GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4955, 19 February 1895, Page 2

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

j (Received February 19, 1.15 a.m.) r Tioxnox, February 18, Sullivan has challenged Harding i to row him on the Thames, in April, > for £2OO a side. ;J Capetoivs, February 18. [ The King and Queen of Swaziland j' have refused to recognise the Engt lish Convention with the Trausvaal, ~ declaring that they still cling to Queen Victoria, 1 Paris, February 18. c Hurei, the French cyclist, has j broken the record for 100 miles. { His time was 4hrs 7min 47 3-ssec. d Cairo, February 18. i The Khedive is inclined to dismiss • Unbar Pasha, on tho ground of r alleged subserviency to the English. This attitude is seriously fanning i the native fanaticism against the • Europeans, ' _ Loxdox, February 18. It is reported that the French ' offered King Leopold five hundred ■ million francs (twenty millions stir--1 ling) for the Congo territory in tho ' ovent of the Belgian Parliament do- | clining to annex it. Roil e, February 18. The Popo places no trust in tho liberalism of tho Czar, and con- [ sidera that, if any believed his pro- , fessions, the recent arrest of 30 ■ Polish _ priests would completely ' undeceive them. Loxoox, February 18. The Times, reforring to tho attitude assumed by tho Colonies against coloured labour on the mail steamers, advises Australia not to imperil the , Oriental trade for the sake of racial prejudices.