account of the adoption of the gold standard by the Republican party. It is believed that Major McKinley will Bign any finance bill Congress may pass. .