HOME AND FOREIGN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIII, Issue 228, 28 October 1887, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A WIFE. REPORTED RECOVERY OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW. AMERICAN RAILWAYS IN CHINA. (SI'KCIAL TO UNITED P&ESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Ocfc 25. Mrs Trevannion, a daughter of Sir Daniel Cooper, of New South Wales, has prosecuted her husband for assault by blackening her eyes, and he was sent to prison for six weeks. Despite the proposal of the Government to increase the Austrian sugar bounties, the export duties are likely to be abolished if the Bounties Conference m London is successful. It is reported that H.M.S. Calliope has picked up the crew of H.M.S. Wasp, which is supposed to have foundered off Singapore. The proprietor of the Wexford People has been sentenced tv a month's imprisonment for inciting people to attend a League meeting. The Marquis of Hartington, speaking at Nottingham, said no modifying could make Mr Gladstone's Irish proposals acceptable to the Unionists. He complains of the despotism of Mr Gladstone, and considers his offer of the disestablishment of the churches of Scotland and Wales is really bribery. Oct. 26. The report that the Chinese Government, had withdrawn the concessions granted to the American syndicate for the construction of railways, etc., is denied, and it is stated that the agreement was signed on the 12 th October. Sullivan, the pugilist, sails for Australia shortly. The survey of a line of railway to Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific naval station, will be commenced immediately. Beetroot sugar is quoted at 13a 3d, and 13 still advancing.