BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1733, 22 April 1895, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

, Per Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Pbr Press Association. \ ; COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. V London, April 19. > Oscar Wilde and Taylor have been > committed for- trial, : I } THE ASWANLEY. I i April 20. Arrived— Aswanley, from Lyttelton I (Feb.2otsh). '■'■-'■■ ' ' - ' ■ ! --i -^ ■■ OBITUARY. ■■■■■>! ■ r . Thfe death' is announced : of Mr George i Scharf, one of the directors of the'Na- . tional Art Gallery ; aged 75. ■• j : ; PERSONAL. ' :•••»■- --. The tnarriage of the Duke of Aosta to ' Pi'incess Helena, second daughter of the ! late Comte de Paris, takes place at : Twickenham oii JuueiSth.^ : .'r-TflE-OXfOBD SEAT. l , ■;.■•■■• .^ : ■ .;-^;-' rV'y ■ ■ April 21, - ■The flection . for the Qxfbrd sefat m the House pf ] Conimp^s, ocpipisipned by ' the sudden deathvpf ; Sir G.;T. O.hj.suey,, \ resulted inthe return of Viscount Valen- ' tine, the Conservative candidate, who > defeated Dr Little, Liberal, by 602 votes. THE TRANBVAAL, •. I : iOApEiowN, April 20. ' The Volksraad of the Orange Free i State, have carried a motion m favour of , conferring on the Tiansvaal. relative federal unionilaws.: . ; PAPAL PASTORAL. Rome, April 20. Affer the visits of Cardinal Vaughan and Lord Halifax, the English Church , Union and other ritualists to Rome, the Pope issued a long special Pastoral to the English people enjoining Catholics to pray for the re-union of the churches. CUBA. sTw' York, April 19. The revolt m Cuba is spreading.