HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9110, 22 May 1895, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Frew Aasooiatioa—By Telegraph—Copyright BIBTHDAY HONOUBS. London, May 20. It is rumoured that the Hon. R. C, Baker, C.M.G., President of the South Australian Legislative Council, will be made a K.C.M.G., and Mr G. Hawker, ex-Speaker and ex-Minister of the Grown for the same colony, a Knight Bachelor.

THE WILDE AND TAYLOR

CASE.

Wilde and Taylor are being tried separately, the latter being taken first. Sir E. Clarke opposed this course, but afterwards asked that Wilde's case should be postponed till next session. The Jndge, however, said that he would wait for the result of Taylor's case before deciding. The evidence o£ Parker and Woods as to the conduct of Wilde in Taylor's room was taken to-day, and remained unshaken.

THE WAB OFFIQE COMMIS-

SION.

Tlie Times suggests that the Commission to inquire into the administration of the War Office should include delegates of the great industries, and that, in the event of his being in office, Lord Rosebery should preside instead of the Duke of Devonshire.

RELEASE OF A DYNAMITER.

Egan, who was convicted of participation in dynamite outrages in Ireland, has been released from gaol.

ESTATE OF SIR ROBERT HAMILTON.

The personalty in the estate of the late Sir Bobert Hamilton, ex-Governor of Tasmania, was sworn at under £12,000, in which the widow is granted a life interest. A PEOTEST. May 21. Dr. McGregor, M.P. for Inverness, has resigned his seat in the House of Commons owing to Sir William Harcourt refusing to facilitate a Bill for improving the position of the Crofters.

BEQUESTS TO RELIGIOUS

SOCIETIES.

A Bolton lady has bequeathed the sum of £82*000 each to the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the Church Pastoral Aid Society. LORD SELBORNE'S CASE. The Vacating Seats Committee has decided that the eldest son of a Peer on the death of his father is ineligible to hold a seat in the House of Commons. This will probably govern the case of Lord Selborne (Viscount Wolmer).

THE CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS. Brussels, May 20.

The Catholics in Belgium have appealed to the Vatican to condemn the Christian Socialists, owing to their propagating a revolution likely to endanger the State. The Pope has summoned Abbe Dacus, the leader, to explain his action.

THE RECENT EARTHQUAKES.

.Rome, May 20. The earthquake shocks were also felt at Bologna and Pisa.

THE BEHRING SEA FISHERIES.

Washington, May 20. The Government is. not willing that Canadian delegates should attend the Behring Sea Fishery Conference here in October next, and will only negotiate with Great Britain over sealing in Behring Sea.

COMPULSORY RETIREMENT OF

AN ADMIRAL.

The Naval Board has decided on the compulsory retirement of Admiral Mead, of the United States Navy, who publicly declared that he regretted being compelled to remain inactive against the British during the latter's action at Corinto, Nicaragua. The decision has been endorsed by President Cleveland.

THE EASTERN CRISIS. Yokohama, May 21. The Great Powers have requested the Japanese Government to notify the additional indemnity required by it for the cession of the Liaotong peninsula.