HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7778, 4 February 1891, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION/! Received February 3rd, 10.15 a.tnt "IVANHOE." London, February 2. Sir A. Sullivan's grand opera "Ivanhoe " has been produced at the English Opera House with great success. Received February 3rd, 10.25 a.m. DOCK CHAEGES. London, February 2. mere is a growing discontent with the system of dock charges which comes into operation to-day. Received February 2nd, 7.30 p.m. THE VICTORIAN LOAN. London, February 2. The market is lukewarm over the South Australian loan, and the Banks consider that a minimum of 98 ought to be sufficient for the proposed Victorian loan. Received February 4th, 1&20 mxl SEIZURE OF A BRITISH BARQUE. London, February 2. Intelligence is to hand that the Venezuelan Government has seized tha British barque Lydia Peachan. THE DECIMAL SYSTEM. ! Mir Goachen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, declines to introduce the decimal system. GERMAN COLONISATION. ; Bbbijn, February 3. The German Sonth-wesfc African Company, with a capital of one million pounds, has received a charter for the purpose of exploring German territory in South-west Africa. AFFRAY. WITH NEGROES. Nsw Yobk, February 3. Miners working at Carbon Hill, Alabama, have driven out the Negroes working there. The latter stubbornly resisted, and in the struggle seventeen of their number were killed.

FRENCH CONVICTS IN THE PACIFIC. Paris, February 3. The Supreme Council, which decided infavor of recognising colonial trading companies, also recommend that they be permitted to employ convicts at the French penal settlements in the Pacific.