GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 415, 2 September 1897, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

(jPer Press A —('ojo/ii'iiit.) London, August 31. Lord Salisbury, in a letter denouncing the German commercial treaty, states that it formed a barrier to internal fiscal arrangements, and was inconsistent with the close ties of commercial intercourse between England and her colonies which were necessary to consolidate the Empire. Paris. Sept. 1. Admiral Besnard, Minister of Marine, has given an order for the building of two armored cruisers, each of 1517 tons, and having a steaming speed of 21 knots. Berlin, August 31. The Emperor reviewed the Eighth Army Corps at Coblentz. At the subsequent banquet he said the locality was associated with great events, declaring that the Rhinelanders were as ready for duty and as efficient aud brave as under the Great Emperor. Cape Town, August 31. Galishiwe, the Becbuaualand chief who in December last headed a revolt which was the outcome of the shooting of the natives' cattle suffering from rinderpest by the authorities, has been captured by the British punitive force. Galishiwe was wounded early in the present month, and had since been hiding in the mountains. Sydney, This day. It is very likely that Admiral Pearson, who has just been in command of the second division of reserves in the fleet at the Spithead review, will succeed Admiral Bridge on the Australian station whose term expires on January 14. .