London vid Bombay, 25th May.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Pauncefote. GC.B, G.C.M.G., is dead—Reuter.
[Julian Pauncefote was appointed Attorney-General at Hongkong in 1866. (In 1874 the order of G.C.M.G. -was -conferred-upon him, and he was subsequently appointed Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands, but- remained there -a very short time, as he was transferred to -Loridon: as Assistant Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. In 1876 he became Assistant Under Secretary of State for "Foreign Affairs, and in 1°82 Permanent Under Secretary of State in the same department.
1883 he was appointed. First British Delegate to the Conference at Paris for drawing up an Act relative to navigation of the Suez Canal, and in 1889 was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and. Minister Pletiipotentiary to the United States, which post was exalted to. that London vid Bombay, 26th May.
Experiments with a Submarine boat have taken place at Barrow in the presence of the "Lords of the Xamiralty, who for the first time made a descent in one. A result of the trial has: proved that it will be necessary to provide a more powerful secondary amiament to warships. The necessity was also shown for capped. projectiles—Reuter.
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