HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10262, 3 February 1899, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Presa Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.

A LUCKY ACTRESS. Miss Olga Nethersole, the well-known actress, has inherited £40,000.

(Miss Nefchersole visited Australia in 1890. She is twenty-nine -years of age, was educated privately in London, Holland, and Germany, and made her professional debut at the age of seventeen years at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, in Henry Hamilton's drama, "Harvest.") CANADA v AUSTRALASIA. The Agent-General for New Zealand is greatly impressed with the success of the direct trade between Canada and Manchester. Canada is a powerful rival of Australia in the grain, dairying, and meat trades. The question of the establishment of direct trade from Manchester with New Zealand deserves the attention of tiie Hon. John McKenjde when he visits England. THE AUSTRALASIAN CLUB. The Australasian Club conversazione was heJd at the Imperial Institute. Four hundred were present, and the gathering was a great success. EGYPTIAN MIXED TRIBUNALS. . The Powers have prolonged the existence of mixed tribunals in Egypt for a year. A CLERGYMAN'S SUDDEN DEATH. Dr. Berry, a well-known Congregational minister at Wolverhampton, whilst officiating at a funeral at Bilston, in Staffordshire, dropped dead whilst praying at the , grave side. Death ia supposed to have been caused by heart disease. (The Rev. C. A. Berry, D.D., was pastor of Queen street Congregational Church, Wolverhampton, since- 1883. He visited America three times, and travelled in the East in 1886. In 1891-2 he visited Australia and New Zealand. He was called to succeed the kte Henry -"Ward Beecher at Brooklyn in 1887, but declined the offer. ,He was educated at a private school in Southport, and at the Airedale Independent College in Yorkshire. At the time of histfeath he was 46 years of age). - IRISH UNIVERSITIES. February 2. The Catholic Conference in Dublin, supports Jtfie Irish. University claims. Mr Dillon paid a high tribute to Mr Gerald Balfour's disinterested action in regard to the universities. , THE BULGARIAN MINISTRY. "The Times,'-' commenting on the new Bulgarian Ministry, says that M. Grekoff, the Premier, intends to adopt a conciliatory policy. MR CHAMBERLAIN ILL. LONDON, February 2. Mr Chamberlain is indisposed. He is suffering from an attack of gout. MAJOR MARCHAND. • PARIS; February 1. M. BonvaJot, a French explorer in Abyssinia, has started froni Adisabeba, Shoa country, Southern Abyssinia, with stores, to assist Major Marchand, who is traversing the swamps on the , Abyssinian frontier, en route from Fasboda to the' East Coast. One of Marchand's staff has written to Paris saving tljat March&nd's expedition was aghast at the order to evacuate Fashoda. FRANCE AND ITALY. February 2. The Senate has ratified the treaty with .Italy.-' -■■ ■• •'■ -' : ' ; ' ■ ■■•.-.'.■ ' : THE CONGO EXPEDITION. • BRUSSELS, February 1. Advices from Congo state that Lbtfcaire's. native 'soldiers have joined the insurgent. Batelas. Lothaire is a prisoner and wounded. It is believed that Lieutenant Docrme and others of the expedition have been killed. THE KHALIFA. CAIRO, The Khalifa altered his, course owing to lack of water. Colonel Kitchener has arrived at ADba Island in pursuit. THE MACEDONIAN* TROUBLES CONSTAifTINOPLE, Pehruary 2. Turkish official circles * accuse Great Britain 6t exciting for thei-pur-P o * 6 °* .j?y°lyH»sr'. |l»«tta in European complications,thus •acuring for Great Britain a free hand in the Far East. GERMANY AND TfiE JESUITS: ' ' BERLIN, February 2. The Bill providing for there-admission of the Jesuits fee passed it* third reading in the Reichstag. --—-a...