CITY EDITOIN. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5256, 22 May 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITOIN. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BIT ELSOTRIO TBLaQRAPR—OOPYBWaT,] [Special to Passs Association.]

RELEASED. » / LONDON, Mat 20. | Egan, convicted of participation in J dynamite outrages in Ireland, has , been released from gaol. THE LATE SIR R. HAMILTON. The personalty in the estate of the late Sir. Robert Hamilton, ex.Governor oi: Tasmania, has : baen sworn at under in which the widow is granted a life interest. BEQUESTS. Mat 21. ; A Bolton lady has bequeathed the i sum of £32,000 each to the British ! and Foreign Bible Society, the Church ; Missionary Society and the Church j Pastoral Aid_Bjociety^_ ! TSE WILD CASE9r"~ Taylor was found guilty. ADULTERATED BUTTER. The Chief Justice has decided Cnat • the warrant of purity of Australian j butter given by the importers' exonerated a G-osport merchant, who was fined by the lower Court for sellj ing adulterated butter. Though the' ! article contained seventeen per cent of foreign fat, it had not been proved when the adulteration took place. SLAVE TRADING. BERLIN, Mat 21. The Reichstag has approved of a Bill to abolish Blave trading in the territory in Africa over which Germany has placed a protectorate. 81-METALLISM. I During a discussion ousthe subject ! 'in the Prussian Lower House, Herr Arendt said they only wanted bimetallism in the event of the Powers agreeing to recognise a . permanent value for silver. No doubt when Mr Balfour came into power England , would ultimately yield. Germany was willing to wait if a conference was' convened. 1 COMPULSORILY RETIRED. WASHINGTON, Mat 20. The Naval Board has decided on J the compulsory retirement of Admiral [ Mead, of the United States Navy,] ■j who publicly declared that he rei gretted being compelled to remain • inactive against the British during ' the latter's action in Corinto, Nicara- . qua. The decision has been endorsed - by President Cleveland.