EXPLORING EXPEDITION.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 32, 6 August 1896, Page 2

EXPLORING EXPEDITION.

THE FRENCH CENSUS. (Per Press Association.) London, August 4. An alarming increase in sickness and d deaths in Whitechapel, whore the water / is now only supplied for an hour daily. The drainage is condemned. The Britannia Company (Hauraki) is being floated with a capital of 1.100,000, of which £25,000 are issuing. The Queen inspected the fleet at Spithead, passing close to each vessel. The Porte has intimated that it considers interference in Crete contrary to the sovereign rights of Turkey. Li Hung Chang had an interview extending over an hour with the Marquis of Salisbury. Conwav's exploring expedition has crossed Spitzbergen from west to east, which is the first time the feat has been accomplished. Shares in the Key (?) Komata mine, New Zealand, have been allotted. Reports from Rangoon state that the existing relations with the Chinese i\re favorable for a settlement of the K^icliin frontier difficulty, and that such settlement is urgent. The House of Lords has passed the sneond reading of the Encouragement of Light Railways Bill. ' Lisbon, August /5. The re-lighting of the city with gas has i been arranged within three Aays. Pretoria. August 5. The Yalksraad has carried a measure providing for tho education of Uitlanders' children in their home language. New York, Axigust o. The High Court of Guiana, South 1 America, urges h reduction in the military 1 expense of the country. J Sofia, August 4. 1 The outrage at Stambonloff's tomb ' was repeated, dyuamite cartridges be- ' ing used on this occasion instead of a i bomb. ' Washington, August 4. i Coroa has sanctioned the construction 1 by the Americans of a railway from . Seoul to Chemulpo. Cairo, August 5. Thejrailway to Koshek is completed. Paris, August 5. The French census shows the population is thirty-ci^ht millions, an increase of 10i5,819 in live years, and even this is confined to the cities, as thejcounti-y districts 6how a decrease. Shanghai, August 5. Corea has ceded to Frenchmen the entire railway rights in Ping Yang and Seoul. Another concession has been made to the Russians to explore the gold mines.