HOME AND FOREIGN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11540, 19 May 1892, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN

[BY EiEC'JTEIC TeLEOBAPH— COPYRIGHT.] (Pee Press Association.) London, May 17. General Booth is negotiating with various shipping companies with regard to thsir terms for the conveyance of 50,000 of the " Submerged Tenth " to New Zealand. The General states that he intends te send his colonists out in batches of 5000 each. Although the General is endeavouring to come to terms with the shipping companies, he has not I yet submitted the details of his colonisaj tion scheme, but he will probably make a cautious experiment with 50 families, who will bo sent to Cape Colony to form a village community. The London County Council propose, after the next 18 months have expired, to expend .£1,600,000 on public works, including jE420,000 for housing the working classes, and .£200,000 for the purchase of the tramways. Sir William Jervois sails in the Kaikoura on 26th instant for New Zealand, whore he intends to spend some months. The Duke and Duchess of Abercorn propose to^ visit Australia shortly. The British Budget resolutions have been agreed to. Persia bas raised a loan in London to pay off the holders of the tobacco monopoly in preference to accepting aid from Russia, which was offered a short time ago. The Sultan of the Pahangis is pursuing Orang, the rebel leader, whose son was killed in a recent skirmish. Mr Jas. M. McCalmont, M.P. for Antrim, is presiding at a meeting of the Grand Orange Lodge. Baron do Worms said it would be sufficient if the regulations intended to be enforced by Queensland, with regard to Kanaka labour, were forwarded by post to the Imperial Government. Si. Petersburg, May 17. The Government are stopping the levies which were made on the salaries of Civil Servants in aid of the sufferers in faminestricken districts, and are now taking collections made in the various churches. The Russian steamer Wolyon foundered in the Caspian Sea, and 250 persons were drowned. Ottawa, May 17. The case brought by the Gove nment to recover from M. Ficaud, late Financial Secretary to Mr B. Mercier (formerly Premier of Quebec), the sum of 2200,000' dollars in connection with the Baie Chaleur railway contracts, bas been dismissed on the grounds that Armstrong, the contractor, had not sued conjointly, and also because fraud and collusion had been alleged. New York;, May 17. The Venezuelan insurgents under General Gill are reported to have occupied Boldar.