HOME AND FOREIGN

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7539, 1 May 1890, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN

(PEB PRESS ABBOGU3ION.) geceived April 30th, 12JQ pan. pugilism;. Londoh, April 29. Unless 81a yin succeeds ia making & match he will return to Australia. The fight between Peter Jackeon and J. !*■ Sullivan for 15,000 dollars takes place in San Francisco on June 3rd, COLONIAL PARCELS POST. Mr Raikes, Postmaster-General, has informed the Agent-General that the rates on pattern parcels to the colonies will be reduced in May. VICTORIAN LOAN. Virtually the whole of the Victorian loan is paying under discount. THE COLONISING COMMITTEE. In evidence before the Colonising Committee E. N. C. Braddpn, Agent General of Tasmania, stated 1 that the colony was not opposed to receiving emigrants. Received April 29th, 1&55 p.m----i PRINCE BISMARCK. . Bebus, April 29, Bismarck will shortly leave on a visit to Scotland. t TURKISH DEBT. Germany has offered a protest to the projected conversion of the Turkish debt. RUSSIA AND CHINA. St. Petersburg, April 29. The Russian press is commenting on the danger which would accrue to the Russian empire through China throwing in her lot with England, and lending her assistance in case of outbreak of war, AGRARIAN OUTRAGE. Vienna, April 29. Agrarian agitation has broken out in Qalicia ROSSA. New York, April 29. ~ O'Donovan Roasa has been found guilty of a criminal libel on Patrick Cissidy, but the jury recommended, him to mercy. ' THE GERMAN EMPEROR. Berlin, April 29. Emperor William is at present on a visit to Eisenach, ie Central Germany. A TRAITOR SHOT. St. Pet.brsbukg, April 29. The order committing Schmidt who is alleged to have betrayed plana of fortresses at Croustadt: to penal servitude in Siberia has been countermanded, and' he was shot. It was ascertained that he secretly divulged Russia's scheme for mobilising her troops in the event of war wjth Austria, INDIAN REFORM. CAiiCUTTA, April 29. " Over a hundred meetings have been held at Bengal at which resolutions were passed supporting Bradlaugh's Indian reform, scheme as opposed to that of Viscount Crose, Secretary of State for In'di*. - , r - r Received April 30th. 2 p.m. RUNNING AMUCK. ,i London, April 29. A man named Lee, who had been on a heavy drinking bout, ran amuck' in the city last night and attempted to murder several persons, He was captured after-a severe struggle, but ndt before he had inflicted seven stabs on himself, from which he died. - Received April 30th, 8 p.m. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. London, April 29. Before the Enabling Committee today . Sir Wm. Robinson advocated that West) Australia should ■ have the control of all lands until a new colony is established. VICTORIAN DIVORCE BILL. The English Church Union has unanimously condemned the Victorian Divorce Bill, and passed a resolution expressing sympathy with the clergy. SALVAGE OF WRECKED ~^; ; ; .:-vEssELsi/v\ ;; ;.:>•. ;„: ...;■.., Paris, April 29. Lord Lytton, British Ambassador to Paris, has notified the Freuch Government that England desires the regulation of October, 1889, relative to the salvage of wrecked vessels made applicable to Queensland. - Received May lee, Ll6 a,m. LICENSING BILL. London, April 30., In the House of Commons the Licensing Bill, introduced by Lord Randolph Churchill, has been read a first ; THE EMPEROR WILLIAM. The Emperor William of Germany will pay a yisit to Queen Victoria in the autumn. OBITUARY. Berlin, April 30. Lord Hammond, aged seventy-eight) is dead. [The Right Hod. Edmund, son of the late Mr George Hammond, for many years TTnder-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, bora in London in" 1802, vrus educated at Harrow, Eton, and University College, Oxford* He entered the Civil Service of the Crown ia 1823 as a clerk ia the Privy Council Office, whence in the following year he was transferred to the Foreign Office. In April, 1854, he was appointed Under-Secretary of State. for Foreign Affairs, and a Privy Councillor ialSuU In March, 1874, he was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Hauamoud» of Kirk Ella, Kingston-ou-HulL '