CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5211, 19 March 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

0, TBT ILBOIBIO TBLBQRAPB—COPYBIQR'I S- : [Spbciai. to Peess Association.] e > j THE BRITISH ARMY. y> f LONDON, March 17. *' : Speaking in the House of Common * ■ Mr Campbell Bannerman, Secretar d of State for the War Departmem | said that it was his intention shortl '■> • to withdraw a battalion from Egyp » ; to strengthen tho forces at the Capi * i and Mauritius. Ho remarked tba c * the croaking recently indulged it about the state of the British Arm] ■ was unjustified, and ho thought th< * best policy was to leave well alone. SAMOA. . • March 18. The Daily Chronicle, commenting on a poßthumoua letter of Mr R. L. Stevenson on Samoan affairs, expresses a hope that the Government will be induced to mitigate the rigorous treatment meted oat to Mafaafa. THE LOAN AND MERCANTILE. The liquidator of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has made a call of .£22 10a per share on all contributoriea who failed to adopt the scheme of reconstruction. BANK NOTE ROBBERY. Eighteen hundred pounds worth of notes have been stolen from the counter of the Union Bank in Princess Street. j ADVERTISING THE COLONIES.' 1 Tho Agents-General met, at the invitation of Sir Saul Samuel, to discuss the question" of making a united Australian exhibition at the chiof agricultural showa at Home, j Those present supported the idea, but , : thought it was too late to take efi'ec- : tive action this year. PUBLIC TRUSTS. In giving evident before a Select Committee of the H-maa of Commons : an public trusts, Sir Julias Yogel issured them that the Public Trust Office wa« a success in New- Zealand, i Hid Sir W. B. Perceval testified that | ihere was no reason why a similar ! natilution should not be "created in England. » SIR T. M'ILWRAITH. j Sir T. M'llwraith is much better. ' AN EXPLANATION. NEW YOEK, Maech 17. The Spanish Minister in New York leclares that the United States j teamer Alliance wa3 running tha [ ilockade on the Cuban coastwhen : ired at. by a Spanish man-of-war. • j J PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL. '< LISBON, March 17. •< Brazil has resumed the diplomatic ! elations with Portugal which have teen interrupted since the declaration 1 f the Republic. h SWAZILAND. i< CAPETOWN, Maech 18. j ( The King of Swaziland, having sub- ' , litted to Transvaal rule, has been proclaimed paramount chief by the 'resident of the Republic. , A RISING SUPPRESSED. , »MADEID, Maech 18. j Spanish troops suppressed a rising mong the "natives of Mindanao, one ! f the Philippine Islands, but with a • 3ss of two hundred men killed and ( rounded. , JABEZ BALFOUR. i BUENOS ATEES, Maech 18. The Salta. officials defy the National j Government and refuse to allow j abez Balfour to be extradited till he local suit is decided. »^— — — — — I II I II H