BRITISH A FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8056, 3 November 1897, Page 2

BRITISH A FOREIGN.

Pro-s Association— lA lcctrio Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 2. A parcels post convention between Australia and France will bo signed shortly. The interment of the remains of the late Lord Rosmead took place at Brompton cemetery. Wreaths wore placed on the coffin on behalf of the Governments of New Zealand and Cape Colony. Amongst a large and distinguished gathering who attended were several ex-Governors and officials of South Africa and the colonies, representatives of the Colonial Office, and the Agents-General of Victoria and Queensland. In the municipal elections just completed the Liberals gained 65 and the Conservatives 31 seats. In the course of a speech at Manchester Lord Rosebery said Mr Chamberlain's proposal of an Imperial zollverein would make the Empire odious to working men and imperil colonial trade. The preference would excite the hostility of the whole world. Arrived : s.s. Perthshire. Obituaries : Lieut. -Colonel Chard, one of the heroes of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu campaign in 1878, .-etat 50; Sir Rutherford Alcock, the distinguished physician, aged 88. The business of Patterson, Laing and Company, warehousemen of Melbourne, has been purchased by Mr J. M. Bruce, of Melbourne, as from July 3. He is forming tho business into a limited liability company with a capital of £325,000 in shares and £85,000 in debentures. Air Bruce will be chairman and managing director of the company. Wheat at Mark Lane is quoted Is dearer for the week. Australian butter is at 100s per i:\vt. A few of the choicest parcels brought KM*. PARIS, Nov. 2. The Dcbats expresses an opinion that the Anglo-French Niger Commission will prove rcsultful of federation. The Government are pnniding a naval grant from a number of .State properties. BRUSSELS, Nov. 2. The Belgian miners have rejected a motion for a general strike, but resolved not to work extra hours. PERKIN, Nov. 2. The Russian Minister at Seoul, the capital of Corea, compelled the Corean Government to dismiss their English financial adviser, also the chief of Customs, and to appoint Russian officials in their places. PRETORIA, Nov. 2. PresidentKruger, adressing the Volksraad, spoke strongly against the abolition of the dynamite concession. CARACAS Nov. 2. A revolutionary plot has been discovered, which was intended to prevent the meeting of Congress. Five hundred persons have been arrested in connection with it. ST. JOHNS, Nov. 2. At a result of tho Newfoundland elections Sir Wm. White-way's Government has been completely defeated.