HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11546, 31 March 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY. LONDON, March 29. The New Zealand Shipping Company has declared an interim dividend of 5 per cent. ENGLISH SOCIETY WEDDING. The marriage of Lady Sybil Primrose. of Lord with Lieutenant Giant, of the Co'ditrearu Guards, was celebrated yesterday. BACK FROM THE DURBAR. The Duka and Duchess of Connaught have arrived in London from their visit to India. MURDER OF A GERMAN OFFICIAL. BERLIN, March 29. News has bo<n received that a slave in the Goimaa Cameroon* murdered Count Fugger, t!ie German administrator of Northern Bornu. THE NEW AMERICAN MACHINE GUN*. NEW YORK, March 29. The Cleveland machine gun, firing eight hundred one-pound projectiles per minute, has been t<j.st.rd in Nc-'.v York. Geueial Miles declare* that it is the must wonderful and deadly machine mm in existence. the mad mullah. (Received March 30th. 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, March 30. ' The Mullah is at Daooli, eighty miles north of tha position the Abyssinian force is camped. ' HUMILIATED CHINESE COURT. The Chinese Court, after the ceremony of worshipping at tlw tombs of the Imperial family in April, retires to Pao-ting-fu, where it remains as long us possible, owing to the humiliation it feels at residing iv Pekin under foreign guns. LAUNCH OF NEW P. AND O. BOAT. The Moldavia, the largest steamer of the P. and O. Company's fleet, has been launched at Greenwich. MARCONIGRAMS FOR THE PRESS. The New York correspondent of "The Times" daily transmits Marconigrams to his paper. The cost is little in excess of the telegraphic rates between England and France. [The first message of Marconi, who arrives in Liverpool to-day, to the newspaper Press of the world "was the notification of the birth of a. child. Thus message may be found reproduced in the advertisement columns of the "Times" of January Bth. The message read as follows: — " 'Times, , London.—Please insert following in birth column: January 3id, the wife of It. N. Vyvyajii, chief electrical engineer, Marconi Canadian station, of a daughter. (Sgd.) G. Marconi." At the same time another message was sent to Mrs Frawley, \ mother of Mr.s Vyvyan. It read:—"Frawlay, Weyiuouth.—Daughter bom 3rd Jan. I Both well. (Sgd.) Vyvyan.'' Both messages, says the "Advertiser," came through without the slightest hitch, notwithstanding that a severe storm was raging on both sides of the Atlantic at the time of transmission.] DISGUSTED BOERS. CAPETOWN, March 30. Many Boers, disgusted at the tyranny of the German Ea«t African /officials, are leturning, to Cape Colonyxfrom Damaraland. ' A BULGARIAN-TURKISH AFFRAY. SOFIA, March 30. Eighteen Bulgarians and iifteen Turkish troops were killed or wounded in an encounter at Istib, a town forty miles southeast of Uskub. THE ANATOLIAN RAILWAY. BERLIN, March 30. Baron Goltz, lecturing at Konigsberg, "said Great Britain had consented to the terminus of the Anatolian railway, which .a German syndicate is constructing, being at Koweyt. CUBAN RECIPROCITY TREATY. NEW YORK, March 30. The Cuban Senate has accepted the American Senate's amendments to the reciprocity treaty. KAISER'S VISIT TO COPENHAGEN. COPENHAGEN, March 30. The walls of Copenhagen are placarded with warnings to the Kaiser not to pay hie proposed visit. Some of them threaten "Death to tlia tyrant." SUPERSTITION IN BERLIN. BERLIN, March 30. Frau Rothe, a spiritualistic medium in Berlin, has been sentenced to eighteen montlis , imprisonment for conducting a deceptive seance. Astounding discloeures as to the existence of superstition in the highest aristocratic circles -were made at the trial. RELIEF FOR RUSSIAN PEASANTS. ST. PETERSBURG, March 30. The Czar's manifesto relieved the peasants of arrears of taxation amounting to eleven and a half million pounds.