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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9541, 7 November 1892, Page 2

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ALEXANDER'S BANKRUPTCY. London, November 0. Alexander's gross liabilities amount to £383,000. The dobtor made no proposals, and the estate was ordered to be wound up in the usual way. Mr James Ford was appointed trustee with the assistance of a committee composed cf Messrs P. S. Vanderbyl, Arnold, and Jas. Whittall.

GETTING TIRED OF IT The meeting of tho unemployed in Trafalgar Square was a fizzle, barely

three hundred were present, and they were mostly social democrats. There was no disorder. Motions were carried calling on tho Government to provide work and hold a special session to discuss the unemployed question. Most effective measures had been taken by the police in case of disturbance, a large reserve of constables having been secretly stationed in adjacent streets.

MRS BUXTONS DEATH. Mi's Bnxton's death was caused by an overdose of chloroform.

LOCK-OUT IN COTTON MILLS. The cotlon lock-out in Lancashire has begun. Fourteen out of forty-iour million spindles arc effected, and sixty thousand operatives will bo idle. WRECK OF THE HOWE H.M S. Seahorse has left Portsmouth to assist H.M.S. Howe.

PERCfcVAL ON LABOUR QUESTION. Mr Porcival, speaking at tho Working Men's College, London, said that labour legislation in N.Z. had been chiefly directed towards the prevention of sweating. He denied tint labour members legislated for the working c!ass solely. On the contrary their efforts were directed to the nnited benefit of ail classes, and

heuce their success so far.

DEATH OF M. HfiRVE. Paris, November 0. M. Hervc died of a fit, induced by perusal of an adverse criticism. IRISH RELIEF FUND RELEASED. A Paris banker states that Presi-

de it Carnot has released the Irish fund without judicial sanction. SALVATIONISTS EXPELLED FROM SWITZERLAND. Beune, November 5. " Colonel " Clibborn and his wife, of the Salvation Army, have been expelled from Switzerland, after being imprisoned for a night.

BISMARCK ON RUSSIAN QUESTION. Berlin, November 5. Interviewers continue to publish Prince Bismarck's vicious attacks on the high officers of State, He asserts that English gold is being used to stimulate Russian hostility to Germany.

Tno Kreuz Zietung lament? the spectacle of a great past being lost to all sense of patriotic restraint. Nearly all other German press censuro the Prince and some urges the Emperor to proceed against him for breach of military discipline and violation of state secrecy.

EMPEROR ANNOYED AT BISMARCK'S ATTITUDE. The Emperor is much annoyed at Bismarck's attitude, but refuses to t?ke action. lie alleges when the Prince was in power, he prepared a similar measure though increasing the cost by 120 million marks. OSMAN PASHA NEAR SUAKIM. Caip.o, November 5. Osman Pasha with .",000 followers is encamped near Suakim. Colonels Kitchener and Wingato, withasquadron of cavalry, have gone to Suakim to prevent their approach.

STOPPAGE OF RAILWAYS IN MOROCCO. Tangier, November G. Tho Sultan of Morocco has cancelled the concession granted to the French to

build the Morocco-Algerian Frontier Eailway, and there is a deadlock in consequence.

CHARGE OF TORTURING A PKIVATE. Washington, November G. The Court acquitted the officers who were accused of torturing private James by hanging him up by the thumbs at Homestead. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The Democrats claim that Cleveland is elected, having secured 211 votes, composed of a solid South vote, New York, "Now Jersey, Conne.Hicntt, Wisconsin, with six Michigan vote 3. The

Ilepublicans have collected two million do'lurs, and tho Democrats 2,000,000 dollars, for election expenses. Forty-five thousand business men paraded New York in support of Mr Cleveland.