BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8420, 20 January 1899, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Electric Tclcgraiili-ropyrijtlit-Unitccl Tress AHSochtion.) LONDON, Jan-. IS. Fifteen labor candidate-, were elected in c Dublin and nine for Cork in connection :, with the urban council elections, tt Frequent interview^ between Mr s Chamberlain, Sir Alfred Milner, and Mr r Cecil Rhodes in London are attracting c attention. At the Bankruptcy Court enquiry into y the all'aiis of the Simpson Lever Chain and ■ I Cycle Company, Horton, a director, said ,I he received from Honlcv and I tucker f ."1(1,(100 paid-up -hares for t'lo,ooo. The s dircctnit, paid Hnoley the value of "JOO.OIIO shares in the Simpson patent. The years a loss amounted to i'liOOO. Sir Horace Tozcr, Agent-General for Queensland, read a paper at the Roy.il Colonial Institute on the progress of Queensland in the last decade. He dwelt upon the security of the public debt of the colony, and said Federal action was desirable in view of the demands for regular shipments of best Australian pioduce by fewer channels, thus preventing unnecessary competition. In view of the demands of New South Wales, he regarded the attainment of Australian Federation as doubtful. The Union Bank of Australia has declared ■! dividend of live per cent, per annum, and carried forward £"29,700. H. M.S. Py lades will be re-commissioned ill February for another term on the Australian station. At a meeting of bishops at Lambeth Palace, it was resolved to promote a reform of ecclesiastical courts in accordance with the report of the Royal Commission of 1883. Jan. If).— The Gordon College fund has reached £1-28,000, of which £100.000 has been subscribed in F.ngland. (Received Jan. 20, 9.10 a.m.) Funds are being raised in London for the establishment of an Anglican Bishopric in Kgpvl to act in co-operation with the Coptic Bishop of Khaitoum. Mr O. H. Murray, Chairman of the Inland Revenue Department, succeeds Mr Wai pole as Secretary of the Post Office. The bank rate of interest has been fixed at 3.J per cent. " (Received Jan. 20, 12.30 p.m.) Eighty -one Sierra Leone lebels have been executed. PARIS, Jan. IS. Le Temps adopts a cool tone in regard to the Czar's conference. Jax. l'J. — Captain Potter, a member of the Bonchamps mission, has been murdered in the Sobat regions. ST. PETERSBURG, Ja.v. 18. The estimate of the Russian War Department shows an increase of thirtylive million roubles for the year. ■STOCKHOLM, Jan. 19. Sweden proposes an experimental mobilisation of her forces. King Oscar, in a speech in theßichsdag, said the Czar's conference did not imply a neglect of necessary defences. (Received Jan. 20, 9 a.m.) CAIRO, Jan. 19. Rasmagascia has concluded a peace treaty with King Menelik. (Received Jan. 20, 9 a.m.) OTTAWA, Jan. 19. The Government of British Columbia have prohibited aliens from placer mining. Americans are dismayed at the prohibition.