BRITISH AND FOREGIN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1629, 5 October 1889, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREGIN NEWS.

The revenue of Great Britain for the last quarter is £94,000 in excess of the samji period last year. Mr /. E. Burns will coatest the Batfrsruea seat. The Parnell defence fund, which has reached £41,000, U no v closed. A Mrs TodA, of Sydney, in a letter to the " Stan? dard," denounces phe insolence and incapacity of servant* » tbe eoioni*a, appeals to the ladies of EBffland to organise a. sociejtf for the purpose of sending out respectable domegtfes to cojonjal ladies gsaraateefßg situations and passage nipofif . Letters appear in the Press suggesting that the Australian colonies ought to express their wishes as to the disposal of the balance of the strike fund. Mr Burns states that £7,000 has been invested by the trustees. He also denies that he has sent any i remitting* to the Rotterdam strikers. Lord Mayor TThiteheod has declined to agree to the proposal made by the London dockmen to be allowed to w*lk»Bshe Lard Mayor's procession as * mark of gratitude for bis wpdiation. Compared with the prices obtained at July sales, fine crossbreds show an advance *m $d B.er lb. In other forts prices are unchanged. In merino fleece r*main«unchangad^ scoured Id advance ; middling, Id to lid; good greasy, Id; medium, $d: greasy Jamba, Id; scoured, ljd. Tbe Emperor »na Empress of Germany are now on a visit to Cegrttrifrople. The Cabinet hay* 4ftcided to prosecute 'L'lnatrassigeant' for asserting (hat military funds hare been applied to electoral purposes. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,476,000 quarters, and f c* the Continent mfiOO qw*rters. The American visible mpply ii etiiwtrt *t 17,875,000 bushels. Mr Wills, father of. the famous Australian exslorer, is dead. The prosecution of the Bari of Galloway for asMolting a girl has been aba«aon^4. The Australian mails which were on board one of the train* wrecked by the .collision in a £tf#nel qjt Axiano, in Italy, have been rescued, but thejur 4eU«ryiKUll» delayed. Mr Tillett, <cWnn*n of the Dock Labourers' Vrio*f i* m—tmtißf the Rotterdam ptrik,cr» to It is reported that a clue has been found to the WhU«ahapel murderer, and th« anpat of a medical Bun U hourly expected. ■^ . It v swßoured on the Bourse that acnadit of JBpkree mttUoft atxkg will shortly be required in ' Berlin to produce bronze guns to be used in con.■eetion with th««mokel«w powder recently mtro4be«4. la the course of a speech at a banqott in Vienna «b Thuwday, Hepr Tizjsa declared tb*t «o fair as -he could foresee, th« peace of Europe was assund. " The FremdenbUtt," one of the leading poji£icol mpers in Constantinople, in an article deumg with B«narionaffairt > urgeithePorte to recognise Prince ITeMinujd'B right to the throne, and / 'Tl l^f l^^ that the eoMWMBce of the 3reat Powers will fee n»