BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8052, 30 October 1897, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Press Association — Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright.

LONDON, Oct. 29. lo is. now announced that the funeral of the Duchess of Teck takes place on Wednesday. The issue of the Court circular has been followed by a remarkable manisfestation of sympathy towards the Queen, Duke of Teck, and family. Obituary : Lordßosemead, suddenly. He retired from the position of Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner of South Africa early in the present year owing to ill health. ■> [Lord Rosemead (Sir Hercules Robinson) was Governor of this colony from March 1879 to September 1880.] Sir Rolland Vaughan, one of the Justices of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, lias been appointed to succeed Sir 11. C. Lopes (who recently resigned) as one of Lords Justice of Appeal. Mr Wilson Barrett's theatrical company sailed for Australia in the Oratava. .£750,000 worth of 34 per cent, debentures, issued at par by the Board of the New Zealand Realisation Assets Company, have been issued. Mr Joseph Walton, Liberal, lias been elected by a majority of 2290 for the vacancy for BiU'iisley division, Yorkshire, caused by the succession of Lord Compton to the Peerage. ATHENS, Oct. 29. Two Greek officers are being tried on a charge of permitting a supply of useless torpedoes to the navy. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oot. 20. A deadlock has occurred in the negotiations between Greece and Turkey for the settlement of peace conditions over the question of consular privileges and indemnification of private Turkish losses. MASSOWAH, Oct. 29. Ras Makonue, leader of the Abyssinian raiders, who after his recent defeat by the Somalis organised a force of 20,000 men, is again ravaging Sonialiland. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. The representatives of Russia, America, and Japan have, in connection with the Behring Sea fisheries, recommended a suspension of pelagic sealing, provided Great Britain and Canada will agree. Obituary : Heniy George, the single tax advocate, from apoplexy, brought on by exhaustion and overwork. It was recently announced that Mr George was the nominee elect of the Socialists for- the mayoralty of Greater New York.