General Summary.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 284, 25 July 1888, Page 6

General Summary.

(Dates vkom Europe ur to Jtnk 30). Mr Gladstone is about to issue a manifesto to electors. It is also reported that he has a new proposition relative to the settlement of the liisli question which he will introduce into the House, and which provides a National Assembly for Ireland, and ' continues Irish representation in the Imperial Parliament, the National Assembly to control the Irish police and judiciary. Government has decided to close Parliament about, the middle of August. There will be no full session. Balfour will introduce a bill extending 1 the operation of the Ashbonrne Act, including provisions to enable the Land Commissioners to continue operation?. The libel suit of Jockey Wood against the London "Licensed Victualler's Gazette,"' which accused him of pulling horses, ended on June 2Sth, with an award of one farthing to the plaintiff. The amount Micd for was £5000. This case was an outgrowth of the famous contest between Lord Durham and Sir George Chetwynd. At the sale on June 30 bh, the Queen's yeai lings sold at an average price of 474g5. The rumour is revived that Albert Victor the heir apparent, is to marry the Princess of Anhalt-Dessan. The Princess of Wales has made a special visit to Dessan to see the young woman. The majority of the Royal Committee on Education recommends a greater amount of teaching of the Christian religion in board schools; also, ineiea&ed aid from rates to private schools, over which the ratepayers have no control. An influential minority opposes the recommendations. The amateur athletics of the Manhattan (New York) Club continued to win prizes at the Greene meeting, London. Westing, on June 30, won the 100-yard dash in 10 1-5 seconds. Gay, of the N.Y. Club, won the hi=fc prize for putting the shot, covering 43 ft. 6 in. Coneff won the mile run in 4\ mins. f sec. Clark, also of the Manhattin, won the 7-mile walk. Rev. George Trevor, author ot many theological works, died in London June SO. Dr. Martineau, a leading Unitarian, recehed the degree of Doctor of Laws from Uxfoid on June 20th.

THE ZULU "WAR. AUmning advices from the Cape were received in London on June *2flth. All the available troops at Natal were ordered to proceed immediately to Zululand, as an outbreak is feared among the Zulus. The=e report s> aie corroborated by despatches of .lune 30th. Zulus are gatheiing in formidable numbers. All the troops in Natal are ordeied to the frontier, and messages ha\e been received by the War Department asking immediate reinforcement?. Oiders have been sent to Cape Town, and the Royal Scots Regiment with Artilleiy, eighteen officers, horses, and mpplies for the voyage, embarked for Natal on the 30th. The immediate cause of the outbreak is not stated. Trouble lias been brewing for a long time. A VAST TERRITORIAL ACCESSION. A despatch from London, June 6th, bays that within a few days the British Government has added to its possessions the immense tract extending from Zanzibar northwards as far as Abyssinia, with a seaboard over 1,700 mites in length, and people J by seventy millions of inhabitants. Westward, this almost continental area i each.es to beyond Victoria Xyan/a and the other gi eat lakes from which the Nile takes its source, and includes the finest lands and richest, markets in Centuil Africa. A royal charter, based on tl c hne» ot that ot the old East India Company, has been gi anted to a powerful association, promoted chiefly by Lady JBardett Coutts. and constituted under the name of the East African Company, authorised to take possession of the district in question and exercise justice, collect revenue, etc.