HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9126, 10 June 1895, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press Associatio*J -By Tdes*raph---A^pyri'*ht THE N.S.W. TAXATION P_CPOSALS. London, jTine 7. The Globe says that the Now South Wales taxation proposals should afford England a lesson as to what may be expected from manhood suffrage combined with the payment of members of Parliament. ORTON'S CONFESSION. Or ton, in his further confession, states that each step advanced and helped others. Lady Tichborne and the members of the family, in testing his memory, supplied himself with the foundation for his claims to the estates. He admits that the sclo basis for the deception wero the talks with Bogle, Slade and others in Sydney and Wagga, which enabled him to meet the questions put by the family. MOUNT LYELL MINE. The London Board of the Mo_it Lyell Mine, Tasmania, has resigned owing to the transfer of the issue of debentures to the colonies. THE CHILIAN LOAN. The Chilian loan of two millions at 4 J per cent., minimum 93£, has been subscribed twentyfold. PROPOSED RUSSIAN LOAN. The Daily Telegraph states that Russia is about to issue a loan in Paris of seventeen millions sterling at 4 per cent., which she will lend again to China at 5 per cent, in return for permission to extend the Siberian railway through Manchuria. THE CHORLEY SEAT. Lord Balcarres has been elected to fill the seat for Chorley in the House of Commons, vacant through the death of Lieutenant-General Feilden. DEFEAT OF REBELLIOUS NATIVES. News has been received that German forces stormed the stronghold of the rebellious natives in the Cameroons, killing two hundred. The German loss was fifty-nine killed and wounded. THE DUKE OF ARGYLL. A marriage has been arranged between the Duke of Argyll and Miss McNeill, one of the Maids of Honour. [The Duke of Argyll is in his seventythird year, having been born oh April 30th, 1823. He has been twice previously married, in 1844 to Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, daughter of the Duke of Sutherland, who died in 1878, and in 1881 to Amelia Maria, daughter of the late Bishop of St. Albans, who died in January last year.] THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BUDGET. June 8. The Financial Times, commenting on the South Australian Budget, declares that South Australia will be one of the most lightly burdened and most solvent of the colonies. The leading feature of its financial recovery i3it 3 being dominated by Scotch and Germans, who are noted for caution. Few of the colonies invested more in reproductive works, which now prove the turning of the corner. PACIFIC MAIL SERVICE. The Manchester ' Guardian states that the Canadian-Pacific Company will next summer start a fast mail service between Liverpool and Montreal, for which the British Government will grant a subsidy of £50,000. The steamers will be similar to the best Cunard liners, and will be ordered immediately. MURDEROUS OUTRAGE BY PATHANS. Calcutta, June 9. Pathans killed Lieutenant Home of the Engineers and seven Sepoys in' a lonely camp in the Zhob valley. CHINESE LOAN. June 9. It is believed that a Chinese 4 per cent, loan of 400,000,000 francs, with a Russian guarantee, will shortly be issued in Paris. INDEPENDENCE OF JUDGES. The Economist, referring to tha judgments in the cases of Bartlett and Davies in Melbourne, says they partly explain that the escape of the chief Victorian instruments in the banking collapse is inevitable until all the Judges are absolutely independent, and it scarcely wonders that British investors fear political exigency may defeat justice. THE REBELLION IN CUBA. Madbid, June 9. The Minister of War declares he is ready to dispatch ten additional battalions to Cuba, as he is determined to accomplish the complete overthrow of the rebels. TERRIBLE FLOODS. Buda Pesth, June 8. Terrible floods have been experienced in Northern Hungary, and many persons have been drowned. BEDOUIN REVOLT EXPECTED. Cairo, June 7. In Jeddah a Bedouin revolt is expected, as a religious festival has roused the fanatics. The European residents are appealing to the Great Powers to intervene immediately. AMERICAN STEAMER SEIZED. Ottawa, June 9. A Canadian patrol seized the American steamer Ruelle, and arrested the crew for dumping Detroit refuse at the mouth of a river on the Canadian side.