HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7540, 2 May 1890, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[PKB PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) Received May Ist, 12.15 p.m. " . " CKETE, r- Athens, April 30. Martial law, which was recently proclaimed iti the island of Crete, has been abolished. Received May Ist, 12.10 p.m. . DB. BARRY. London, April 30. Dr. Barry, speaking,, at a dinner given to King's College, said his experience in Australia bad been a vesy bitter one, and he found the people to be very crude. . ' , j , ENGLAND AND CHINA. Sir Halliday Macartney, English' Secretary to the Chinese Envoy, in the course of an interview to-day, said that China insisted on being.placed on an equal status with other Powers, and asserted that an .agreement with Australia would have been concluded had it not been for ten days' delay occasioned by Sir John Walsham, British Minister at Pekin. EVACUATION OF EGYPT. Received May let, 12.10 p.m. Lord Salisbury has informed Turkey that it is impossible to hasten the evacuation of Egypfc.. PASSPORTS IN ALSACE. Berlin, April 30. Arrangements are being made for the abolition of the passport system in Alsace. i CEYLON LOAN. J London, April 30. A Ceylon three arid a half per cent, loan of £450,000 ia advertised. The minimum is fixed at 93. AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. Sporting.critics are pleased with the quality of the new blood contained in the Australian eleven. Received May Ist, noon. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN IN ENGLAND. The Rev. John Thompson has been appointed Moderator of the Presbyterian- Church in England, For the past seventeen years Mr Thompson has had charge of Westmoreland-Church, Newcastle-on-Tjae, and his book on " St. Peter " is well-known. Received May Ist, 10.30 p.m. A PKEaB«&>FRQtf NEW ZEALAND. ; London, April 30. Messrs Penny and Hegman, a firm in Blenheim, New Zealand, have made a present of a ' quantity of frozen mutton and butter to Sir H, A. Isaacs, Lord Mayor of London. NEW PATENT. Mr Gibson, the patentee of a looomotive link motion, has sailed for Melbourne, where he expects that his patent will receive a fair trial. ,A syndicate has already guaranteed that the patent shall be tried on the Victorian railways*. Received May 2nd, 1.30 p.m. THE ENGLISH IN AFRICA. Zanzibar, May 1. Mwanga has placed Uganda explu-j sively within the influence of the British East Africa Company.