HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7518, 7 April 1890, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

tPEB FRB3S ASSOCIATION.! Received April sth. noon. ANTI-SWEATING AGITATION. London, April 4. The agitation against sweating is spreading. LORD DEERHURST. Lord Deerhurst's creditors demand 20s in the pound. RUSSIAN NAVAL REVIEW. St. Pbtbrsburg, April 4. The Czarewitch will hold a review of the Russian fleet at Vladivostock, a seaport of Asiatic Russia during the Autumn. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD* The Rev. James Fleming, of Whithorn, Scotland, has been nominated Moderator of the United Presbyterian Synod. Received April sth. 12.30 p.m. STANLEY'S RETURN. London, April 4. Stanley is expected to reach England on April 26th. BOOTMAKERS' DEMANDS. The bootmakers who demanded work in factories instead of at home have extended the time necessary to enlarge shops. FRATERNITY OF LABOR. Mr Thomas Burt, M.P., and President of the Miners' National Union has left on a visit to Baron Hirsch, of Berlin. It is his intention to formulate a scheme for the establishment of a grand fraternity of labor between the Trades Unions in Britain and Germany. Reoeived Anril 7th, 12.45 a.m. ENGLAND AND CHINA. London, April 5. China has signed a convention admitting Englishmen to Chung Kianq and the upper Yangtze. A PORTUGUESE EXPLORER. Lisbon, April 5. Cardoe, the explorer, has returned here. A RUSSIAN EXPEDITION. St. Pbtbrsburg, April 5. A Russian expedition has reached Djebutti beyond Obok. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Russia insists that its indemnity should be the primary charge on the new Turkish loan. EGYPTIAN LOAN. Paris, April 5. The French Government has reopened negotiations in connection with the conversion of the Egyptian preference loan from 5 per cent, to 4 per cent., and will probably assent to its being done. AN ITALIAN FASTER. Rome, April 5. Succi, an Italian faster, has subsisted for eighteen days on water and painkiller, and is hopeful to endure fasting for forty days. PERSIAN TOBACCO TRADE. Teheran, April 5. A British syndicate is arranging for a monopoly of the tobacco trade in Persia. Received April 7th, 1.10 a.m. A NEW STEAMER, London, April 5. The Union Company's steamer Kitokono has been launched at Dumbarton. THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION. Constantinople, April 5. The Porte re-opens parleying on the Anglo-Egyptian Convention on the basis of the British evacuation. The Anglo-French negotiations with regard to the conversion of loans are improving. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES. St. Johns, April 5. The colonists insist on the French maritime territorial rights being extinguished, and declare that Newfoundland will agitate in the direction until British supremacy is undisputed. The Premier and Attorney-General have started for England to bring the whole questiou under the notice of the Imperial Government. THE GERMANS IN AFRICA. Berlin, April 5. It is announced that the Sultan and eight chiefs of Mandaia, a kingdom of Central North Africa, have hoisted the German flag. THE STRIKE IN VIENNA. Vienna, April 5. The masons' strike here is subsiding. Received April 7th, 1.40 a.m. ; LORD CARRINGTON. London April 6,

It is understood that Lord Carrington, Governor of New South Wales, •a to be created an Earl. REAL ESTATE IN VICTORIA. The Economist asserts that real estate in Victoria is unsaieabie. SIR T. ESMONDE. In the course of a speech Sir T* Esmonde, one of the Irish delegates to the colonies, said tbat the Melbourne Argus and Age were the only two papers in Australia opposed to Home Rule for Ireland. THE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. New York, April 6. Estimates oi the damage by the recent tornado -and floods on the Mississippi have been overrated. MAJOR PINTO. Lisbon, April 6. Major Pinto, who was recently ordered to Loanda, has left there for this city.