LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2396, 7 May 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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MICHAEL DAYITT, THE IRISH NATIONALIST AGITATOR. THE WIDOWER OF THE LATE PRINCESS ALICE. RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND MOROCCO. (Received May 6, 8.30 p.m.) London, May 5, It is announced that Michael Davitt, the Irish Nationalist agitator, has decided to leave the United Kingdom and settle in Australia. (Received May 7, 1.10 a.m.) May 6. A report has reached here that the Grand Duke Ludwig IY,, of Hesse, widower of the late Princess Alice of Great Britain, has married the divorced wife of the former Secretary to the Russian Legation at Darmstadt, (Received May 6, 8.30 p.m.) Paris, May 5. Diplomatic relations between France and Morocco, which have been somewhat strained on several occasions since the Tunisian war, have now sustained a complete rupture, and the French Government has recalled its Minister from Tangier.

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London, May 1. The Rev. Sydney Linton has been consecrated to the see of Riverina. The ceremony took place at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and among those present were the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of Ely, Lincoln, Oxford, St. Albans, Lichfield, Sodor and Man, Nottingham and Algoma. Mr Dalton, tutor to ihe sens of the Prince of Wales, has privately published a pamphlet advocating the Federation of the English colonies.

May 2. Last night Sir H. B. Loch, the new Governor of Victoria, was entertained at a banquet by Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for that colony. Among those present were the Right Hon. Mr Childers, the Duke of Manchester, Sir

Henry Barkley (who was Governor of Victoria in 1856), Sir Robt. G. W. Herbert (Permanent Tinder-Secretary for the Colonies), and the AgentsGeneral. In proposing the toast of the evening Mr Smith promised his Excellency a cordial welcome on his arrival in Australia. In reply, Sir Henry enforced on those present the necessity of fostering the union between England and the colonies. He leaves for Australia via Plymouth and Hobart on the 28th inst.

It is proposed to lay a cable between Java and Thursday Island.

In the House of Lords on Monday the Earl of Rosebery intends to move for the production of all papers in connection with the Recidiviste question. The Duke of Manchester leaves on a visit to the Australian colonies immediately hia private business will permit him.

The Egyptian Blue Book shows that the English Government have frequently urged Gordon Pasha to withdraw from Khartoum, also that his despatches are incoherent and inconsistent.

It is believed that the reported dynamite outrage at Toronto is a hoax.

The Committee appointed by the German Reichstag to report on the Socialist Bill presented an unfavorable report, and have rejected the measure. The prospectus of the proposed company to take up land in the Northern territory of Australia, projected by Mr Mclntyre, of South Australia, will be issued on Monday. The capital will be <£120,000, and the first issue of shares will cover two-thirds of the capital. An excellent provisional Board of directors has been appointed.

May 3. The Oriental Bank has had to suspend payment, owing to the rapid withdrawal of deposits. The Times states that all its serious losses have already been announced, and that depositors will probably be safe, although the shareholders will remain liable for a million and a half. Mr Thomas Welton is the provisional liquidator. Four robbers have been lynched in Kansas for murdering hawkers. It is supposed the bombs found on Daley were intended to be thrown either in the House of Commons or at Lord Randolph Churchill’s meeting in Birmingham. A bottle of nitro-gly-cerine has been discovered concealed in Egan’s garden.

It is suggested that Sir Henry Loch, as Governor of Victoria, should ,be specially authorised to give the Royal assent to any colonial legislation intended to secure the exclusion of Recidivistes. Lord Derby is expected to make an important speech on this question on Monday.