HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 8810, 27 April 1892, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] [Feb Press Association. 1

LONDON, April 25.

(Received April 27,1802, at 10.80 a.m.)

The Rev. T. M. Morris has been chosen president elect of the Baptist Union. Lord Salisbury has instructed the British Consul at St. Petersburg to prevent the emigration of Jews to England. April 26, ' Newfoundland refuses to accept the modus vivendi offered by Canada. The district vestries have asked Mr Henry Tate to renew his offer of an endowment in favor of the National Art Gallery, and urge the Government to give a prominent site. Gisborne harbor stock has fallen L 5. A cargo of South Australian wheat has been sold at 36s 6d.

SINGAPORE, April 25. Twenty-five Malays have been arrested for the murder of Messrs Stewart and Harris at Pahang, WASHINGTON, April 25. The Senate rejected the new Chinese Exclusion Bill and continues the present law instead for ten years. BERLIN, April 25. Negotiations for a commercial treaty between Germany and Russia have been postponed till September. NEW YORK, April 25. It is reported that the Venezuelan rebels have won another victory at Valencia,

OTTAWA, April 26, The Canadian Government agree to reduce the duties on British goods to the event of the latter reciprocating. The Behring Sea arbitration cost L 30.000. ROME, April 26. King Humbert has consented to a reduction of L 40,000 to his civil list. PARIS, April 26.

The Colombian Government will probably annul the concession granted to the Panama Canal Company, on the gronnd that the company have violated the terms by the stoppage of the work.

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LONDON, April 26. (Received April 27. 1882, at 10.45 a.m.)

The Hon, Patrick Greville Nugent, charged with serious assault on Miss Marion Price in a first-class railway carriage on the London-Brightou line, has been committed for trial, The evidence adduced at the trial proved the lady to be of good character and well connected. The assault was committed while the train was passing through a tunnel, and the young lady gave warning to the guard by palling the alarm. The latter made inquiries in East Croydon as to the woman’s assailant, and he was arrested in London.

BERLIN, April 26. Jaeger, the absconder from Messrs Rothschilds’ Bank in Frankfort, took with him L 60,000 in cash.