HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9289, 14 December 1895, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Prtss Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ASHANTEE. London, December 12. Native messengers who have reached the Gold Coast describe the town of Cooraassie as undermined, and report that trains have been laid ready to blow it up when the English troops appear. RESIGNATION. Mr N. C. Wallace, the Canadian Controller of Customs, has resigned. He objects to the Catholics being allowed to maintain separate schools. 'The Times thinks that his secession will render the Government's course Of action difficult. THE P. AND 0. COMPANY. December 13. At the annual meeting of the P. and 0. Company, Sir Thos. Sutherland, the Chairman, said the Company would probably expend a large sum of money during the forthcoming year, if the mail contracts with Australia are renewed. He hoped that the Imperial Government would remember that both France and Germany were attempting to oust the British Companies in the carrying trade to the colonies. Sir Thomas pointed out that throughout the contract with the P. and 6. Company the mails had been delivered at Adelaide at an average of eighty-three hour 3 ahead of tbe contract time. He also said that it was impossible for short-pariod contracts to be as efficient as those over long term?. FRANCE A2?D THE VATICAN. Paris, December 18. The Chamber of Deputies, by a majority of 165, rejected a Socialist proposal for abolishing the Embassy at the Vatican. M. Berthelot declared that the concordat prevented it.