BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10309, 30 March 1894, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

ST ELECTRIC TSLEaRAPU.—COPTSI(fRT.\ [Special to Press Association.] SIR GEORGE GREY. LONDON, March 28. It is expected that Sir George Grey will have au audience with the Queen. ICEBERGS, Twenty large icebergo are blocking the ocean road between New York and England. THE'POSTAL CONFERENCE. The Pall Mall Gazette slates that the Postal Conference revived the arguments of those opposed to Sir Rowland Hill when he advocated cheap postage. THE BIMETALLIC CONFERENCE. The Bimetallic Conference will open in London on May 2, ROYAL WEDDING. BERLIN, March 28. It has been arranged that the marriage of the Grand Duke of Hesse to Princess Victoria of Coburg (daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh), ia to be the most brilliant of the preaent time. The wedding will be solemnised at Coburg in a week, THE RUSSIAN FLEET. ST PETERSBURG, March 28. It ia reported that the Czar, at the Sultan’s request, has sanctioned the Russian fleet visiting Stamboul. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. VIENNA, March 29. The Social Democratic Congress sitting at Vienna threatens a general strike, in order to secure universal suffrage. THE HEARS AGE. WASHINGTON. March 29. Wreckers plundered and burned the hull of the Keareage. A SENSATIONAL STORY. PARIS, March 29. Figaro publishes details, said to be supplied by M. Fiourens, ex-Minister, of negotiations between France and Germany when MM. Ferry and Busson were Ministers in 1887, upon the basis that France should drop the idea of revenge for the loss of Alsace and Lorraine, and that Germany should help her to oust the English from Egypt. A change, however, of Ministry ia England, and the accession of Lord Salisbury to power, upset the negotiations.