HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7357, 9 July 1889, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

tBY KtECTEIO TELEGRAPH—COPTRIGHT.] [PSB PBKSS ASSOCIATION. J ''*"" ' Beoeired July Bth, noon. GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. London, July 7. "Ike Bill giving responsible governaeift to Western Australia excludes the area northward from the 26th parallel of latitude from its operation. The proceeds of land sales are to go towards encouraging emigration, and the limitation of emigrants is forbidden unless first assented to by the Imperial Government. THE BEHRING SEA DIFFICULTY. The Behring Sea fishery difficulty fcas been amicably arranged. THE CALLIOPE. The officers of the Calliope are to be promoted. THE SHAH. The Shah has been visiting the Qrystal Palace. JtHE DISASTER AT ST. ETIENNE. Paris, July 7. It-has been ascertained that 213 miners were entombed in the colliery it St. Etienne by the explosion of fire damp last week. A DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE. Nkw York, July 7. A cyclone has ravaged a portion of fexaa, doing damage to the extent of two million dollars. IRISH REPUBLIC. San Francisco, July 7. The Irish residents here are agitating for the .establishment of an Irish Republic in California. THE HOP INDUSTRY. Beoeived July 7th. US p.m. London, July 7. The Government has consented to appoint a Committee to enquire into the depression in the hop industry, \pd to ascertainif > remedy iapossible. * Received July Bth. 10 pjm. SIR H. ROBINSON. ' . London, July 7. Sir Hercules Robinson has declined to contest the Dover constituency. In refusing he states that though he ia opposed to. the policy of the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour respecting the Irish fcdminifcrafcion, he does not oare to be node a cafe-paw at the hands of the Opposition. Received July Bth, 10 p.m. THE POPE AND HIS SUCCESSOR. " Rone, July 8. It is reported that his Holiness the Pope has recommended that eventually bis successor should be Cardinal lavigerie. [Cardinal Lavigerie is Archbishop of Algiers and Tunis. Hβ was born at Esprit «th* Ist October, 1825, and was created tfcrdlnal oa : Uie 87th March, 1882.]