HOME AND FOREIGN.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1041, 30 May 1883, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(SPECIAL, TO PRESS ASSOCIATION,)' ■, .:-,. T . r j -LONDON, May 23. E Six ranks of soldiers . and citizen guards lined the, route °f the Imperial procession in Moscow, and tlie ; Czar rode calmly along. Doctor Macfarren has accepted the proffered honour oLknighthoqd in connection with the opening of the Royal Academy of Music. R.i Baron De Lessep’s Suez Ganal Company request the English Government to support the project for obtaining the land,required for/the . construction of a : second canal parallel with the present canal, pramisingHinWeturh of charges and increased powers of control to England. -v n May 24. ' The first of the new gunboats buildims fnr the ■Yi° tor^an Government will JjjWadncbdd' at - Newcastle onThe 6th of Fifty suspected persons, Lave been arrested in -Moscow. - The Right Hon. W; E. Forster, addressing the Aborigines Protection Society, insisted that if' New Guinea was annexed all hostility,?!; towards :i the natives, and slavery, nnder whatever disguise, should be strictly forbidden. ‘. -V' I ,’ Am '\ n M?y ; -25.-;r In the House of-Gords, Earl Granville, S.lftClfor .Foreign Affairs, expressed regret at the French action with regard to Madagascar. ~ The Egyptian Minister of the Interior has; been dismissed from office on the ground of bribery. ■/ Archbishop Croke states that bo will obey ; the mandate of the Pope. i Her Majesty the Queen proceeds To Balmdral. to-day. r ' . The Antbck railway bridge Over the Indus has .been .opened. ~ ~ ; The. Morning Post says that The Queensland and Fijian planters have a right to defend themselves before an impartial Commission; -from- the charges brought against them of misusing black labour.