BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

West Coast Times, Issue 10113, 22 May 1895, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

London, May 20. The Daily Chronicle considers that go)d results will attend the proposed Chamber of Commerce Congress.

Mr Gladstone will visit Kiel on the occasion of the opening of the Baltic canal.

The Times urges the immediate appointment of a commission of seven> with either the Duke of Devonshire or the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain as PreBident, be set up to thoroughly investig ite the working of the War office and rectify alleged gross maladministration.

It is believed Lord Carringtbn will be created an earl with the title of Earl of Wendover.

Owing to the heat at Colombo, Carbine suffered from a spasm in the bladder. Mr Day, the Duke of Portland's stud groom, who isiaccompanying the horse, tapped him and had a very anxious time as it was feared that the son of Musket would succumb, but he recovered and landed in perfect condition.

Stoddart will manage the next team of English cricketers to visit Australia in 1897.

It is rumored R. C. Baker, C. M. G., President of the South Australian Legislative Council, will be made K.C.M.G., and G. Hawker, ex-Speaker and ex-Minister of the Crown of the same colony, Knight Bachelor. _

Wilde and Taylor are being tried separately, the latter being taken first. Sir E. Clarke opposed 'this course, but afterwards asked Wilde's case should be postponed till next session. The judge, however, said he would wait for the result of Tavlor's case first before decit

ing. The evidence of Parker and Woods as to the conduct of Wilde in Taylor's room -was taken to-day and remained unshaken.

Egan, convicted of participation in the dynamite outrages in Ireland, has been released from gaol. The personality in the estate of the late Sir Robert Hamilton, ex-Governor of Tasmania, is sworn at under £12,000, in which the widow is granted a life interest. Obituary — Dr Honeyman of Auckland. Washington, May 20. The Naval Board has decided on the compulsory retirement of Admiral Mead,

of the United States Navy, who publicly

declared that he regretted being compelled to remain in-active against the British during the latter's action in Corinto,

Nicaragua. The decision has been endorsed by President Cleveland.

The Supreme Court maintained the illegality of the income tax. Yokohama, May 21. The Great Powers have requested the Japanese Government to notify the additional indemnity required by it for the cession of the Liatong Peninsula. St. Petersburg, May 20. Count Kustorog, one of the richest land-owners in Russia, has been shot dead in the public gardens at Minisk by another nobleman.

Shanghai, May 20. Li Hung Chang's son, the Governor of Formosa, has been instructed by the Chinese Government to hand the island over to the Japanese.