HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7279, 8 April 1889, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[PUR PRBSS ASSOCIATIO-..3 Received April 6th, 10 a.m. MISS MARY ANDERSON. London, April 5. Miss Mary Anderson is reported to be recovering. The statement that she is suffering from mental affection has been denied. Received April 6th, 1 j_m. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. London, April 4. At the meeting of the Bank of Australasia, Mr T. Sutherland, M.P., Director, stated the Bank did not expect to experience any difficulty arising out of advances on land in Melbourne. CROFTERS' EMIGRATION. • Two hundred and eighty crofters have been despatched to Canada by the Assisted Emigration Society. THE QUEEN. Her Majesty the Queen is much improved ia health by her recent trip to Biarritz. Before leaving the latter place her Majesty made a donation of three thousand francs to the poor of Biarritz. LIBEL. The Pall Mall Gazette has been cast in £1500 damages in a libel action. PRAIRIE FIRES, New York, April 5. Terrible prairie fires have occurred in Dakota State, spreading over a vast extent of country. Hundreds of the residents have been rendered homeless, CRISIS IN RO__MANIA. Bucharest, April 5. The Roumanian Ministry has resigned. Received April 7th, 6.30 p.m. DEATH OF THE NEGUS OF ABYSSINIA. Rome, April 6. Signor Crispi confirms the news of the death of the Negus of Abyssinia, and states that although the moment is auspicious Italy will not be seduced into rash adventures in Abyssinia. NAUTICAL ENQUIRY. London, April 6. At the nautical enquiry into the circumstances connected with the ship Sir Walter Raleigh going ashore on the French coast, the Board found that the master of the vessel was to blame for the accident, and suspended his certificate for nine months. SIR H. ROBINSON. After the expiration of the Easter holidays Sir Hercules Robinson will return to the Cape. SIR DILLON BELL Sir Francis Dillon Bell, New Zealand's Agent-General, has gone to Paris, where he will remain until after the opening of the Exhibition. VACCINATION. Mr C. T. Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board, has appointed a Royal Commission to enquire into the working of the. Vaccination Act. SUGAR BOUNTIES. Tbe Sugar Bounties Convention will re-assemble on May lst. TEMPERANCE IN CANADA. Ottawa, April 6. Twelve of the couuties and two of the cities of Ontario have decided in favor of the adoption of the Temperance Act. THE MELBOURNE BOOM At the meeting of the Bank of Australasia, on Friday, Mr T. Sutherland, one of the Directors, explained tbat advances made by the Institution were prudent, and made without reference to the enhanced value to which land went during the recent boom. TRADE RETURNS. The statistics of the Board of Trade show that the value of imports and exports for the last quarter is thirteen and a half millions in excess of the corresponding period last year. OBITUARY. London, April 6. The Duchess of Cambridge is dead. [H.R.H. Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa' Duchess of Cambridge, was the widow of the first Duke of Cambridge, and mother of the present Duke. She was a daughter of H.S.H. Frederick, Landgrave of Hessel Cassel, and was upwards of 91 years of age, being born on July 25th, 1797. Her Royal Highness resided at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, Surrey.] Reoeived April Bth. 1 a.n_. TEN SHILLING NOTES. London, April 7. It is rumored that notes of the value of 10a will shortly be put in circulation. ALLEGED PLOT AGAINST THE PRINCE OF WALES. This morning the Leicester police received a letter to the effect that during the races it was intended to assassinate H. S- H. the Prince of Wales.