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Manawatu Herald, 10 July 1894, Page 2

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Mr Langley, Liberal, has been elected for Attercliffe, by a majority of 991 over the Conservative and Labour candidates opposed to him. The yacht Satanita ran into and sank the Valkyrie while racing on the Clyde. The accident was brought about owing to the former being jammed at the start by the steam launches. The Satanita was steered by her owner, Mr H. D. Clarke, while the Earl of Dunraven was at the helm on his own yacht, which sank.

In the House of Commons, Sir £. Grey, Parliamentary Under-Secre-tary for the Foreign Office, stated that the Government were considering their reply to a decision of the Dutch Government re the Oosta ! Rica Packet seizure, and said that | the Government were aware of the strong feeling in New South Wales on the question. The Prince of Wales' yacht Britannia defeated the American crack yacht Vigilant by SSseca in a race on the Clyde. Mr Woodall, M.P. for Hanley, declared that the eight hours system in the Government factories has been most successful. Mr Campbell Bannerman, Secretary for War, stated in the House of Commons that the Brennan torpedo had been an extraordinary success. Forty vessell are due in London in September with frozen meat. While the Prince and Princess of | Wales were driving in Hyde Park a man carrying a parcel advanced and threw it into the carriage. The ! Princess turned deadly pale, but the Prince attempted to reassure her, and stood up in the carriage, covering the Princess, lhe parcel struck the Prince and burst, when it was discovered that it contained only flowers. In the House of Lords, lhe Marquis of Salisbury introduced a Bill for the exclusion from the United Kingdom of destitute aliens, and making provision for expelling foreigners guilty of taking part in aggressive plots. In moving the first reading of the Bill, he declared that Great j Britain was the laboratory and head centre of the Anarchists who hatched plots to be executed elsewhere. It was therefore necessary to abandon the theory of the rights of asylum, and cease to offer special facilities for assassins. The Premier said he would not oppose the first proposal, but, as regards the second provision, he expressed the opinion that the British detective force was quite ample to cope with the evil. He denied that Great Britain had willingly harboured assassins, and he pointed out that many leading Anarchists had been arrested and their designs upset. He feared the j Marquis of Salisbury's measure would have a disastrous effect on the Continent, and complicate foreign relations. The Bill wag read a first time. | The Coal Owners' and Miner* Federation of Great Britain have j informally come to an agreement on 1 ! the basis of reduction of 10 per cent., for a period of two years. The decision, it is thought, is likely to settle the Scotch strike. The last Australian mails via San Francisco, which were due to leave New York on the 28th inst., have not arrived, being detained by the strikers. The Valkyrie sank in 80 fathoms of water. Thirty persons, including the Earl of Dunraven, were left struggling in the water, but all were rescued. The yacht blew up from compression of the air before she went down. Sir Henry Layard, the explorer of Nineveh, is dead. At the Henley-on -Thames Regatta, the Leander crew defeated the Thames crew and again maintained their right to hold the Grand Challenge Cup. The Trinity crew, Oxford, de* feated the London Bowing Club for the Thames Challenge Cup.