HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7770, 26 January 1891, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(PKB BBKSe ASSOCIATION.) Received ftamiy Sit*. a.pj. VIOTOKIAN RAILWAYS. London, January 23? The Financial Ketes asserts that the Victorian railways most either have, bcoQ recklessly extended or grossly LORD BUSTON. Lord Eustoq has recovered. THE AUSTRALIAN CRUIBSR& The Auatraliaa cruisers are having their crews put on board. Ik is intended to rendezvous in Kiag George's, Sound, and thence proceed to the principal ports of the different colonies. THE OKHMAN ARMY. Berlin, January 23. The Minister of War has announced in the Beichstag that Germany does, not intend to increase the htrength of her army. Received January 24tb. 11 a.m. CHESS, London, January 23. A match between two chess, players, Steinita and Gunsberg, resulted ia the former winning seven games and the letter four, and eight were drawn. FAILURE. Mitchell and Shepherd, worsted spinners of Bradford, have suspended payment. The liabilities are £70,000. THE RUMORED DISSOLUTION. Lord Salisbury denies there will be an early dissolution. LORD CARRINGTON. Lord Carrington, epeaking at a. banquet given by the Lord Mayor of Londqn, testified to the resolve of the Australian colonies to remain British at all hazards, and their determination to keep their Anglo-Sa*on origin pure, Lord Carrington has contributed an, article to the Times stating that the Australian Admirals' precedence was, fixed wholly in the interests of the colonists in the event of war. It was, not intended to lower the rank o| colonial Governors. CRISIS IN BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro, January 23. President Fouseca has quarrelled ■with and dismissed his Ministry. Congresa refuses to legalise all the aots of Fonseca's dictatorship. PORTUGAL AND AFRICA, Lisbon, January 23. The Mozambique Company baa been granted for the purpose of exploiting Portuguese East Africa. France provides the bulk of the capital. Received January 25th, 10.25 a.m. ELECTION '.' PETITION. London, January 23. A petition against the return of Ml Furaess for Hattlepool is threatened on the ground ,tbat, as a. member of the Shippjug Federation, he promised to employ only trade unionists, QSITUARY. ■ Brussels, January 23. Prince Baldwin of Belgium died suddenly from jpneumonia. {Prince Baldwin Is the eldest son o? Prince Philip. Count; of Flanders, brothef of (jhe Kinj? of Belgium. He was born a* Brussels on the 3rd June, 1869, and was, * captain In the Belgian army.] Received January 25th, 8 p.m. DISASTROUS COLLIERY E& PLOSION. Berlin, January 24. A serious collery explosion has taken place in .Westphalia. Sixty, persons were killed outright, ajqd forty others injured. PAMARALANp. ' Iμ % memorandum to the Emperor, the Chancellor, General Yon Qaprivi, declares that Damarland, a country on the coast of South-west Afijioa, is worthless to the Germau Empire, and urgea the, sale of it to England, i BLIZZARD IN RUSSIA. St. Phtbrsbubg, January 25. A buzzard has passed Qver Charkow, a, city of European Russia, and JPftny fteUted fiUeges. have been burned, and railways blocked. Numerous, deaths a^ereported. BETROTHAL. London, January 24. It is reported that Princess Vipfcoria of Wales is betrothed to the Duke of Luxembourg. CURS FOR ANTHRAX. Professor Hankin, an Epgliah bacteriologist, claims to have dieQovered a cure for anthas in sheep-? VIGTOHIAN LOAN. Mr Munro, the Premier of Victoria, insists on the proposed loan; of that colony, being issued at.gar t banks advice that a lower price should he, fixed. , MR BRADLAU.GH SINOTGL The latest bulletin states thafc Mi Bradlaugh is sinking. THJS WEAKER. The 'severe weather throughput Europe, has broken up. MADAME MELB& IN RUSSIA. Sr. January g4. Maiame Melba'e Juliet ia €h)aaod'B " Borneo et Juliette." has beea ft great success io St Petersburg. Oa the first njghb she was re-called thirty times and -was Bpeoially $hauked by the Czar. Madame Melba was made; the- recipient of nmneroos and vaJftabJe; praaßnte. ■• QUEENSLAND SEPARATION. A diacoision oa the eepai mfcioa iof Queensland will shortly bd raised Jα , the House of Commons, THE fiMPEJROfi OF O?lB||4NY. Bbrliw, January §4, r The Emperor wiil pay a viaifc to Spain in the spring.