FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2463, 24 April 1888, Page 2

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) London, April 20. Eight thousand emigrants embarked at Liverpool on Wednesday for Canada and New York. The .Roumanian newspapers arc demanding the expulsion from the country of M. Hitrovo, the Russian Ambassador. Lord Ivnutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, lias written to the New South Wales Government to the effect that the proposal of the latter to exclude the immigration of Chinese into Austra] lian territory for the period of twenty years presents serious difficulties. It is announced that twentyinstrumen talists will accompany Mr Fred Cowan, musical conductor at the Exhibition, to Melbourne. M. Goblet threatens that France will retaliate should England impose a diity on bnttled wiue. The peers and their heirs are almost unanimous in petitioning for a reform of the House of Lords. A Spalding team of baseball players leave Chicago for Australia about the middle of October. Iu the House of Commons to-day the Local Government Bill passed through its second readiug on the voices. The compensation clauses, providing for compensating publicans whose licenses were refused, were freely debated. Seveu of the counties in Ontario have, by a large majority, decided against the renewal of local option with regard to licensing matters. The centenary of La Perouse will be celebrated iu Paris. It is expected that the New South Wales loan will be over-subscribcd at 103. Jem Smith, the pugilist, has acct\s«fed the challenge to light Peter Jackson at Sydney for £1000. An explosion in the collieries at Work - ingham, Cumberland, resulted in the death of seveu miners.