HOME AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIII, Issue 224, 24 October 1887, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

By Rl.'Pttie, Telegraph—Copyright. "DSTTED KINGDOM HARBOUR DEFENCE. A LUCKY EARL. RUSSIA AND THE CORN DUTIES. TWO BRfTrSH OFFICERS KILLED IN BURMA!!. {SPEmti TO ITNITRD PPvESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Oct. 20. Captain Carr, of the Royal En- j gineers, has been directed by the War Oflica to prepare a scheme for the complete defence of the harbours of the United Kingdom. The newspapers adversely comment on the appointment, and urge that an officer of a higher position should have been selected. The ship Nancy Holt, from Eureka to Melbourne, with a cargo of red wood, has been sighted waterlogged and abandoned. The German Govern merit has decided to increase the duties on imported corn. An uncle has left Earl Cairns a million sterling. Mr Bayard has ordered the release of the British sealers seized m Alaska. The Leipsic Discount Company has failed, with liabilities of 11,000,000. mark?. Russia proposes to make reprisals if Germany increases the corn duties. The Russian pre.3s admit that the outlook for Prince Ferdinand is more favourable. In a Gght between British troops and Dacoits, Burmah, Major Kennedy and Captain Baville were killed. The Dacoit loss was forty killed. The Canadian press denounce Mr Chamberlain's assertion that the commercial union of Canada and America would mean political separation from Great Britain. Oct. 21. Lord Roseberj', speaking at Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, complained of the apathy of the Government with regard to the New Hebrides, and said they ought to have spared no remonstrance to prevent the French occupation, which meant ruin to the missions already established there. Ulster, he thought, must share the lot of the remainder of Ireland, and was quite able to protect herself. Several large mining companies from Australia are ready for launching upon the market, but experts advise delay, as the market is dull just at present. Nelson's ship, the Victory, while off Portsmouth, commenced leaking badly, and very nearly sank.