ENGLISH and FOREIGN.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 6, Issue 51, 28 June 1895, Page 2

ENGLISH and FOREIGN.

NELSON BROS

London, June 25. Messrs Nelson Brothers propose to transfer their English business to a Colonial Distribution Company. The first issue of capital will be £300,000. DISCONTENT IN TURKEY. Sofia, June 25. It is reported here that a revolution has begun in Macedonia, and that several collisions have taken place with the Turkish soldiers. June 26. The rebellion in Macedonia is spreading. Numerous bands, armed with Mareinis, are attacking the Turkish soldiers. Three cartloads of bodies of the latter have arrived at Palauka. Constantinople, Tune 26. As Turkey resents the desire of Bulgaria to interfere in Macedonia, the latter has recalled the Envoy from Constantinople. The position is critical. STREET FIGHTING. London, June 25. Desperate street fighting took place in Cork yesterday, between the followers of Messrs Dillon and Redmond. Many persons were injured, and several houses wrecked. The police had the greatest difficulty in quelling the riot. CHINESE WAR LOAN. London, June 25. The Pall Mall Gazette states that in April China gave a London Bank the option of arranging the indemnity loan, receiving an immediate advance of £1, 000,000, and therefore she hesitates to ratify the RussoChinese loan. PLOTTING STUDENTS. Constantinople, June 25. Students here have been found plotting against the life of the Sultan, and thirty arrests have been made. EXECUTIONS. Vienna, June 25. Three non-commissioned officers and ten Hussars have been shot at Prozemigst, Galicia, on a charge of murdering an Austrian sergeant. Eleven others concerned in the crime were sentenced to penal servitude for life. FORTIFYING COREA. London,June 26. It is rumoured in Tiensing that Japan is fortifying the Corean frontier, FRANCE AND CHINA. London, June 26. China has concluded the Covention defining the Northern bonundary of the French possessions in the Indo-Chinese Peninsula, making French and Chinese territory contiguous from the Mekong to Laokai. France thus absorbs the territory required to constitute the buffer state which is supposed to be set up between the French and English possessions. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. London,June 26. The New Zealand Midland Railway Company has convened a meeting of the bondholders to protest against the action of the New Zealand Government in resorting to Courts.