BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10785, 24 October 1895, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BIT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—OOITRISHT.] [Special to Press Association.] JOURNALISTIC. LONDON, Oct. 22. Mr Tim Healy intends to start a daily paper in Dublin. AN ENGAGEMENT. Mr Dillon is engaged to a daughter of Mr Justice Matthew. THE CINQUE PORTS. Lord Salisbury has been appointed warden of the Cinque ports. OBITUARY. Henry Reeve, formerly Registrar of the Privy Council, is dead; ASHANTEE. ‘ Oct. 23. The War Office states that it has been arranged by Colonel Sir F. 0. Scott, Inspector-General of Constabulary on the Gold Coast, if the answer of the Ashanteea in connection with the threatened war was adverse, that an expedition should be prepared to march against them in a week. THE FRENCH NAVAL PROGRAMME. PAEIS, Oct. 22. The French Budget Committee rejected the votes for the new naval programme, despite the pressure put upon it by the Premier to pass them. THE MADAGASCAR ■ CAMPAIGN. Oct. 23. M. Brisson, in the Chamber of Deputies, eulogised the heroism of the army operating in Madagascar; Thirty decorations are announced therewith. AUSTRIAN POLITICS. VIENNA, Oct. 23. In the Reichsrath Count Badenis, Premier, declared the programme to be popular franchise, a scheme for settling national rivalries and the restoration of social peace. JAPANESE PORTS. TOKIO, Oct. 23. Japan is opening her seaports, including Tokio, to the world’s trade immediately.