HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8479, 10 May 1893, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

PtMt _«oa_aio_—Slsetrio •Sdagenpb— Oegv_U_t. THE BOMB EXPLOSION. London, May S. In connection with the explosion of a dynamite bomb at the Dubliu Law Courts the chief of the Dublin police states that he expected tbe explosion, but has not giveu a reason for his anticipation. __ Dublin paper was found in the yard marked "Last shot." There is no clue to the perpetrators of the explosion at the Dublin Law Court. ATTEMPT TO FIRE HULL. Tlie Times states that a deliberate attempt was made to destroy the town of Huii by tire. THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. At the opening of the Imperial Institute, the royalties will divide into a quadruple procession, headed by the Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke of Connaught and Duke of Edinburgh. PRINCESS MAY'S TROUSSEAU. Ttte Princess May's wedding trousseau will be made entirely of English and Irish material: COLONIAL GOVERNMENT STOCKS. The Times deprecates investors sell-, ing Colonial Government stock, as it is utterly needless to become alarmed. THE VANCOUVER MAIL SERVICE. In tbe House of Commons the Under-Secretary for the Admiralty stated that Mr Huddarc had not applied to tbe Admiralty for a subvention for the Canadian Steam Service, aud he was unable to say whether the Government would subsidise the mails. OBITUARY. Lord Petre is dead. [The Right Rev. William Joseph Petre, thirteenth Baron, was born February 26th, 1847, and succeeded in 1884. His Lordship was a priest of the Church of Rome, and occupied the position of domestic Prelate at the Court of the Vatican. He was co-heir to the Baroness of Howard, Greystoke, &c. He is succeeded by his brother the Hon. Bernard Henry Phillip Petre, born May 31st, 1858, formerly Lieutenant Ist Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment. The late Lord had three brothers and eight sisters living at the time of hia death, and three of the latter are nun 3. A grandson of the 11th Baron Petre, Mr Francis William Petre, married a daughter of Mr J. Cargill, of Dunediu.] REGISTRATION OF FOREIGNERS. Paris, May 8. The Chamber of Deputies has unanimously resolved in favour of tho compulsory registration of foreigners, and a watch is being kept on their changing residence. ALLEGED DISFRANCHISEMENT OF FRENCHMEN. Ottawa, May 8. The French press in the Dominion allege that the Government officials have tampered with the census and disfranchised fifty thousand Frenchmen. PAPAL ENCYCLICAL. Home, May 8. The Pope is preparing an encyclical to the Great Powers on the question of military burdens. He Buggests the disarmament of Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain, but is willing that Russia Bhould only partly disarm. THE CRISIS IN NORWAY. Christiana, May 8. The new Tory Government, which recently succeeded the Heen administration, has been defeated on a want) of confidence motion. LORD GLASGOW, AND THE COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS. London, May 9. The Times, commenting upon a Parliamentary paper relative to the dispute between Lord Glasgow and tbe New Zealand Ministry respecting the appointment of Legislative Councillors, saye a precedent has been established which will reduce the range of questions left to the discretion of Colonial Governors to the vanishing point.