HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11008, 4 July 1901, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. AMERICAN YACHT TRIALS. . (Received July 3rd, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 2. In a thirty-mile trial at Newport, the yacht Columbia beat the Constitution. FORMATION OF A LEAD TRUST. A lead trust has been formed with a capital of twenty million dollars to control the output of lead in south-east Missouri. ELEVEN BOYS KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Lightning struck a pier in Chicago and killed eleven boys who were fishing. FRANCE AND MOROCCO. PARIS, July 2. A squadron of eleven battleships haa gone to Tangier, (Tangier, a seaport town in Morocco, is situsrted a* the western entrance to the Stra!- of Gibraltar, thirty-five miles southwest of Gibraltar, and eight miles east of Cape Spartel.) ' SUCCESSFUL COLONIAL SHOTS. LONDON, July 2. J. Hawker, of Adelaide, won the Gun •Club's International Cup and lOOgs. A. W. Eales, of Sydney, won the Minor Cup and £150. NATIONAL BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

The National Bank of New Zealand balance sheet shows a profit of £63,293. A dividend of 8 per cent, has been declared, and a bonus of 2 per cent., £30,000 has been carried to the reserve, and £8293 carried forward.

THE CORONATION. (Received July 3rd, 10.36 p.m.) The Earl of Norfolk, Lord Esher, the Bishop of Winchester, and twelve others are to be appointed the executive committee to arrange for the King's coronation. CONSPICUOUS SERVICE CROSS. (Received July 4th, 12.20 a.m) LONDON, July 3. The Conspicuous Service Cross has Wen conferred on the late midshipman, Cymbeline Huddart, son of Mr Huddart, of Huddart, Parker and Co., who fell in the battle of Graspan. The deceased was a midshipman on the cruiser Doris.