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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5337, 15 August 1895, Page 2

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GENERAL SUMMARY. (European dates to July 24.) ; A despatch to the Times from Vienna ! (July 24) say« Japan is delaying negotiations for a new commercial treaty with China, and also the exeoution of the terntß • of the constitution relating to the evacua- ■ tion of the Liaotung Peninsula, pending ! the reault of the British elections, in the hope that the new Government of Great j Britain will support Japan against Eußßia. ! It was announced in St Petersburg on ; July 24 that an agreement had been < reached at Paria between American and : Russian petroleum firms, by which all the ; kerosene trade of the Mediterranean waters 1 and Norway will be given to Euaeia. la j the remainder of Europe Russia is to j export 35 per cent and America 65 per cent of the kerosene needed. Prince Francis of Teck, a brother-in-law of the Prince of Wales, lost £10,000 on the Curragh races recently. Lord Ardilaun offered to pay his debts, Prince Francis being well-nigh a pauper, but the Queen j interposed and paid them, and then ordered i him to India. There is growing excitement; in Rio do Janeiro over the occupation of the island of Trinidade by the English. The Government has despatched two notes to the British Legation in emphatic protest, quoting the British Admiralty Act of 1782, by virtue of which Trinidade was evacuated by the English and restored to Portugal. Persons in authority in London Bay that the British title to Trinidade ' dates from 1700, when possession was taken of it without any objection on the part of Portugal. It was added that hitherto Brazil has not advanced any claim to the island, but the British Government is ready to discuss in a friendly spirit any representation which Brazil may wish to make on the subject. Oacar Wilde, who is serving his sentence at Pentonville, has. been taken off the treadmill and put to picking oakum, with making matches to follow. The doctorß absolutely refused to allow his being continued on the mill, though he is in good health. Sir Charles Pierson has been appointed Lord Advocate for Scotland, and Mr R. M. Murray, Solicitor-General for Sootland, under the new Ministry. Both these j gentlemen had the .same positions in the j last Salisbury Ministry. j According to Vanity (Fair the Queen speaks scathingly of the New Woman in the advanced novel. Sbe is reported to have remarked on this subject :— " It iB a pity that educated women will allow their pens to run riot, and it is a greater pity that the pnblio is in the mood to buy such books. If there was no publio demand the authors of them would quickly cease writing." : Mr Wendell Easton, of San. Francisco, was in London on June 29, negotiating with Mr Wilson of the White Star steamship line for the transportation of emigrants and the extension of traffic to California. He has concluded arrangements for the opening of a depdt in London for the per- j manent exhibition of Calif ornian produce, { and has also projected a lecturing tour in j the provinces, Betting forth the peculiar advantages of that State. j