BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7663, 25 June 1896, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Press Association — Electric Telegraph — Copyright. LONDON. June 24. Captain Younghuaband, in the course of a lecture, stated that in the lust decide the population of India has increased by thirty millions. He advocated the adoption of a system of emigration to tropical parta of Africa in order to absorb this surplus. He expresses himself hopeful that some method will be devised for doveloping the country. Obituary : Professor Prestwich, the eminent geologist, aged 84. ST. PETERSBURG, June 24. High officials are said to be implicated in the mismanagement of the f6te at which there was great loss of life, and the Czar has ordered the enquiry to be stopped. The verdict returned was that the accident was an "act of God," NEW YORK, June 24. Three hundred Gettysburg strikers have been arrested for a breach of contract. The difficulty is supposed to be part of a general movement by foreign influence to organise workers. WASHINGTON, June 23. There is great activiiy in American naval yards preparing for the possibility of service in Cuban waters. OTTAWA, June 24. The following Miniscers have been reelected: °ir Charles Tupper, Huns, Tupp«r (juuv.), Ives, Caron, and flaggart. CARACAS, JuflE 24. Mr Harris was engaged in the construction of a road within the Schomburgk line when ho was arrested by the Venezuelan officials.