HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Issue 11564, 22 April 1903, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. AIRSHIP EXPERIMENTS. W LONDON, April 20. Count Zoppelin has abandoned his airihip experiments, which cost him a million marks. PROTEST AGAINST MEMORIAL COMMUNION SERVICE. Many aristocratic ladies, including the President and Vice-Presidents (ladies) of the League for the Defence of the Reformed Faith, have strongly protested against the Army Guilds proposal to told a Memorial Communion Service in St. Paul's Cathedral tin commemoration of the soldiers who fell in the Boer war. They declare that it is an attempt to introduce to the Cathedral a requiem mass for the dr-ad, after a lapse of 350 years. The Chief Chaplain has resigned his membership of the Guild, after refusing his sanction to the service. The Archdeacon of London strongly opposes the service, which he declures is obviously largely Roman Catholic in character. HONOR PRINETTI. ROME, April 20. Signor Prinetti, Minister for Foreign Affairs, is resigning, in order to facilitate his restoration to health. STATE-AIDED EMIGRATION. (Received April 21st, 2.59 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. It is reported that the Colonial Office contemplates an early and important extension of State-aided emigration in conjunction with the South African Government. THE TAXPAYER'S BURDEN. The "Standard" says the British Budget will not abolish any duties, but will only propose small revisions of rates. KRUGER'S OLD HOME. CAPETOWN, April 20. Eloff, Kruger's son-in-law, has purchased the ex-President's residence at Pretoria. RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN FRANCE. (Received April 21st, 11.4 p.m.) PARIS, April 21. Demonstrations, followed by arrests, occurred in several districts of France through the enforcement of the decrees against unauthorised religious orders. A SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC. LONDON, April 21. The smallpox epidemic is assuming serious proportions in Leicester. LOCK-OUT OF 30iO00 MINERS. , , NEW YORK, April 21. A lock-out of thirty thousand colliers has occurred in the Shenandoah district, through the men refusing to work nine hours on Saturdays. THE MERGING OF THE NORTHERN COMPANIES. NEW YORK, April 21. That , portion of the injunction forbidding the Great Northern and Pocifio to pay dividends to the Northern Securities Company has been suspended, pending the appeal to the Supreme Court. Judgment is expected to be delivered in November. [The injunction referred to was made by a United States Circuit Appeal Court, restraining the Northern Securities Company from acquiring or voting on the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railway's stock at the latter Company's meeting, inasmuch as it was acquired in virtue of a combination in restraint of trade among several States. The decision created a sensation on Wail street. Mr Pierpont Morgan is appealing against it to the Supreme Court.]