HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11117, 8 November 1901, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. • ENGLAND ENVELOPED IN FOG. (Received November 7th, 9.44 a.m.) LONDON, November 6. Fog is general in England, and hundreds of vessels are weatherbound. GENEROUS BEQUESTS" TO"*LONDON HOSPITALS. ■•;.-■ Mr Matthew Whiting, of Wandrworth Common, has bequeathed £10,000 to each of twelve London hospitals. ' ;- AMERICAN RED-GUM v AUSTRALIAN HARDWOOD. *\,, The Westminster Vestry Works Committee justifies the red-gum paving contracts, and '■, asserte that the ratepayers' interest* are being properly safeguarded. ", .'■ 1 PROMOTIONS ON THE OPHIR. The following promotions have been made among the officers of the Ophir: —rCommander Wemyss to be captain; liieutenant Ruck Keene to be commander; Sub-Lieute-nants Bainbridge and Saurin to Be lieutenants ; Surgeon Hill to be staff surgeon; As-sistant-Paymaster Gask to be paymaster. COMPETITIVE DESIGNS FOR NEW .BATTLESHIPS. The Admiralty contemplates relying in future on the competition between the great" private firms to furnish designs for new bat- S tleships. THE KEXNINGTON BANK TRAGEDY. The Kennington Bank murderer, who in a desperate attempt at robbery kilted the cashier, and afterwards shot himself, has been identified as a railway fireman named Porter. NEW YORK'S RETIRING MAYOR. NEW YORK, November 6. Mr Van Wyck, the retiring Mayor of New York, was defeated for a Supreme Court Judgeship. ■. " ■- ■ PLOT TO MURDER AN AMERICAN GARRISON. Officials and others at Moceda, in the Philippines, have been arrested for plotting ' tie murder of the American garrison. MINERS' PENSIONS IN FRANCE. PARIS, November 6. M: Waldecfc-Rousseau introduced a Bill in the Chamber of Deputies, devoting five million francs to give the miners entitled to a pension in pursuance of a law of 1894, three ■ hundred francs per annunt :' ! A DISINTERESTED OFFER DECLINED. I TEHERAN, November 6. ! The Shah declined Russia's offer of a thou-1 sand Cossacks as Palace Guards.