EUROPEAN ITEMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1276, 10 June 1884, Page 3

EUROPEAN ITEMS.

Lonoon, May 29. It is* announced that Mr Redmond, member for Wexford, and Mr Sexton, member for Sligo, are making the nacesmiy arrangements for a visit to Australia. The Adelaida Town and Qountry Bank have established a branch office in Lon£on. _ . It is now considered certain that the Recidivists Bill be passed by the French Chambers without amendment. A subsequent .compromise is however possible „ between the British and the French authoritioi on the subject of operation of the Act. The prospectus will be issued to-mor-row of the new Oriental Banking Corpora- ■ tion, with a capital of.L2 ; 000,0u0 in. LlO The first issue of shares will be lor L 1,000,000. London, Juno 3 A Committee of the French Senate have prepared, their draft report on the . lUddiviato Bill. They approve of the 1 ijampl&proviaions of the Bill, and confirm -V transport criminals to French Guiana. They expunged the clause which proposed to utilise the Marquesas or Mendaaa Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, as penal settlements. The Committee ' farther express their approval of the sngEition to release criminals after they ve served six years’ imprisonment in the places to which they may be transported.