HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11278, 20 May 1902, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. A'STEAMER ASHORE. (Received May 11th, 9.21 a.m.) LONDON, May 18. The steamer Deptford, bound from London to Sydney, has gone ashore at Las Palmas. The fore hold and main hold have been pierced, and the entire cargo is being discharged. [Las Palmas is the chief town in the largest of the Canary Islands.] A RUSSIAN LOAN. The "Daily Telegraph" states that after President Loubet's return, a Russian loan of twenty millions sterling will be issued in France, Belgium, and Holland. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT RECESS. The House of Commons lias adjourned to May 26th, and the House of Lords to June 2nd, for. the Whitsuntide recess. LORD PAUNCEFOTE. NEW YORK, May 18. Lord Paunoefote, the British Ambassador to the United States, is ill, and his condition is critical. [The Right Hon. Sir Julian Pauncefote was born in 1828. He has been Attorney-Gene-ral of Hong Kong, Chief Justice of tie Lee-ward-Islands, and Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Lord Pauncefote was the first British delegate to the Conference at Paris for drawing up an Act relative to navigation in the Suez Canal (1885), and the first British delegate to the Hague Peace Conference in 189 S. He has been the British Ambassador to the United States since 1893.] ENGLAND AND THECOLONIES. " (Received) May 20th, 12.55 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. Mr Chamberlain, in his speech at Birmingham, referring to the foreign commercial policy of competition and the new conditions arising from the creation of Trusts, strongly urged that it was the duty of England to seize the opportunities for closer union offered by the colonies.