British and Foreign Telegrams

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8758, 21 April 1890, Page 2

British and Foreign Telegrams

By Electric Telegraph. — United Press Association Copyright — Received 2V,4\QO —S. 30 p.m.

PONSONBY hv'ICTIONS

London, April 19. The evictions on the Ponsonby estate are proceeding quietly. BEHRINGS SB\ FISHBUY DISPUTE. It is expected that the Jiehrings Sea fishery dispute will be amicably settled on the lines suggested by the Canadian delegates. DILKS STILL KEEPS OUT OT POLITIC •«. Sir C. Dilke has declined to contest the Kensington seat. PRINCE GKORGE. Prince George has been gazetted to H.M.S. Thrush. STANLEY TO BE DEOORATKI). It is thought probable that Stanley will be naturalised and decorated. OOEAN POSTAL REDUCTIONS. The colonial officials are in favour of the postal reduction to tho colonies. There is an impression that New South Wales will accept the reduction, but that the other colonies will decline it. LOBD ORANLEY ARRIVED HOMK. Lord Cranley, son of Lord Onslow, has arrived here to begin his education at Eton. OONGO LOAN ABANDONED. Brussels, April 19. The Government have abandoned the Congo loan. LODIbE MICHEL AND DYNAMITE. Paris, April 19. A meeting of anarchists at the house of Louise Michel insisted that dynamite was essential to the attainment of their objects. This sentiment was received j with applause. GERMAN POLITIOB. Berlin, j April 19. The press is favourable to General von Caprivi. The Reichstag will probably discuss the question of a general di>armament. The Chancellor in his speech said it was essential to utilise the unofficial press for the purpose of influencing foreign opinion, and it would be impossible to disavow any statements which it was found desirable to publish in the Gazette. RUSSIAN OFFICER SELLING PLANS

OP CRONSTaDT.

St. Petersburg, April 19.

Herr Plessen, a German naval attache, has been found buying plans of Cronstadt from a traitorous officer. Plessen left hurriedly from St. Petersburg, and

the traitor has been arrested.

RICT AMONG ROSSIAN MINICRB. Warsaw, April 19.

A conflict has taken place between the miners on strike at TVilkowitzi and the military. (50 were arrested and f5 killed. At the prison the prisoners attacked the sentinels, and 20 escaped in the excitement.

BOSSJNG JEWS' HOU EB.

Cracow, April 19.

The anti-Sematic plot has resulted in 130 Jewish houses at Sandec, Galicia, being burned.

MAJOK PINTO'S ABRIV.IL.

Lisdon, April 19. Major Pinto has arrivod at Cape Verde Islands.

EMIN AS GKRMANT TRAOKB

Zanzibar, April 19.

Eniin, with 1000 followers, opens trading station^ on the great central African lakes in the German interest. AS TIER OF STANLEY'S RNKMIEI.

Father Schintze, one of the sick missionaries who Stanley rescued and safely conducted here from Ikungu, on his return from Lake Victoria, has published a pamphlet declaring that Stanley's real object in entering the equatorial provinces was to utilise Emm Pasha's force to conquer those proTinces for England and to secure an outlet at Momhassa.

OLKVKLAND ILL.

New York, April 19. It is reported here that ex-President Cleveland is ill.