HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11103, 23 October 1901, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Frees Association—By Electric j Telegraph—Copyright. { COMPANY RECONSTRUCTION. • (Received October 22nd, 9:15 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. Mr Whittaker Wright proposes to combine and to reconstruct the London and Globe Finance Corporation and the British America Standard Exploration Company, with a capital of two millions, half to be in new shares. APPOINTMENTS IN IRELAND. Mr George Wright, Solicitor-General for Ireland, has been appointed a Judge of the j High Court of Ireland. Mr James H. Campbell, King's Counsel, succeeds Mr Wright. [Judge Wright's promotion has been rapid, as it is just a year since he was., appointed Solicitor-General. Mr Campoefl hoe for some time been Senior Crown prosecutor for the county aod city of Dublin. He has had a distinguished legal career, is fifty years of age, and from 1898 till last year was M.P. for one of the divisions of Dublin.] CABINET AND THE COLONIES. '' Lord Beauchamp, late Governor of New South Wales, speaking at* Brhctonj favoured €he' Cabinet consulting with representa- > tives of the colonies on the questions of foreign policy and Imperial defences. Tie Australians up country, he said, afforded material for the finest sccuts in. the world, and England ought to. send an organising staff there. ACROSS THE ALPS IN A BALLOON. (Received October 22nd, 9,20 a.m.) BERNE, October 21,. Spelterioi, the Italian aeronaut, crossed ths Jungfrau range, in the Alps, in a balloon. ANTI-DUELLING CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY. • • •_ BERLIN, October 21. , Nine thousand residents in Berlin, in* eluding former officers of the army, have appealed to the public of Germany to , assist in an anti-duelling campaign. i IMPORTANJT LEGISLATION IN INDIA. BOMBAY, October 21. The North-Western Provinces and Oudh Tenancy Bill has been passed by the Provisional Council at Allahabad, consisting of nine Europeans andi six native members. Out of a total of fourteen members present, three natives dissented. Sir Antony P. McDonnell, LieutenantGovernor, declared that the Bill would powerfully conduce to the prosperity of the provinces' agriculture, strengthen the foundations of Britisu rule, benefit the' Zemindars, and help the Ryots and landlords.