People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

In an article on the recent Canadian elections the London Times considers the hneaediate introduction of free trade In Canada as outside the range of> practical politics. “Mr. Laurier will do much,” the Times adds, “if he Is able hy cautious and tentative beginnings to prepare the public mind for a fiscal change.” M. Meline, the French premier, speaking at Soissons on the disturbance of the world’s markets by the monetary crisis, announced that measures would shortly be taken for the temporary admission into France of corn. It is officially announced that the resignations of Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Belt, and Dr. Rutherford Harris as directors of the British South Africa company have been accepted. The czar is suffering from the jaundice. The condition of Henry M. Stanley, M. P„ the well-known explorer, is serious. * The Uruguayan loan is announced. The amount is £1,667,000 and the interest 5 per cent.. The price of issue is 71%. Oxford has conferred the honorary degree of D. D. upon Dr. Ansbn, exbishop of Qu’Appelle, and Dean Hoffmann of New York. It is now stated that 27,000 persons were drowned and 8,000 were injured during the recent tidal wave and earthquake in the northern provinces of Japan. The Arctic steamer Windward, Which left Gravesend, England, on June 9 for Franz Josef Land to bring home the Jackson Harmsworth expedition, has arrived at Vardoe, Norway.