HOME AND FOREIGN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1069, 20 October 1882, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

The bodies of two Indies have been cremated at Blanford, in Dorsetshire. Admiral Seymour is lo receive the title of Baron Alcester. Sir Garnet Wolseley’s title will remain unchanged. The Australian cricketing team concluded the match on Saturday last against eighteen of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and won by nine wickets. A Parliamentary Blue Book relating to the Channel Tunnel shows that with the exception of Sir John Adve, the whole of the military clitics pronounced against the work being proceeded with. The Right Hon. Leonard H. Courtney, M P. for Liskeard (Cornwall), and Financial Secretary to the Treasury, addressed his cons'ituents at Torpoint on October 13, In the course of his speech he referred at length to the Egyptian question, and stated his opinion that Egypt must be required to , defray all expenses attending the suppression of the rebellion in that country. Lord Northbrook, the First Lord of the Admiralty, addressed a crowded meeting at Liverpool on the 10th October. In the course of his speech he stated, in referring to the state of affairs in Ireland, that a decided turn for the better had been mani fested in that country, and that the Irish were now evincing a desire to suppoit the law. Serious floods have occurred in the midland counties of England, and have caused a vast amount of damage. 1