BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9171, 13 June 1901, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

» (Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright— United Press ASBOoiation.) LONDON, June 12. By an explosion aboard the torpedodestroyer baring at Portsmouth, one stoker was killed and four fearfully injured. At the Lincoln race meeting the Lincoln Handicap resulted as follows : Goosander 1, Ichbian 2, Sailor Boy 3. In the House of Commons the Government, by a majority of 33, secured the remaining time of the session, excepting Wednesday, for Government business. Maclaren. takes a team to Australia. Maclaren's cricket team will include Lilley, Jessop, and Hayward. (Received June 13. 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. In the House of Commons, Mr John Redmond taunted the Government with allowing the Irish Land Purchase Bill to disappear from their,- programme. He hoped that events m Ireland would during the year convince the Government that they must deal seriously with the land question. Mr John Lowles, Conservative candidate, who was unsuccessful at the generar election at the contest at Haggerston, recovered £750 damages from Mr W. R. Cremer, the successful Liberal candidate, on account of a libel published during the election contest with reference to. company promotion. At a fire at Vickers and Sons' Maxims Shipbuilding Yards at Barrow-on-Furness the sheathing of the cruiser Euraylus was greatly damaged, and some plates buckled. The Parisian papers Journals de Debats and Figaro, referring to the King's reception of the Moorish envoys, state that the Morocco question is closed unless fresh incidents arise. In the House of Commons, Mr Balfour announced that the Government intends to press forwaad the Finance, Loan, Rating, Education, and Factory Bills. Sir H. Campbell Bannerman announced that the Education Bill would be seriously opposed. I NEW YORK, June 12.. | The Nationalist party m Cuba is very active, and is threatening to resist the Cuban policy of the American Government. With a view of silencing rumors prejudicial to State affairs, President McKinley emphatically declares that he will not accept an offer of candidature for a third term as President. His sole ambition is, he states, to serve a second term acceptably. Mrs McKinley is now out of danger. BERLIN, June 12. The Federal Council has sanctioned the prolongation until further notice of the favored nation treatment to Britain and her colonies, excepting Canada. MADRID, June 12. Christiana, Queen-Regent of Spain, m opening the Cortes, announced a proposed army, monetary circulation, municipal and'other reforms, suppression of certain religious orders, and the reduction of the number of bishops' sees, the proceeds therefrom to be devoted to paying country clergy. She appealed to the wisdom and union of the nation on the ere of King Alfonso's reign.