HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10867, 17 January 1901, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

I United Tress Ar*ociation—By Electric I T"'e.'rv''"—C-Tiyrijt'.!. I EVICTED TENANTS IN SLIGO. (Received January lo'.h, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, January 15. The North Sligo Executive of the United Irish League has stopp:-d hunting in all ! Sligo, until Colonel Campbell, Master of the j Hunt, reinstates evicted tenants. ! IHE CABLE SERVICES. The Hon. Henry Copeland, having eliminated a superfluous proviso, has signed the Eastern Extension Cable Company's agreement. Sir A. Clarke, Agent-General for, Victoria, is awaiting instructions from ins Government. THE ADMINISTRATION OF DARFUR. CAIRO. January 15. Slatin Bey has arranged with the Sheikh Alydinar to administer the province of i Darfur, under Anglo-Egyptian control. LONDON. Jarin-v 15. A MILLIONAIRES MARRIAGE. I Mr Aiired Vand-vrbilt hys uvr.rr.cd Miss | Elsie Ftench, cf Newport. The bridegroom | Kettkd three-quarters of a million pounds ; or. the brid". \ TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN A FACI TORY. An explosion at Wilson's hat factory, at Denton, Manchester, killed twelve, and mutilated forty, persons. ARREST OF A NIHILIST. (Received January 17th, 12.28 a.m.) LONDON, January 16. A Nihilist, Prince Nakachine, has been arrested at Nice. Document* found at his residence in Paris showed that he had con--1 nection with a plot to assassinate the Czar |if he visited Nice. Other accounts declare ! that Nakachine is a swindler. I OCEAN TELEPHONY. NEW YORK, January 16. Dr. Pupin, of Columbia University, claims to have- solved the problem of ocean telephony, enabling communication between San Francisco and London, but he admits that the method is enormously expensive. RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS IN FRANCE. (Received January 17th, 12.28 a.m.) PARIS, January 16. The debate has opened in the Chamber of Deputies on the Religious Associations Prohibition Bill.