London.

Manawatu Herald, 25 February 1899, Page 2

London.

MR CHAMBERLAIN ILL. Me Obambar.ain ia suffering from flu j nz». AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS. Mr H*Q*;n has made arrangt■neoM with a syodioite, to t4k^ over he Auckland Tramwiys. He has iho secured for the syndicate the puon of working tramways at North Auckland. CHINESE AFFAIRS, Router's P-kin correspondent vires chxt th' situ ition h exceediasrly critical owing to the Chinese Gov^rnm^nt disregaiding thn British ibj otion to Henching Chang, a number of th^ rsungliydm^n, is r^ohcing Huguren as director of the <?u-thern Rtilway Company. It i^ t >n<iidered Hencbing is r^tain.'d 1 -spite his bouiliiy to the British, *4 Imperial capital is invested in the N 'Thfirn Ri' w*v Gompinv. THE ANDREE EXPEDITION. Sea.-eh parties seat <mc by the «{jvr*rnor of the Yeniaeisk province tailed to C'infi m the report of the .ndmg of the \ndree expedition by 'aagu^ps. BRITISH POLITICS. Tie House of 0 unmans adopted the Addrew-tn-Reply. DEATH OF SIR GEORGE BOWEN. Obituary — Sir Georg* Bow^n, ex. Governor of New Zealand. He died «t Brighton of bronchitis after two lays' illness. A MILLIONAIRE. The will of the late Baron Ferdinand Rothschild i* proved, riis property U valued at £1,486,000.