GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 476, 15 November 1897, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

(Per Press Association.—Copyriyht.)

London, Nov. 13

Mr John Thomas Morton, the wellknown oilman, has bequated £500,000 to missions and charities. Mr Morton took considerable interest in missions in the New Hebrides. It is reported that the British Government insists on the French evacuating Boussa, in West Africa. Nov. 14. The Russian Government has ordered two thirty-eight knot Turbine torpedoboats from a Newcastle-on-Tyne firm. The warship Royal Arthur, commissioned to replace the Orlando on the Australian station sails on Thursday. On her trial trip she did 18 knots an hour. Gibson Bros'. Australian steeplechase horse Daimio ran secoud in the Valentine Steeplechase at Liverpool. Vienna, Nov. 1-1. Speaking in the Reichsrath, Count Badem, Premier, said the Government was anxious to arrive at a compromise upon the question as to the use of the Bohemian language, and that it fully recognises the importance of the subject to Germany. Pretoria, Nov. 13. General Joubert and President Kruger are the only candidates for the Presidency of the Transvaal. Mr S. W. Burger, one of the non-official members of the Transvaal Executive, retired from the contest. Berlin, Nov. 14. The German East African fleet has been ordered to Shantung, in the Gulf of Pechli, China, to redress the murders sometime ago of missionaries belonging to the German mission. Ottawa, Nov. 14. The Canadian insurance offices are refusing to insure immigrants for Klondike goldfields. C'aiko, Nov. 14. The party of newspaper correspondents who rode from Berber to Suakim report it to be impossible to construct a packing railway between these two points, owing to the mountainous character of the intervening country. They state a good caravan road could be made.

Adelaide, Nov. 13. Barden, the English cyclist, made his first appearance in the colonies here but Green, the Englishman, just beat him in a mile handicap and a five miles scratch race. In the latter event Body, of New Zealand, was third. Perth, This day. The death is announced of Ernest Giles, the explorer.