HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10270, 13 February 1899, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. A, CHINESE RAILWAY LOAN. LONDON, Februarj- 10. Thje loan of two and a-half millions, for the extension of the Shan-liai-kwan RaiJwav tc« Niu-ohwang, in Northern China, has been I subscribed fivefold. NEW FRENCH COALING STATION. It is reported that the Sultan of Muscat, , South-east Arabia, has leased Bandarjiska, a land-locked and fortifiable position at the head of the Arabian Sea, to France as a coal- . ing station. It is understood that the British Government have protested, and sent a , cruiser. T\ro British cruisers are already in the vicinity. CLERICAL RIOTS. ■ PARIS, February 10. ■ Clerical riots have occurred at Lille, re- , suiting in twenty-five arrests. The riots were the outcome of the arrest of Isaie, a teacher in the Christian Brothers' School, who charged the secretary with strangling a pupil named Foueaux. TRAGEDY AT A CHINESE LEGATION. February 12. An attache of the Chinese Legation in Paris shot Lie Yung, the first secretary of the Legation, dead, and then committed suicide. He was labouring under the hallucination that he was being persecuted. i A DESPERATE STEP. NEW YORK, February 10. One thousand Indians pillaged the houses at the Corecoro mines, Bolivia. An offer was made by the manager of the mines to spare the lives of occupants. It was refused, whereupon the manager shot his wife and then committed suicide. The mines are the property of Chilians. FRANCE AND ITALY. ROME, February 11. The Senate has ratified the commercial convention with France. GERMAN AND PRUSSIAN CONSOLS. BERLIN, February 11. I The issue of German and Prussian con- » sols to a large amount, which it was recently • announced had been taken up by the Deutsche Bank, has been subscribed twenty fold. THE PURSUIT OF THE KHALIFA. CAIRO, February 11. Colonel Kitchener, having found 4 the Khalifa in a strongly entrenched position at . Lake Sherkeila,, has returned to the Nile ! for cannon for the purpose of bombarding . him.