FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
(By KiiKUTRiu TuLKUKAi'n.— Copyright.) London, March (j. Count Hkkbkrt Bismarck interviews Lord Salisbury to-morrow, to try to induce Britain to favourably consider the Russian proposals respecting Bulgaria and Turkey. IMnoe Nicholas of Leuclitenberg will probably be the Czirs nominee for the Bulgarian, throne. The Times says that Prince Ferdinand is likely to withdraw. It is reported that extensive frauds have been discovered at Duvonport dockyard, which compromise all ranks of employes there. .Detectives are now miking a thorough investigation into the matter. It is not yet known whether the ordinary workmen are implicated in the fraud, but it is asserted that a number of officers and men on the permanent staiT are mixed up in dishonest practices which have been going on for a long time past. A number of copper workers have already been arrested for fraudulent practices. It is alleged they have been in tho habit of using Government material for private work, and that the}' performed this private work during hours in which they s'lould have been engaged in Government work. March 7. The official report respecting the Crown Prince is satisfactory, except that the larynx has not improved, Professor Waldeniar reports that the expectoration is not so cancerous as it was.
The Crown Prince will probably return to Wiesbaden, a town of Prussia, much frequented for its mineral baths and mineral waters. There is still a difference, of opinion amongst the doctors as to the malignity of tin; disease, but it is asserted that the Prince is much improved in condition. The Right Hon. Mr Goschon's budget speech is expected co be made on the lath inst. It in expected that there will be over £3,000,000 surplus. A letter from the Queen to General Gordon's sister has been published, in which Her Majesty deplores the stain left upon Britain by General Gordon's cruel fate. A treaty has been signed by the Chinese Minister at Washington and Mr Secretary Bayard, forbidding the introduction of Chinese labourers into the States. The Queen will dine with the Prince of Wales on the occasiou of his silver wedding, on the 10th inst. Mr Wilfred Blunt lias been released from Gal way Gaol. Tho Abyssinians threaten to attack simultaneously all the positions taken up by the Italian troops. The House of Commons approves of the report of the Committee on Trade, Commerce and Agriculture. It rejected the report of the committee on the Scottish Bills on the ground that they were virtually Bills for Homellule. Mr Gladstone aud Sir H. F. Trcvelyan supported the motion for the committee to whom all Bills affecting Scotland were to be referred. The motion was negatived by 77RojiK, March o. The tariil" war with France is exciting great irritation, and the Italian papers profess to be alarmed at the, movements of the French troops on the frontier.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2444, 10 March 1888, Page 2
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