BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Southland Times, Issue 11296, 31 October 1889, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, Oct. 29. Tbe matters in dispute between tbe Albert Dock .Company and the doekmm have been settled on the basis originally laid down, Tbe statement that Lord Wolsoley was to attend the unveiling of the statue to G-c-nerfti Lee at Riabmond, Virginia, U.S., is not confirmed. Princes Victor nnd George of Wales have started on a visit tj E^ypt. Mr Charles Bradlaugb, M.P., leaves for Bombay on 14 h November to recruit his health. . It is reported that tho atrocities in the Island of Cret'i have coased. The London Pn-sB applaud Sir Henry Parkea' utterancea at Brisbane oa tho subject of the fonmtion of a Dominion of Australasia. At a tenants' convention held at Thurlee, County Tippsrary. Mr Thomue Sexten, M,P., presiding, it was decided to make a levy of three p^noa in the pound on the ratable valu6 of holdings. The Australian cruiser Pl.ocaix haa been launched at Glasgow. A fand is being raised for the widow of the late R. A. Proctor, astronomer, lecturer, and author. Mr Steinfiold, formerly President of the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers, onofficially investigated the technological ed ucation systems of America, Germany, and France, bs illustrated at the Paris Exhibition, and considers that that of the United States was superior to those of the Australasian colonies. Terms have been arranged between the miners who were on strike in France and their employers, &ad work has been re, gumed,

To the Emperor William of Germany he Sultan has presented a diamond collar valued at L 40,000. . , It is reported that the Czar will visit the Sultan in the spring, Sobaatopol will be reserved entirely ac a military and naval post and its commerce j removed to Feodosia on the S.E. Coast of c the Crimea. t