HOME AND FOREIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8882, 19 May 1892, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. THE SMALL HOLDINGS BILL. London, May 18. The Small Holdings Bill has passed through Committee in the House of Commons.

THE FEMALE FRANCHISE. London, May 18. At a meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation, Lady Aberdeen presiding, a motion proposed by Lkdy Carlisle, to the effect that the women franchise question shall not be made a test question at the next general election, was adopted.

THE IRISH LOYALISTS. London, May 18. The Irish loyalists have collected £10,000, to enable them to fight the forthcoming general elections. THE GENERAL ELECTION. London, May 18. The Morning Post says the general elections will take place at the end of June or early in July. A QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT. London, May 18. In an action brought by the Times against the St. James's Gazette to test the copyright of certain articles of news, judgment was reserved. THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS. London, May 17. In their first innings the English team have five wickets down for 154, the top scorers for the day being: Gunn, 37 ; Chatterton, 48 ; Dixon, 46 (not out). THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, May 17. Owing to the famine, the Czar has ordered retrenchment to be made in all branches of the public service, and military movements are to be much curtailed for the purpose of reducing the expenditure. THE CANADIAN SCANDALS. Ottawa, May 17. A case brought by the Government to recover from M. Picaud, late Financial Secretary to M H. Mercier, formerly Premier of Quebec, the sum of 200,000 dollars, in connection with the Baie-Chaleur railway contracts, has been dismissed on the ground that Armstrong, the contractor, had not been sued conjointly, and also because fraud and collusion had not been alleged.