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Kumara Times, Issue 3032, 22 July 1886, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. , RESIGNATION OE GLADSTONE MINISTRY. SPECIAL MESSENGER TO THE QUEEN. MEETING OF GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN PREMIERS. (Received July 21, 2 a.m.) London, July 21. Mr Gladstone has despatched a special messenger to the Queen at Osborne, conveying the resignation of the Ministry. Berlin, July 20. A meeting has been arranged between Count KAlnoky, the Austrian Premier, and Prince Bismarck to take place at Kissengen at an early date. [special to press ASSOCIATION.| London, July 15. Mr Gladstone in closing an angry correspondence which has taken place between himself and the Duke of Westminster, threatens the abolition of the aristocracy unless their acts are governed with more wisdom than hitherto. Lord Salisbury is anxious that Lord Hartingtou should accept the office of Premier, he himself laking the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. Lord Randolph Churchill suggests that Mr Chamberlain and himself should stand oiu, but even yet it is unlikely that such a coalition will be effected. A movement is on foot to establish an Indian and Colonial Museum The Commissioners of the Jubilee Exhibition have offered to co-operate in the matter, and her Maj.-sty f 1 e Queen has expressed a hope that the Empire would subscribe half a million for its maintenance, &c, and that ibe initial contributions to it might be obtained fmm the present Exhibition. It is reported that, the English and American Governments ate arranging to extradite Dynamiters and Socialists. Sir Giaham Berry is pressing for the ! evacuation of the New Hebrides by ' France. i An outrage, by Moonlighters has "• been perpetrated in Cardigan. ; July 10. :• The Times is trging the Mnquis of t Hartingtou, the Duke of Argyll-, Sir > Henry James, Mr Goseben, and Mr - Trevelyan to form a Coalition Party, i Maxwell, who is under sentence of 1 death for the IVller murder at St. I Louis, has been respited until October. Her Majesty the Queen and Princess 3 Beatrice visited the Exhibition yester--3 day. ' I ?’■ • ‘OS are besiegin'.' Thaimos, situ- ’ | at.ed in Chinese w;ii, j j e'en nnd England are f •rtify?ng ■ ; E-ipiniault. , | Mr A! liar nl Adelaide, lias received I the "iont!".ie‘ for the construe!ion of Mr

Anthony Herdern’s Western Australian Railway. The contract embraces a length of 160 miles, without necessary ironwork. The Times considers that the Queensland Assembly are clearly right to dispute the Money Bills. The British and Colonia l Temperance Congress have elected Mr Ganning President. Messrs Collins, Vale, M‘Lean, Jago, and Win wood, read papers advocating the direct popular Temperance veto. July 17. The Marquis of Hartington has declined to accept Mr Gladstone’s suggested modification of the Home Buie proposals. The Irish Bank Stock is recovering from the recent heavy fall. Mr Gladstone’s letters to the Press indicate a tendency to a repeal of the Union, and to abolish the House of Lords. Mr Goldwin Smith asks whether such a man, in the frame of mind that Mr Gladstone is in, is fit to deal with Ireland. The “Times” denounces Mr Gladstone’s travesties of history and the baseless charges made by him against his opponents as unfair. It also considers that he attacks many of bis old friends. Many of the English journals follow in the same strain, and say that the vulgarity of his epithets is turning his defeat into personal humiliation. A shipment of frozen mutton from the Falkland Islands is realising 5d per lb. Great excitement was created in Paris over the duel between General Boulanger and M. Larieuty, The latter fir ed first and missed his opponent, who fired his revolver in the air. The quarrel arose through the scenes in the French Senate over General Boulanger’s motion for the removal of the Due d’Aumale’s name from the French Army list.

The treaty for the extradition of dynamiters is causing much excitement among the American Irish. A manifesto issued by them advises Mr Parnell to make the House of Commons the laughing stock of the world. Mr John Ruskin, the art-critic, is ill. July 18. Sir Charles Dilke has admitted that there were indiscretions in his conduct some eleven years ago, but he denies every accusation of familiarity with Mrs Crawford. His mother and servants give detailed accounts of his everyday movements. The woman Fanny, whose name was brought up at the trial in the Divorce Court, is still absent from London. July 19. The Committee appointed to arrange the details in connection with the presentation of a piece of plate to the Prince of Wales, includes Lord Rosebery, the Lord Mayor of London, Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Granville, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, and the Agents-General of the Colonies.