BRITISH AND FOREIGN

West Coast Times, Issue 10531, 15 July 1897, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

London, July 13. Sir Wilfred Laurier displays a lukewarm feeling with regard to the Pacific cable 1 He distrusts the estimates which have been made as to cost, and the scheme is likely to be indefinitely postponed, News has been received that rebels in British North Borneo have burned Saya and robbed the Treasury of 9,000 dollars. A number of papyri have been discovered among tho ruins of a townjin tho Libyan desert in Northern Africa. They contaiu eight sayings of Jesus Christ, some of them wholly new. It is intended to publish tho official report of the proceedings of the recent conference between the Colonial Premier§

and the leading officials of the Colonial Office. The addresses of Rt. Hons. J. Chamberlain and J. G. Goschen will te given, together with the conclusions arrived at. The Andrew Company of cotton spinners, Ashton-under-Lyme, recovered £500 damages from Mr Labouchere for a libel published iv Truth. Capetown, July 13. Natives are fighting in the Mazoe district, Bechuanalaud. They have cut down the Continental telegraph wire, converting it into bullets. A patrcl force killed 30 of them. Pretoria, July 13. The Volksraad has adopted a treaty with the Orange Free State providing for closer union between the two countries. Washington, July 13. M'Kinley has instructed the Admiralty to send the battleship Oregon to Hawaii. She will land a force of marines in the event of any Japanese aggression being attempted.

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