HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7756, 9 January 1891, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received January Bth, 10.30 a.m. PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG. London, January 7. Prince Henry of Bait- iberg has been appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight. ' D„. KOCH'S DISCOVERY. Madrid, January 7. Dr. Kocb's process has been applied to lepers with partial success. Heceived January Sth. 10.45 a.m. GERMANY AND AFRICA. Zanzibar, January 7. Dar Es Salaam, a port on the main land south of Zanzibar, becomes the German naval seat of Government. Emm Pasha has been appointed Governor of -he land territory. ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. Capetown, January 7. Sir H. Loch, Chief Commissioner of the Cape, visits England in connection with the Anglo-Portuguese negotiations. AMERICAN CURRENCY. Washington, January 7. Ie is expected that the Senate will pass, and the House will reject, free coinage. EARLY MARRIAGES IN INDIA. Caujutta, January 7. The Indian Government intend to raise the age of consent from ten to twelve, but will not otherwise interfere with the system of early marriages,, which. ha 3 been so much criticised of late. ANARCHIST CONFERENCE. Rome, January 7. An Anarchist Conference at Tigdioli, in Northern Italy, passed resolutions urging the initiation of a general agitation on May Ist. THE SEVKRE WINTER IN ENGLAND. London, January 7, The mortality in London owing to the hard winter is 600 above the weekly average. Received January Bth, 8 p.m. RELEASE OF ANOTHER INVINCIBLE. London, January 7. Edward O'Brien, another " Invincible,'' has been disoharged from gaol. NATIONAL BANK. The Directors of the National Bank of New. Zealaud have declared a dividend of 5 per cent, per annum. AUSTRALASIAN NAVAL DEFENCE. The Admiralty propose to store 2000 tons of coal in tho vicinity of Sydney harbor. If land can be obtained at a reasonable price, the coal will be stored on shore; if not, coal hulks will be built to receive it. Captain E. G. Bourke has been appointed to the command of H.M.S. Riugarooma, and Captain T. P. Nesham to H.M.S. Tauranga. BRITISH TRADE. The value of imports for the yealr is £6,700,000 below the previous year, while the exports show an increase of £14,600,000. FRENCH REVENUE RETURNSParis, January 7. The revenue for 1890 shows a surplus of sixty million franca (£2,400,000).