GENERAL NEWS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 453, 18 October 1897, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

(Per Press Association. — Copyright.)

London. Oct. 15

Mr John Charles Bigbain, Q.C., M.P. for Exchange (Liverpool), has been appointed to succeed the late Sir Lewis "William Cave as a Justice of the Queen's Bench.

The Court-martial to inquire into the recent grounding of the torpedo destroyers Thrasher and Lynx off the coast of Cornwall, when one of the Thrasher's steam pipes burst, killing lour stokers, has severely reprimanded the commander of the latter vessel. The commander of the Lynx was acquitted of blame. Archbishop Vaughan states that the converts to Rome in England number 700 per month. News has been received from West Africa that British forces have occupied several posts on the north-western frontier of the Lagos hinterland, and that the French forces are retreating to Boussa. Mr Sellar. a London merchant, has made a valuable present to the Corporamen of 200 Dutch, Italian, and English pictures. Oct. 16. Authority to establish a mint at Perth, West Australia, has been gazetted. Lord Londonderry wrote to the Northern Union of Conservatives' Association, which is sitting at Newcastle. attacking the injustice of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain's Workmen's Compensation Bill, and complaining that the Conservative principles of a number of Conservatives disapproved of that gentleman's Radical home policies while admiring his Imperialism. The association re-elected Lord Londonderry president and endorsed his views. Hope was expressed that Sir Wilfred Laurier's policy would cement closer the commercial union cf the Empire. A resolution of confidence in Lord Salisbury was also carried. Obituary—The Very Rev. Charles John Vaughan, D.D., Dean of Liandaff and late Master of the Temple. Sofia, Oct. 15. It is reported that Bulgaria proposes to enter into an offensive and defensive alliance with Turkey. Great unrest prevails in the Balkan States. St. Petersburg, Oct. 15. The Government is considering a scheme of uniting the Black and Baltic seas by a canal. New York, Oct. 15. In the recent conflict between a sheriff's party and a body of unarmed strikers at Coleraine, Pennsylvania, among those shot down at the sheriff's orders were a number of Hungarians. The Austrian Government is now demanding a heavy indemnity on behalf of the relatives of the victims of the shooting. Romf., Oct. 16. The Pope has instituted an order under the title of the St. Ulphice Confraternity having for its object the conversion of England to Roman Catholicism. Ottawa, Oct. 16. Canadian brokers protest against any interference with the gold standard. They declare that silver is an unsuitable basis for banking and commercial transactions. St. Petersburg, Oct. 16 The Czar has decided to take measures for Russianising the Germanic communities in the western and southern provinces of Russia. Athens, Oct. 16. The Admirals of the foreign fleets in Cretan waters insist that the Albanians shall replace the Mussulman gendarmes in Crete owing to the habitual condoning of offences by the Moslems. Berlin, Oct. 16. that Germay has intimated to the Transvaal that she regards the recent alterations in the «' dynamite concessions to the British as an unfriendly act. Adelaide, This day. At the League of Wheelmen meeting Sampson won the South Australian championship in Imin 22secs. The New Zealanders—Body, Forbes and Hunt—won the multicycle race in (Jmins lpsecs.