HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8160, 15 April 1895, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Received Apiil 13, at 10.35 a.m. Calcutta, April 12. Tho expedition ii moating no opposition in iia further advance. The tribesmen, awed by the severe handling in the first engagement-, are dispersing. Tho Mohnunds have refused to join Umrah, who, with a sin ill gathering, is at Birwa preparing for flight. Lottors have been rooeived from Lieut?. Fowler and Edwards, at Barwa, reporting that Ihe natives are in a panic.

Washington, April 12. Mr Nathaniel Spcnso will rophce Sir J. FergusBon on tho Land A.D.O. Board. The director* considered that a board of three *ai sufficient. It is proposed to write off ft pound per«hare of tho paid-up capital, mid flvo pounds per share of tho uncalled liability ; nlso to form a special reserve of L 49.850 by reserving tho suiplua of profits, after payment of 7 per cent on ordinary share*. This reserve in to belong to the holders of ordinary shares. A rumor is in circulation, for which there is not any foundation, lhafc Lord Medway, urn of Lord Oranbrook, h is been appointed Governor of New South Wales.

Received April 13, at 11.30 ft. m. London, April 12. Tho amount of wool available for tho noxb series of auctionfl is — Australian, 200,000 baloj ; Now Zealand, 65,000 ; O ipe, 15,000. Arrived— Waifcangi. Sailod, yesterday— Waitralo, for Dunedin an 1 Bluft.

Vienna, April 11. A sudden rising of (ho Danube and S»ve R'vors fl loded Semlin and Batzatia. A thousand of those persona in d-mgor woro rescued by boa's and taken to the Servian sido, where they mot with every attention.

Zanzibar, April 11. Captain Lug\"d tins sailed for England, and takes important news respecting Fronoh aggro^ion in Niger territory. Colonel Oolville, commander of tho foroes in Uganda, considers thut if de* sired nothing could stop British adranco in the Nila Vallry. Treakies ho regards a^ usoleso, and ho says that to attack Knrroum a force of 10,000 soldiers would be ri quired.

Paris, April 11. Reports from Toulon say that tho re> lieving vossols of tho French Pacific Bqmdron have been ordered to Demonican, llutea, and Huahine to avenge recent outrages, and iF necessary thoy will bombard the native settlements.

Paris, April 12. Tlio French accuso the Wcsleyan mis* aionaries of creating disorder in Raitea.

Bkkmn, April 12. Princfl Bismarck, in replying to sn ncldreaa from German residents in Odessa, f-ftid that political friendship nns equally necepsary hetvreen Russia and Uerm-tny, and ho urged the cultivation of a respect for Russia as better neighbors than many others of the Urge Power*.