FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2491, 28 June 1888, Page 2

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

| By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] Washington, June 26. Tine Republican Convention have adopted General Harrison as their candidate for the Presidency. Rome, June 25. His Holiness the Pope declares that he never will agree willingly to depart from the Vatican. Berlin, June 25. Funeral services were held throughout Germany yesterday in commemoration of the death of the lato Emperor. Emperor William and the Empress attended the service at Potsdam, and afterwards made a state entry into Berlin. London, June 25. The capital of Mr Pritchard Morgan's company, to work the Grwynfynwdd gold mines, has been over subscribed. Juno 26. Tenders for the Queensland two and a-half million loan at per cent., with a minimum of 94, will be opened on Tuesday. The cricket match between the Australians and Yorkshire was resumed to-dajr, and at the luncheon adjournment the latter had lost three wickets for 105 runs. Later. The Yorkshiramen made two hundred and twenty-eight in the first innings, being one hundred and thirty-nine less than their opponents. The Yorkshiramen followed on, and at tiie close of the days play, had lost one wicket for thirty-four runs. The ship Drummond Castle, during a gale off Aguilns, a Spanish seaport on the Mediterranean, sighted a large vessel disabled, name unknown. From the statement of the captain of the Drummond Castle, it is thought emigrants were aboard battened down, as wild shrieks were heard. As the captain of the ill-fated vessel shouted that he had lost all his boats, the vessel suddently disappeared early on the morning of the -Jtth inst. Dublin, June 25. The corps of a man who had been boycotted, and which had been buried in We' t'ord cemetery, has beet disinterred a.nd mutilated. Serious conflicts have taken place at Limerick and Dundalk, between the residents and the police. Many persons were injured, and numerous arrests were made.