LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2997, 11 June 1886, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

■ [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph-Copyright. < SANCTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT. THE PARTY DISTURBANCES AT BELFAST. SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. BANK RATE OF DISCOUNT, INSANITY OF KING LOUIS, OF BAVARIA. DEPOSITION FROM THE THRONE. THE FRENCH WAR A T ESSELS FOR THE NEW HEBRIDES. (Received June 10, 3 p.m.) London, June 9. Her Majesty the Queen Ims given her sane ion for the dissolution of Parliament. The date of die new elections Ims not been fixed. It is believed at the Foreign Office that the French vessels which recently proceeded to the New Hebrides were despatched (here solely for the purpose of obtaining reparation for outrages by natives on French subjects. Confidence is felt that France will not act in a undeihand manner, Mr Graham Berry, A gent. General for "Victoria, had an interview with Earl Rosebery, the Secretary of Stale for Foreign Affairs. No details hav yet transpired. (Received June 11. 1 30 am.) Evening. The disturbance between Catholic and Protestant parties tit Belfast proved

of a very serious nature. The police who attempted to quell the disturbance were attacked with stones and obliged to fire upon the mob, killing five of their number and wounding many others. (Received June 11, 12.10 p.m.) June 10. The directors of the Bank of England to-day reduced the bank rate of discount from 3to 2 \ per cent. Munich, June 10. King Louis, of Bavaria, has been declared insane by his physicians, and has, in consequence, been formally deposed from the throne. (Received June 10, 1.10 p.m.) Paris, June 9. The French Government, in reply to the inquiries of the English Foreign Office, have announced officially that the subject of despatching a French man-of-war to the New Hebrides wns to protect French subjects. Owiug to the recent massacre by the natives, troops would be landed at the points menaced with attack, and possibly a temporary station might be established, but the movement had no political object. [special to press association. J London, June 4. Two hundred thousand Orangemen in Canada have offered to help the Ulster men in the event of tranble. The Jubilee Exhibition Committee are hampered in their action owing to the indecision of the Government. The Post Office authorities compliment Sir Saul Samuel on the success attained by him in arranging the parcels post. The tender for the Federal Mail service by the P.and O. Company is so moderate, that the Company are confident of being successful, and in that event they will probably build larger vessels in order to secure a greater number of passengers at cheaper rates. Viscount Monck, Trustee of the New South Wales Loan and Mortgage Agency Company, has discussed with the leading colonists at the Exhibition the advisability of introducing Torrens' Act for facilitating land transfer into England.