FOREIGN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3217, 30 May 1889, Page 2

FOREIGN.

. Paris, May 28, Up'tothe present no steps have been taken by tho Government in the divectiou of obtaining from the Chamber of Deputies authority to issue bonds to tho . amount of a million and a half pounds for the prosecution of: the Pinam'a jOanal works, pending the formation:: of a new company. ' . : :; v . ? Tlia Postmaster-General, the Kighi 1 Hon, Cecil Baikes, is considering the offers received from Australia for the purchase of the right of adveikisingoii the.backs of postage stamps The Parisian press is mooting I againßt auyrenewal-of. tions with Italy for a Commercial Reciprocal Treaty. Rome, May 28. ,In the course of; an interview Signor Grispi, the Italian Premier,

expressed himself of s . defensive strength of'ltaly, ani\ > protested Hint Italy wis careless of' o' t hostility to Fiance. 'Referring to 't Boulangorism, Signor Crispi made light of, the agitation, and oharacter- ,> _ lsed Genoial Boulanger ns nothing jkV but a charlatan. ' Berlin, May 28. - ' King Humbert received an ovation on bis arrival at Frankfort! Replying . to addresses presented to him, ho said that Germans and Italians vera now as membeis of one family. - " St. PwEiisDißo, Mfty 28." < ■ The Czar has issued a proclaim- ' tion to his Bubjeots, in*v?hich t he I expresses his gratitude to Providence*;, for his' escapo from on 'tue » the occasion of the railway accident, near Boiki on 80th October. The also contains an annouucemoiit,': of ? the : patron of- the ": liarltoff railway ollicials, to whose : careless supervision the acdidentwas.. attributed. M