LATE FOREIGN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume xxx, Issue 2427, 31 January 1888, Page 2

LATE FOREIGN NEWS.

: (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). Lokdon, January ~0. A Rkuedos, 70 feet wide, costing £35,000, ; has been unveiled at St. P.-uil's Cathedral. An important gold discovery ia alledged to have been made near Bnrmoiith. a seaport town of Monmouthshire, North Wales. It is rumoured here that the Intcr- ' national Exhibition, which was to have been held at Brussels this year, will pro--1 bably collapse. The French delegates have been instructed to commence fresh parleying with the Italian representatives in reference to the establishment of a Commercial Treaty between the two conntries. New York, January '27. The "blizzard" which devasted the , Western States the other day has comi pleted isolated several small towns. : The people are reported to be in despe- ■ rate straits owing to the failure of fuel and oil. London, January 27. The annual boat race between the | Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has biien fixed to take phiee on 24th of March next. Mr Cecil Raikes, speaking at Wolverhampton, said he was hopeful of being ; able to devote a portion of the saving : cfifected by the new mail contract to the development of a cheap direct mail ser- , vice with Australia, The report that the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin was to succeed Sir Win. ( Robinson as Governor of South Aus- | tra'ia is denied. , Admiral Hotham will succeed Lord | Charles Bercsford as Junior Lord of the ; Admiralty. Three cargoes of Java sugar have been ) sold at lGs 4Jd. , Sir Vincent Barrington is a competitor ( for the position of British Commissioner ] at the Melbourne Exhibition, For some ( time past Sir Vincent has been travelling on the Continent as the accredited representative of the British Royal Commis- s sion for this Exhibition. t The action between Messrs Shaw, Savill, and Co. and Bell and Coleman, in connection with the steamer Florida, g has been settled by the latter paying the j company i'uOOO in full of all claims. Mr Every Maclean offers for sale a num- 1 bor of valuable pure-bred and imported r stock, (i