HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7524, 14 April 1890, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[pERi PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Received April 12tb, noon.

PACIFIC SUEVEYING SERVICE

London, April 11.

H.M.S; Research has been ordered to proceed to Australia to join the surveying service.

[The Research is quite a new addition to the Royal Navy survey service. She is built of steel, and has one screw. She was launched at Chatham in 1888, and is of 520 tons displacement. - She is not' heavily armed, only carrying one 7-pounder. Her total hunger coal capacity is 70 tons, and her speed is set down at 10.5 knobs per hour. Her Indicated horse-power is 450, and her dimensions are—Length 155 ft, extreme breadth 24ft. draught of water Bft Gin. The cost, of her machinery was £7500 and the hull . '•'.'■';; y-;;-v 'pX;-Aakbt. : .:. It is rutnofed that Dr. Barry, formerly Bishop., of Sydney, will be appointed Bishop of St, Albans.. The election for the Carnarvon seat in the flouee of Commons, caused by thef sudden death of Mr Edmund Sweetenham, tool? , place to-day, and resulted in. the return of Mr George, liberal, by a majority of 22 over the Conservative candidate.

fThis is a gain to the Liberal party. At the last election Mr Sweetenham,Q. a Conservative, wad returned by a jriajqtity of 15HJ Votes over his opponent Sir T. E. Jonea«Pai*yi a Gladetdnian Liberal.]

PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS. Washington, April 11

The Pan-American Congress has failed to agree r on the question of a common silver coinage, which shall be a legal tender for all American nations.: : :

IMPERIAL COMMISSIONS TO COLONIAL OFFICERS.

Received April 13th, €.30 p.m. London, April 11. The revised regulations respecting the granting of Imperial commissions do not the number of Colonial commissions nor give greater facilities for Obtaining them. FIRE AT BARON ROTHSCHILD'S. By a fire at Baron Rothschild's mansion. &t Waddesdon, near Aylesbury, Buckmghamsbire, a painting by Gainsborough,, valued at was destroyed. LORI) BEERHURST. Viscount Deerhurst, who was adjudicated & bankrupt in February, hae made a eatisiactory arrangement with his creditors. . A WARNING TO INVESTORSThe Economist advises investors t° show above the ordinary amount of oaution in dealing with the Victorian loan. It declares that unless financial ability i 8; introducedJnto the Victorian Treasury, political jobbery checked, and Parliament insists on deriving more from the land than loans, the colonial taxpayers and English investors will sniffer.

THE AMERICAN NAVY. v WASHiHQTOir, April 11. The House ofßepresentatives has to a large extent curtailed the scheme favorably reported on by the Naval Committee of the Senate for largely increasing the navy of the United States. ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. Mozambique April 12. Local dealers have been forbidden by the Portugese authorities to supply provisions to British war ships. Keoeived AvtH Uth, LlSaan, EMIN PASHA. ' . Z&BZSBA2BL, April 12. Dγ Parke declares that the injury received to the eyes by Emm Pasha is incurable, and cataract will produce blindness at the expiration of a year. MASSACRE BY MAKOLOLOS. London, April 13. The massacre of two Portugese officers and 150 native soldiers by Makololos in February has been confirmed