HOME AND FOREIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8947, 3 August 1892, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Prm AsK>ciat{on.—BUctrie Ttheraph.—Copytlokk ST. LAWRENCE CANALS. London, August 1. Great Britain is urging the Canadian Government to deepen the St. Lawrence canals sufficiently to give a passage to gunboats. The cost is estimated at 2£ millions. A CONFESSION. London, August 1. A prisoner at Glasgow has confessed that he was employed to assist in the murders of Lord Leitrim and Mountmorris by the man who shot Carey, the " Irish Informer," at the Cape. MR. O'BRIEN AND~ HOME RULE. ,r ™« • London, August 1. Mr. O'Brien says it is impossible for Liberal treachery to defeat Home Rule, but it is quite possible for Irish dissension to do so. THE FRANCHISE AT THE CAPE. Capetown, August 2. The Franchise Bill, increasing the qualification to occupation of property worth £75, has passed both branches of the Legislature. ELECTION PETITION. London, August 2. The return of Hon. A. J. Balfour for the East division of Manchester, will be petitioned against on the grounds of illegal practices. STRIKE IN~NEW YORK. New "Xokk, August 1. The builders of New York have struck against a reduction of wages. Fifteen thousand men are affected. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. London, Augusts. It is understood that the nomination of the Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel as Speaker of the House of Commons will not be opposed. THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER. London, August 2. The Duke of Manchester shows a slight improvement, and his condition is easier.

THE FEENCH PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS. Paris, August 1. The Republicans have gained a hun« dred seats in the French provincial elections. THE ILL-TREATMENT OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER. Washington, August 1. The case of the soldier, James, who was punished for sympathising with the Idaho strikers, is exciting public indignation all over the United States. The Central Labour Union has demanded that all workmen in the National Guard shall resign. MOUNT ETNA QUIET. Rome, August 2. Mount Etna is again quiet. THE REVOLT IN VENEZUELA. Cakacas, August 1. The rebels now have complete possession of Venezuela. THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. London, August 1. Lord Mayor Evans has been knighted. REPORTED DYNAMITE PLOT. Paris, August 1. A report, not, however, confirmed, is current that an attempt was plotted to dynamite the public buildings at Versailles. OPPOSITION TO MR. MORLEY. London, August 1. Mr. T. Milvain, Q.C., formerly member for Durham, will oppose Mr. Morley's re-election at Newcastle. DEATH OF DR. FORBES-WATSON. London, August 1. The death is announced of Dr. ForbeeWatson, the Indian authority. TH,E DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Madkid, August 1. The discovery of America by Columbus, in vessels supplied by the sovereigns of Spain, will be celebrated by a joint naval display. DEATH OF AN EARL. London, August 2. The Earl of Bathurst is dead. [The deceased nobleman was the seventh earl, the title being created in 1772. Hβ was born in 1832; and was M.P. for Cirancester from 1857 to 1878 in the Conservative interest, at which latter date he succeeded to the title. His son Lord Apsley will now come into the earldom of Bathurw.]