HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11441, 27 November 1902, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Preee Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. YORKSHIRE WOOLCOMBERS' ASSOCIATION. (Received November 26th, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, November 25. fhe bankew have stopped the overdraft tt the Yorkshire Woolcombers' Association. A meeting of the debenture-holders has been called. (Received November 27th, 0.16 a.m.) LONDON, November 26. It ie expected that the Yorkshire Wooliombers , AMOoiation will reconstruct. The trade of Yorkshire is absolutely unaffected by the Aesociation'e position. a shipping: insurance scheme. Members of shipbuilding and engineering •oewtiee employed by the Shipping tion, encouraged by the success of insuring members against risks under the Workmen's Compensation Act, propose to establish s> similar insurance in regard to fire. CHOLERA IN PALESTINE. One hundred and six deaths from cholera have oocurred in Jaffa, Palestine, in a week. JAPAN AND SHANGHAI. Japan has notified China that she reserves the right to re-occupy Shanghai, if ih« other Powers do so. AN ENGLISH BYB-BLEOTION. The bye-election for Orkney, which was necessitated by Mr J. C. Wason'e secession from the Unionist Party, resulted:—Mr Wason, Independent Liberal, 2413; Mr Wood, Radical, 2001; Mr Angier, Unionist, 760. IRISH DISCONTENT. . Mr John Redmond, M.P., speaking at Bermondsey, said Ireland hod become more disloyal and discontented since Mr George Wyndham took office as Secretary. It was im!«Bs to introduce a Land Bill on the lines >f the last Bill, tfcough the situation ma propitious for settlement. THE CZAB AND THE QUACK.. ST. PETERSBURG, November 25. Phillips, the American spiritualist, has left Russia owing to representation* made by the Court paysk&uu and other*. [A cable massage, despatched from Loodon on Monday . lwrt . said: —"Berlin" aid Vienna newspapers ataert that an American spiritualist named PhiHipe ha* a remarkable influence over the Csar, who takes no important decision, em in family life, without consulting Phillipe. The labor's peychio treatment is reported to baTC exercised an unfavourable effect on the Csar* faa."] ■ . ■ ■ ■ ■ •:■:■.:-■.,■■ ■■;. ■ HERR KRUPP'S WILL. BERLIN, November 25.. The late Herr Krupp's widow has been made hi* iole heiress, his eldest daughter succeeding to the factory, which the will provides is sot to be sold or turned into a company lor a quarter ot a century. CANADA A&fD THE NAVY. OTTAWA, November 25. Mr Borden, the Canadian Minister of Militia, and a member of the' Nary League of Ottawa, Bays the Canadian Government .■ will consider a scheme for making Canadian branches of the League as a naval force available Imperially. DISOOUBAGED VOLUNTEERS. , (Received November JT7th, 0.16; α-m.) ' i , LONDON, November-26. Thousands of Tolnoteen have retired owing to the new regulation*. There is » great decrease of recruits, and a shortage of 1500 offices. . GREAT BRITAIN AND TURKEY. (Reoeived Norember 27th, 1.26 a.m.) i - LONDON, November 26. The "Daily Chronicle'a" Vienna correspondent states that Turkey refused Great Bntaia permission to establish a coaling station at Bassowah, ■ } ' ■ THE AFGHAN FRONTIER. .• ■ ! The "Daily Mail'e" Odessa correepondent reports that there are ten thousand Russian troops massing on the Afghan frontier. DISEASE IN THE FRENCH ARMY. ■ (Received November 27th, 1.35 a,m.) PARIS, November 26? ( General Andre in the Senate admitted that shoe iSe Treaty of Frankfurt the : <!«><he from disease in the French Army had been 99,000, ac against 13,000 in the ; German Army. The average mortality in ( the French Army was 2174 a year, chiefly ' from typhoid and consumption, against 74 % year in Germany. ') ■ AN EXQUEEN-β CLAIM. NEW YORK, November 26. ; LiHuakalani, ex-Queen of Hawaii, is suing tho United States for three million ' doUars, the value of the Crown lands an- • ncxed in Hawaii by the United States. \ THE EVACUATION OF SHANGHAL LONDON, November 26. In the House of Commons Lord Cranburne stated that the Powers agree simultaneously to withdraw their troops from Shanghai as soon as transports are procurable. THE GERMAN TARIFF. ' BERLIN, November 26. ' Count Yon Bulow has arranged a compromise with a majority of the Reichstag relative to minimum duties. He has great hopes that he will obtain a majority sufficient to oarrv the tariff.