HOME AND FOREIGN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2903, 20 February 1893, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN

(PER PKESS ASSOCIATION,)

IMPERIAL PENNY POSTAGE

London, February 17. The deputation to the PostmasterGeneral, relative to Imperial penny postage, has been postponed for the present. Mr Henniker Hea'ton, M.P., in a letter to " The Times," asserts that he possesses written and verbal authority from the Colonial Governments for stating that they would assent to England creating a penny postage throughout the Empire. COLONIAL GOVERNORS. In the House of Lords Lord Oaslow gave notice to ask the Government if the statement by Sir G. ft. Dibbs, that no Governor of New South Wales shall be appointed until his name be submitted to the Government of the colony, is correct. FROZEN MEAT. Mr Gladstone states that he is willing to facilitate enquiries as to the applicability of labelling to frozen mutton. THJS EXPELLED M.P. Edward S. W. DeCobain, formerly member for Belfast East, who in April, 1891, was accused of a gra^e criminal offence, and who fled to Ppain, has been arrested in. Belfast and will bs placed on his trial.

EGYPT. I

February 18, I The P. and O. Company's steamer Arcadia has conveyed to Suez a battery of artillery suddenly ordered to Egypt. Constantinople, February 18. Osman Pacha replaces Mukhtar Pacha asHighOomrnissioner for Turkey in EsvDt.

FOOTBALL.

February 19. The annual football match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities was won by the former. Yorkshire won the county football championship. THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS. The Marqnis of Kipon. Secretary of State for the Colonies, has promised to inform the House of Lords of the effect of the recent additions made to the. Legislative Council of New Zealand.