BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7665, 27 June 1896, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

♦— Press Association -Electric Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, June 25. Mr H. M. Stanloy is in a critical condition. He is suffering from gastritis. June 26. — The P.iris correspondent of the Times states that. Russia proposes to demand the neutrality of Egypt under European concert. Mr Goschen, in reply to a question, explained that the explosion on H.M.S. Blake was caused by shortuoss of water in the boiler. News has been received that Andree, a Swedish aeronaut, has reached Spitzbergen, a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean northwest of Nova Zembla. Obituary : Due de Nemoros, an Orleans princess. Mr Trentwith, formerly a leader of the labor party in Victoria, who wag suffering from cataract in the eye has been operated upon by ))r Nettleship. The operation is regarded as perfectly satisfactory. BERLIN.'June 26. The National Zeitung declares that if Great Britain ignores the demands of Dr Leyds, Secretary of State for Transvaal, for the prosecution of Mr Cecil Rhodes, the independence of Transvaal will be inevitable. It considers the trial of Dr Jamicson and his officers a farce. ROME, June 25. ; The French are negotiating with Turkey to secure Ghadames, in Tripoli, near the southern boundary. The Italian Government is alarmed. WASHINGTON, June 26. | Sir J. Paunceforte has asked the Secretary of Stale to secure the release of Mr Harrison, ' the British official who was arrested by the Venezuelans. ONTARIO, June 26. Mr Laurier is forming a Ministry in i Quebpc. A measure providing for the rei vision of the tariff will be the first brought down.