HOME AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 25 May 1888, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Per Electric Telegraph — Copyright

United Press Association.

London, May 22,

The Pacific and Oriental Petroleum Company, with a capital of £400,000, has been registered. Her Majesty the Queen has gone to Balmoral Castle. The match against Yorkshire was won by the Australian eleven by one innings and 64 runs, Mr Licht, the sugar authority, estimates the European beet crop for the current season to be 329,000 tons below the yield of last crop. Obituary—Admiral O’Reilly.

The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph wiring from Berlin, says that the betrothal of Prince Alexander of Battenburg to Princess Yictoria will be announced on Thursday. Belgrade, May 23.

Don Pedro 11, Emperor of Brazil who is on a visit to King Milan, is suffering. from paralysis, and is reported to be dying. The Marquis of Salisbury is communicating wtth M. Goblet as to the expulsion of the Rev Mr Jones, the missionary, from the New Hebrides.

Vienna, May 22

The German Generals have had an audience with the Emperor Francis Joseph, and subsequently made an inspection of the military posts on the Galician frontier. Berlin, May 22. It is stated that Germany meditates imposing reprisals against France in consequence of the latter insulting Germany in crossing the French frontier. The Government intend to raise the duty on imports from Russia 50 per cent.

St Petersburg, May 22. The Government intend claiming indemnity for Russian subjects killed in the recent conflict on the Afghan frontier, and threatens to demand the Governor of Herat.