BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1723, 9 April 1895, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Per Electric Telegraph- -Cop yright. Per Press Association. THE. ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.: London, April 7. - The Pall Mall Gazette states _ that the Sultan of Turkey has invited its editor to proceed to Armenia as an independent Commissioner in connection with the enquiry into' the; recent atrocities. 1 CHURCH AID. . YLcrds.Selb6rne,Ci*osß and Egerton are appealingfor £20,000 to maintain Church Defence Committees in every parish in England. OSCAR WILDE. ! Oscar Wilde was remanded till Thursday, bail not being allowed. APPEAL FROM THE POPE. The Pope will issue an appeal at Easter, urging the Protestants of England to favour union with the Roman Catholic Church. ; A EIENDISH: CRIME. The Clbhmel Bench committed fpr trial nine residents of Bally valpa for the. murder of Bridget Cleary. The unfortunate woman was roasted over a fire in order to extort the admission that she was a witch; The husband, father, aunts, and cousins of the victim are implicated in the crime. THE RIMUTAKA. The Rimutaka left London yesterday for Wellington arid Lytteltori. THE LOCAL VETO BILL. Sir William Vernon Harcourt states that the Local Veto Bill will not apply to Ireland. PERSONAL. April 8. Lord William Beresford is betrothed to the Duchess of Marlborough. JABEZ BALFOUR; Buenos Ayres, April 8. Jabez Balfour has sailed for England in custody to answer the charges in connection with the Liberator Building Society and other institutions with which he was connected. TERRIBLE ACCIDENTSt. Petersburg, April 7. A hotel building which was being constructed in Nijni Novgorod collapsed, thirty workmen being buried beneath the debris. Sixteen of the number were killed. : PERSONAL. Rome, April 7. The Pope has appointed Father Gallagher coadjutor to the Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales. ; A GOVERNOR IN DISGRACE. Berlin, April 7. Leist, Governor of the Cameroons, ' who was charged with ill-treating native women, has been dismissed from the service of the German Government. THE WILDE CASE. Paris, April 7. Parisian society is petrified at Wilde's , exposure. _ Special to Press Association. London, April 6. i The warrant for the arrest of Oscar Wilde was issued at the instance of the Treasury. Although Wilde's name; has been removed from the playbills, the companies continue to play his pieces for the present. Wilde, in his letter to the press explaining his reason for abandoning his case, states that he ie willing to bear the ignominy in order, to avoid calling Lord Douglas to give evidence against his father, but he says that the son was eager and quite willing to enter the box.. PERSONAL. Lord Lytton sailed by the Orotava for Australia. THE IRISH LAND BILL. The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour declares that the Irish Land Bill is destined to ferment perpetual disorder in Ireland. THE FRENCH PRESS. April?. The Paris correspondent of the Times suggests that, in -view- of the attacks in the press, England should provide her Embassies with funds in order to enable them to exert influence in the same way that France and Other nations do. EGYPT, Lord ■ Cromer reports that the fall in the prices' of produce has cost Egypt £3,000,000 per annum for the last twelve years, and checked the wave of prosperity that set in with English occ-upa. tion. The surplus for 1895 is estimated at £660,000. INCOME TAX. . Washington, April 6; In reply "to the application, of President Cleveland* the . Supreme -.Court holds that the Constitution prevents the levying of an income tax. A FOOLISH SENATOR. April 7. Senator Frye said that the Republicans of America must not allow others to intervene in Hawaii, Satnoa and Pago Pago. When Canada was ready to join the Union, America would promptly seize it even if England declared war. FRANCE AND -ENGLAND. Paris. April 7. "M... Hanotaux said that France, desiring to maintain the rights of the Sultan and the Khedive, asked Britain to de. fine her precise claims on the Upper Nile. Instead of using the phrase "Egyptian and British spheres," they must say where Egypt ends. France would not assent to uuknown conditions. Upon receiving his demand, England immediately stopped negotiations. Annexation on the Upper Nile, jso far as England was concerned, was ! merely on paper, and her agreement with Zanzibar infringed French rights. France ■ would not permit tho Royal Niger Com-

pany to monopolise the country and coerce outsiders. CENTRAL "AMERICA. New York, April 7. Reports have been published here to the effect that Nicaragua is secretly urging the Central American Republics to form an alliance against Great Britain. THE SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY. Capetown, April 7. V Mr Rhodes considers that with the increase of the white population in Rhodesia,the South Afri. _.; Company will soon have to face the demand for self-govern-ment or federation with the Gape. ; OBITUARY. U ";y< ''„, St. Petersburg,, April 7. >I. Vistinegradßky, formerly Minister of Finance. .