BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8416, 16 January 1899, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

» (Electric Telegraph— Copyright— United Pro3a Association.) LONDON. Jan. 13. Mr G. Ruthveu Sclimitc, the newlyappointed Administrator of Now* Guinea, lias left Eugland to take up his appointment. He is accompanied l>y Captain Barton and Hon. K. Murray, wlio form hi 3 personal staff. The now Orient steamer Omr.iti has Undergone a prolonged speed trial. While two-thirds laden she attained a speed of eovontcen and a half knots with a substantial reserve power. The funds received by the trades unions of Great Britain during the past six years amounted to £9,±20,G20, of which £1,552,446 has been absorbed in woiking expenses. The National Rifle Association has decided to reduce the bull's-eye for the two hundred yards target seven inches and the inner sixteen inches for the llisley meetings. Sir' David Chalmers, formerly Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, has concluded an inquiry into the recent insurrection amongst the natives at Sierra Leone, arising out of the imposition of the hut tax, during which a number of whites were killed. One hundred and fifty-one of the rebels were sentenced to death, but in httlf the caaea the capital sentence will probably be commuted. J,\h. 15. — The Oceanic, a new White Star liner, lias been hunched at Belfast. She Is the largest vessel afloat. Mr Cecil Rhodes, who is at present in London, asks for an Imperial guarantee of two millions for n railway between liulawayo and Tanganyika. Leather : Australian best heavy is at Bid. OTTAWA, Jan. 13. The American?} are availing themselves of the Canadian penny postage scheme hy sanding lottos in bulk to Canada for posting to Great Britain and (he colonies, l',v this means a saving of llirce-lifths of the present cost of postage of a letter from America is "ji'tVeted. PARIS, .lax. 14. An estimate presented to the i'Yonch Chamber of Deputies shows that the estimated expenditure isi'l t0.000,000 sterling, and the national debt is £1,400,000,000 i-'.erling, COPENHAGEN, Jan. 15. In 1900 an expedition will he despatched from Copenhagen to search Rialein Greenland for Andrce. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. Obituary s Mr Dinglev, of tariff fame. CONSTANTINOPLE Jan. 15. Obituary : Nubur Pasha, an able Egyppiiui statesman, who played an important part in the administration of Egypt from 1549 to ] SSS. (ReceivedJ.in l(i, 11 a.m.) CAIRO, Jan. 15. Ras Mang.iscia, an Abyssinian chief, has repulied-sevcial attacks by the tjhoau chief Ras Jlakouncn, who recently raided Somalilaud.