UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS IN ENGLAND.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 119, 18 November 1895, Page 2

UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS IN ENGLAND.

GOLD ROBBERY. | Per Press Association I London, Nov. 16. The Common Council of the City of London by a majority of 35 declined to pass the customary vote of thanks to Sir J. Renals, the retiring Lord Mayor, alleging that he had utilised bis position for company promotion. The Admiralty is engaging the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tongariro for the transport of troops to operate against the Ashantees. Tbe South Australian Government has purchased a steam lifeboat. She has a speed of eight miles per hour. Mr C. R. Ritchie, President of the Board of trade, replying to the trades deputation, said Government intended to restrict alien immigration, which at present was responsible for displacing twenty per cent of native born Englishmen in the East end of London. The Marquis of Salisbury has declined a request to convene a Conference of representatives of the various nations to discuss the question of prohibiting gambling in wheat, as it is difficult to decide on genuiue and fictitious dealings. Samuels, a money lender, has taken proceedings agaiust Robert Sutton Siever an Australian bookmaker, for becoming security for a £2000 loan for his wife without revealing the fact that he was an uncertified bankrupt. The mouey market is dull, owing to China's unexpected withdrawal of two millions sterling. St, Petersburg, Nov. 16. The Czarina has given birth to a daughter. Berlin, November 16. Germany proposes to establish a naval station on an island near Amoy, China. Paris, Nov 16. The warship Admiral Baudin, one of those ashore at Hyeres, is in great danger Capetown, Nov. 17. An extensive gold robbery is reported from the interior. The African Banking Corporation despatched from the Transvaal to Buloways several boxes of gold of the value of £12,000, but when it arrived at its destination it was fouud the gold had been abstracted and the boxes filled with sand.