BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

West Coast Times, Issue 10338, 30 July 1896, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LoNppx, July 28

The Commons passed the second reading the Uganda Railway Bill by a majority of ' 190. Curzon, in replying to Labouchere, said if England did not open a railway from the Coast to the lakes Germany would be certain £o undertake the work. The Marine Court found the Drummond Castle, which was wrecked in the Bay of Biscay, was not navigated in a seamanlike manner. Her speed was too high and the accident might have been averted if the captain ha* l used the lead.

In the Lords the Premier said Government declined to proclaim a holiday on September 23rd, to celebrate the fact of the Queen's reign exceeding that of George 111. He also said there were many practical objections to increase in the number of bank holidays. Curzon explained in the Commons that Government has recast the duties of the commercial attache in Paris. His work would include Belgium and Switzerland. Consuls in Siam would be increased, and two others appointed in China and Japan. The attache at Berlin would watch British interests in Holland and Scandinavia.

The Congress of the World's Socialist f\ :-f\ ' V 1 I' I r ! ill Workers was mobbed by Anarchists and compelfed fo adjourn. TheMesleyan Conference ppened to-day when' a hearty welcome was extended to Revs. Allan, Jackson, and Holgon of New Zealand and Bavin of Sydney. Dr Ran-

dels was elected tlje new president. A girl aged ,14 years dropped into the sea f rqin;a parachute at Newport It was her first ascent.

During a violent storm two aeronauts met with a mishap and both were killed. In the High Court of Justice, t.o-day, before the Lord Chief Justice, Baron Pollock, and Mr Justice Hawkins, Dr Jameson, Sir John Willoughby, Colonel Grey, Colonel White, and Captain C. J. Coventry, officers of the expedition into the Transvaal, which led to the battle of Krugersdorf, wer,e found guilty upon a charge of making war against a foreign State then at peace with England. At Jameson's .trial Russ3ll urged that the imam question was were defendants

engaged in a military expedition agaicsi the Transvaal. The jury found accused guilty on all counts but added a rider that

the excited state of Johannesburg- at the tjfne presented greatjpro vocation. Jameson was sentenced to 1 5 months imprisonment ; Willoughby, 10 months ; Major White, 7 months ; Grey, White and Coventry, 5 months. None of the sentences carry with them hard labor. Athexs, July 28. Fifteen hundred insurgents defeated the native Moslems and compelled them to stop pillaging in'Retimb, Crete! '""

Paris, July 28. The Mayor of Lille has been suspended for permitting Socialists' riots.