HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11536, 19 March 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

A CARNEGIE GIFT. LONDON, March 17. Mr Carnegie has presented a park of nine acres to St. Andrew's University. THE POWERS AND TRIPOLI. Trench officials assert, while the Italian Consul denies, that Great Britain occupied the island of Bombas, off the coast of Tripoli. THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY COMMISSION. Lord Alverstoce (tlie Lord Chief Justice of England), Mr J. 0. D. Armour (the Chief Justice of Ontario), and Mr L. A. Jette (Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec) will represent Britain on tho Alaskan Boundary Commission. INSURANCE OF SHIPS DURING WAR. - Admiral Hopkins advocates that the Government should gratuitously insure, on the outbreak of war, all vessels and cargoes against war risks. He. declares that the late Admiral Tryon approved of this idea. ASSISTING GERMAN EMIGRATION.. BERLIN, March 17. Germany has allotted £15,000 to assist farmers to emigrate to South-west Africa, and has also provided loans for settlers. REFORMING THE GERMAN LANGUAGE. The Kaiser has ordered officials to avoid using involved sentences, and to abandon the method of placing tho verb at tlie eY.d of the sentence. <■ TAX TROUBLES IN PORTUGAL. LISBON, March 17. ! Residents of Coimbra revolted against the collection of rates, and tho soldiers fired on them, killing eight and wounding j many. I THE AMEER OF AFGHANISTAN'S PALAOK. CABUL, March 17. The Ameer's palace has been greatly damaged by fire, but the main block was saved. EXPULSION OF FOREIGNERS FROM PRETORIA. CAPETOWN March-17. Twenty-seven foreigners in Pretoria, who were not provided with permits, have been expelled from the Transvaal. LONDON,- March 18. On St. Patrick's Day the annual distribution of the Quten's Shamrock was made to the Irish Guards stationed at the Tower. ST. PATRICK'S DAY BANK HOLIDAY. In the House of Lords, Lord Dunraven's Bill, making St. Patrick's Day a bank holiday in Ireland, was read a fecond time. PANAMA CANAL TREATY. NEW YORK, March 18. The Senate, by 73 votes to 5, ratified the Panama Canal treat v.