HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9300, 30 December 1895, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. IMPERIAL CUSTOMS UNION. London, December 2S. The Statist newspaper has received seventy-eight essays for the £1000 prize offered by it for the best scheme for an Imperial Customs Union. Several are from the colonies. THE CUBAN REBELLION. Madrid, December 27. Castillo, Minister of the Interior, declares that not an inch of territory will be yielded in Cuba until conquered. The rebels are advancing on Havana, to which place Marshal Campos is returning. ALLEGED FRAUD AND FORGERY. Berlin, December 29. Baron Hammerstein, ex-leader of the Tory party, has been arrested at Athens on charges of fraud and forgery. DISTURBANCE IN THE TRANSVAAL. Pretoria, December 28. There is serious friction in the Transvaal owiqg to the Uitlanders organising a programme for equal rights. The National Union had formulated a programme demanding a true republic, a settled constitution, an equitable franchise and the equality of the Dutch and the British. Many prominent Uitlanders are endeavouring to restrain the Union leaders. President Kruger is quietly preparing to resist any trouble. Maxim guns have been imported and a quarter of a million sterling has been expended on forts at Pretoria and Johannesburg. A FATAL PANIC. Washington, December 28. In a theatre in Baltimore a fire created a panic, twenty-four persons being killed and forty injured.