"Age" Specials.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 54, 14 June 1884, Page 3

" Age" Specials.

London 1 , May 29. — It is announced that ! Mr Redmond, member fox* Wexford, and I Mr Sexton, member for Sligo, are making the necessary arrangements for a visit to Australia. The Adelaide Town and Country Bank have established a branch office in London, It is now considered certain that the Recidivistes Bill will be passed by the French Chambers without amendment. A, subsequent compromise is, however, possible between tho British and French authorities, subject to the operation of the Act. The constitution of a Technical Commission, which is to meet in Paris to consider the proposal for widening the Suez Canal, has been officially confirmed. Sir Andrew Clark is to represent the Australian colonies on the Commission. The prospectus will be issued to-morrow of the new Oriental Banking Corporation, with a capital of £2,000,000, in £10 shares. The first issue of shares will be for £1,000,000.

3rd June. — The Committee of the French Senate have prepared their draft report. They approve of the general provisions of the Recidiviste Bill, and confirm the proposal to transport criminals to New Caledonia and French Guiana. They have, however, expunged the clause which proposed to utilise the Marquesas or Mendona Islands in the Pacific Ocean as penal settlements. The Committee further express their approval of the suggestion to release criminals after they have served six years imprisonment in the place to which they may be transported.