HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9737, 27 May 1897, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS.

foeea Association—£y Telegraph—Ccpgrrlght. AUSTRALIA AND GREAT BRITAIN.

London, Hay 25. Speaking at a dinner given by the offioers of the Queen's Westminster Volunteers, Colonel Lasseter, commander of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, said that Australia gloried in Great Britain's isolation. Hβ maintained that a united Empire would be able to resist the world. ENGLAND AND MADAGASCAR. England has abandoned her Consular Courts in Madagascar. COMPLIMENT TO THE QUEEN. Reports from the Tranv&al state that a Royal Salute was fired on the Queen's Birthday, and both branches of the Yolksraad adjourned in honour j of the occasion. j THE OPPOSITION IN SPAIN. Madrid, May 26. The members of the Opposition id the Cortes have decided to absent themselves from the sittings until the Duke of Tetuan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, who during the recent disturbance in the Senate over the Cuban question struck Senor Covas, resigns. FATAL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Berlin, May 25. An explosion of 3000 kilogrammes of dynamite at a factory at Krummell killed four and wounded, eight workmen. ALLEGED FORGERY AND PEKJUBY* The trial has commenced of Herr Tausoh, late Commissioner of Police, who ia charged with perjury and forgery,, and Herr Lutzow, a Berlin journalist, who U charged with forgery. The case arose out of a political libel action, heard in December last, when Lutzow was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment and Tausch was suspended from duty, and arrested on suspicion of wilful perjury. The libel consisted in the publication of statement that an incorrect version of the Czar's speech at Brealau was the outcome of an intrigue in high quarters. In the course of yesterday's hearing Imfczow declared that Tanscii directed him to publish a statement that the affection of the ear from which the Emperor William was suffering was of a cancerous character, and was inherited from hie father., SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT. A sensational accident happened in the city. A showman was firing at a glass ball placed on his sister's head, but missed the mark and the shot entered the woman's mouth, causing instant death. SCENES IN THE AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT. Vienna, May £6. Startling scenes occurred in the Reichsrath during the debate on the question of compelling officials in the parts of Bohemia inhabited by Czechs and Germans to make themselves cognisant of both languages; The Opposition violently menaced Count Badeni, hurled inkstands at the President,, and .am&shed the desks. sceneß, which were characterised by the use of the coarsest invectives, tested for hours, INDIAN RELIEF WORS. Calcutta, May 26. There, are nearly four million persons employed on the Indian famine relief works. , < V RAIDS BY PERVJSHES. . Ojobo, May 25v ; The Dervishes are raiding Tokai, and have fortified a town in Upper Ethiopia, seventy miles south of Suakim. , CAPE COLONY AND THE NAVY. Capetown, May 26. A resolution will be moved in the Cape Legislative Assembly, by Mr. J. Rosd Innes, that Sir 3.Q. Sprigg be requested to arrange with the Imperial authorities, the basis _of a contribution by the Cape Colony to the Navy.