BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

West Coast Times, Issue 10337, 29 July 1896, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

London, July 27. At a meeting of the Union Bank" shareholders the reporb was adopted. Proposal for transfer of a quarter million from reserve td contingent account was not adopted and the amount restored id reserve. At a meeting of the Wbrld's Socialist i Workers in London seven hundred delegates -were present. Reso}utipn§ w.ere passed dehiariding eiglifc iibiifi wbrE iirict universal suffrage.. i The 6fetfe rebellion is extending to the eastern provinces. The Porte state they rely on the Powers to enforce conditions of peace. Arms and ammunition are being supplied io rebels in large quantities from Athens. Severe fighting is reported at Retima where a body of fifteen hundred Christians defeated the Turks. The Greeks crossed the Turkish frontier at Larissa. A secret comniittee has provided extensive funds for promotion of agitation in Macedonia. The Greek Government has promised to stop the movement. An invitation has been extended to Australia and New Zealand asking them to take parfc in tHe Brussels 1 International Exhibition of 1897. Harland and Wbiffe's Workshops in Belfast have bepn bm'iied. Several large vessels were injured and the adjacent engine works destroyed. The fire throws 400 d men out pi work. It is estimate^ the damage is £20Q,000. The Key of Komata Gold Mining Company, with a capital of £iOOjOtJ0; is Being issued. Great Britain appoints two cbiriihercial attaches to its courts at Berlin and Madrid. Paris, July 27. Caulbdn, Governor of Algeria, urges the necessity of occupying ijilust, which is looked upon as the granarylof the Sahara. Starvation, he considers, will be the only means of keeping the nomad tribes under control. Hanatoiix, unveiling the statue of Jules Ferry, said Tunis, Tonkin, Congo and Madagascar marked successive steps in the creation of a new empire which has regained for France a certain portion of its former glory. Union with Russia will strengthen the bonds of peace. • Madrid, July 27. Spain has bought 2 cruisers at Genoa for 700,000 pesitas each. I Berlin, July 27. Germany is raising a large portion of the new Russian loan. Washington; July S7, I The Populist party has nominated W&fc- ! son for the Vice-Presidency: Brussels, July 2tf. Johnson, editor of the Seamans Chronicle, has been expelled from Antwerp for promoting a dock strike: CAtRo, July 27. Lieut Fenwick and Surgeon Trask died of cholera at Koshes. Capetown, July 27: A crowded meeting passed a resolution urging the Chartered Coy. to reinstate Rhodes. Leading men, however, were mostly absent. I General Carringfcon has ordered a garrison of volunteers to be raised in Buluwayo. The rebel position in the MatOppo hills is not shaken ahd" holders resisted several attacks. The position of the whites at Gwelo is reported to be critical and famine prices rule. Calcutta, July 27. By a railway collisibn at Delhi 30 persons were killed and 20 injured.