BRITISH FOREIGN.

West Coast Times, Issue 10114, 25 May 1895, Page 2

BRITISH FOREIGN.

London, May 22.

Sir Alfred Douglas began to quarrel with his father, the Marquis of .Queensberry, by calling him a liar and slanderer. The latter eventually knocked his son down. A furious struggle resulted until the police interfered and separated the pair.

Lord Rosebery will introduce in the House of Lords on Friday, a Bill enabling Colonial Judges to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Counoil.

Fanning island has been selected as a station at whioh the proposed Pacific cable should touch.

It was not Lord Alfred Douglas but Lord Douglas of Howick with whom the quarrel occurred. The latter* accused his father of sending insulting letters to Lady Douglas because be was one of Wilde's securities. The Marquis of Queensberry shouted out he was anxious to renew the fight for £10,000 and ad-

dressing the crowd said he disowned his son. Both were bound over in securities of £500 each to keep the peace.

Wilde's trial is now pi'oceecling.

At a banquet, Ward, who was received with universal kindness, insisted that 1 criticisms describing the colonies as persistently coming to the London market hat in' hand w.is unfair, and contended that in all dealings the advantages to , borrowers and lenders was mutual and . that money borrowed was well employed. . In. the Commons, Buxton, replying to a , question as to allowing six mouths vacancy previous to the Governor assuming office, . said they had virtually met Soulh Aus* . tralia's request by postponing the appointment. . In discussing Viscount Wolmer's claim : to remain in the House of Commons until • summoned to the House of Lords, Sir V. FTarcourt declared such to be absurd, and eutiiely without precedent. Oscar Wilde is 6eing re-tried to day before a fresh jury. Carbine has reached Gravesend, none tho worse for his long sea voyage.. i Holders of New Plymouth Harbor ' Board bonds have induced a section of the brokers to influence the Stock Exchange not to quote New Zealand 3 per cent stock. At a meeting of the Ofcago and Southland Investment Company, "Mr James Jackson, who presided, said the last debentures issued by the €ompany, resulted in £92,000 being subscribed. In all £265,000 debentures expired in the year and these were being renewed at 93, the remainder being paid. In the London branch of the Manchester and Salf ord bank, a thief snatched f rom counter a case containing three thousand pounds, with which he managed to effect an escape, Lord Salisbury, speaking at Bradford, urged Government to attend to social reforms instead of disintegrating .the Empire and upsetting the churches, and declared that the spread of Socialism proved the existence of evils requiring remedy. Sir William Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequei, addressing a meeting in the City, appealed to the experience of fifty years in favor of a gold standard, and said Government would never favor bi-inetallism on any conditions. The Goldfields in Now Zealand (sic) with a capital of £100,000 has been registered. An English company has bought the Triumph gold mine of Hauraki. It is rumored in official circles that Earl Glasgow will succeed the late Sir R. W. Duff as Governor of N.S. Wales. Rev John Reginald Hnrmer, Dean of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who accepted the Bishopric of Adelaide, rendered vacant by the appointment of the Sight Rev Oeo, W. Kennion, D.D. to the Sec of Butu and Wells, was con-

seerated to-day by the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westministey Abbey, as feisled by the Bishops of don, Bath and Wells and Salisbury. Canog Gfcorge Body preached. '"'* !! " Jabez Balfour has 'been committed, io stand his trial in the June sessions" oh six charges. - ■ Madrid, May 23. News has been received that the Spanish steamer Gravana foundered in a cyclone off Luzon in the Malay Archipelago, one of the largest islands of the Phillipines. The accident was attended with sad loss of life", "July ihjrae out of 171 souls on board being saved. ' San JTraxctsco, May 22. A gun powder mill exploded near the city. Fourteen were killed. '" TSgsy York, May 23. The miners entombed in i;he West Yirgmia mine have been' rescued. Am immense quantify of giin powder accidentally exploded and wrecked the Monongahela mine in West Virginia. One hundred and thirty miners are entombed. ' tJp to the present fourteen bodies have heen recovered. The work of rescue is proceeding. Capetown, May 22. A public meeting is being organised to protest against the Government proposal to include frozen meat under the heading of preserved meats, thus 'increasing the. import duty by 2d per lb,