BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume 26, Issue 157, 26 January 1889, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

The London correspondent of the " Sydney Morning Herald " predicts that the European situation will reach a climax in April or May. An order for gunboats by the little State of Montenegro is the most ominous incident, showing that it intends to play a decided part in the affairs of 1889, and bodes do good. Leave has been granted to appeal to the Privy Council in the case of Ah Toy, who was awarded damages by the Victorian Court of Appeal in September for not being allowed to land in the colony. The Freemasons gave a hanquet to Lord Onslow before his departure to New Zealand. Mr D. Sheehy, M.P. for Galway South, has been arrested at Glasgow on a charge of inciting. Lard Salhbury has warned Prince Bismarck that he cannot allow the Sultan of Zanzibar to be set aside iii any measures Germany may adopt to rehabilitate its East African Conn pany. The Emperor of Germany, at a military banquet in Berlin, proposed the health of " My Besi. Friend, the Emoeror of Austria." The failure of the Zalinaki dynamite gun is stated to be due to mechanical defects which can be easily remedied. Shells were fired seaward during the experiments, which on_explod ins threw a column o£ water into the~air. 100 ft high. The "Financial News" asserts that the relationehip between certain banks and investment companies in tbe Australasian colonies is utterly unsound and positively dangerous. A land league clerk named Farragher gave evidence before the Parnell Commission on Tuesday. He swore that he handed Mullat several of Egau's cheques, and saw Poole, another Invincible, afterwards rxeouted, receive the league's money. He also identified the alleged forged letters signed by Mr Parnell as being in the hand-writing of | Campbell, Mr Pamell's clerk. It is reported that "Jack, the Hipper," is now in Oorunna, from which place menacing letter* hive been received. The statement is creating a panic in that city. It is stated that lima Di Murska, who died in poverty at Munich some days ago, was systematically robbed of her earnings. The reported suicide of the deceased lady's daughter has not been confirmed. In the courae of the debate on the Army Bill in the Chamber of Deputies, M. De Freycinet, Minister of War, stated that he had secured 3,000,000 men for active service should occasion require it. At the farewell Masonic ba-quet tendered to Earl Onslow, the chair was taken by Earl Enstor. The guest, in responding to the toast of bis health, said that he was going to a young but great and prosperous country, which, notwithstanding divers connoting elements, was loyal to the backbone — a country which honoured masonry but ab horred the great principles cf Freetrade, aud was even more democratic than England. A deputation from the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, London, in the course of an interview with Mr E. 0, N. Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, denied that they had sent discharged prisoners to Australia, as several times reported. They had confined their operations to the United States, to which c mntry it was true they bad despatched a limited number of persons who had completed their frms of imprisonment. Conflicts with and between the negroes in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas are becoming serious. A condition of terrorism prevails, and already there have been numerous fatalities. At a meeting of his congregation in New York, Dr M'Glynn ridiculed the Papal threat of excommunication. The relations of France and the Vatican are strained in consequence of a disagreement concerning the appointment* of several vacant bishoprics. News has reached Hong Kong that the pirates attacked tbe French garrison, killing thirteen *oldier». O'Connor has made a match with Gaudaur for 2,000dol: The race will take place in March next.

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