BRITISH AM) FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5904, 23 June 1897, Page 3

BRITISH AM) FOREIGN.

[BY ELECTRIC TKLEGRM'II.—COPYBIGET.]

[Per Puess Association.]

T ASM ANIAN G OLDF.I ELDS.

LONDON, June 21

Sir Edward Braddon is negotiating with Mr Siemens, the I'ininent electrician, a scheme to utilise water power for machinery and electiiu lighting in connection with the gold-mines on the west coast of Tasmania. A com any is being formed to conrtrucfca railway from Waratah to the west coast of Tasmania. Sir E. Braddon is hopeful of its success. THE SITUATION" IN" SOUTH AFRICA. At the South African dinner in London, Mr Villiers, Chief J u- lice of the Cape, emphasised the loyalty of the Dutch population of the Cape. Sir Gordon Sprigg said that the outlook in South Africa was more hopeful than for the past eighteen months. MR BARNEY BARNATO. Mr Barnato's body lias arrived. His funeral was witnessed by enor- : mous crowds. REPRESSION IN GERMANY. BERLIN, June 21. In the course of an addrews at Bielefeld the Emperor of Germany expressed- a hope that the nation would support him in sternly repressing revolutionary movements and severely punishing everyone who attempted to prevent employment of free labour.