HOME AND FOREIGN

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11565, 23 April 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN

THE FAMIXK IX WEDCX. I.OXDOX. April 21. ReiiSsurhiiT advico.-s hava been i octived of iik.* rtliei of the famine iv Svodcn. COACRMAXS SOX AS PRLNCE. William Brown, a coai-iiman's wn, who married tho <-x-(.';>iii;tt-.*s ai the l'ortsaiouih r«\:i>. , iy Office in December, bas been arrtKcJ for m;ikin-r ;i. false sto-to-lr.i'nt, liiuiM'lf as Priniv Stuart Mf.deiKi. the ton of the Kuip'.'ror of Austria. THE b:;kxe. April 21. 'Hi? strike at B.iplo h.m iIAJRCOM AXU TilK ITALLVX nOVEKX.MKXT. RO.MK, April 21. Marconi nud 1 . , a free pift. of apparatus to the Italian GoYoriiineat- Ti.e receipts from me?t-;ij;t!.-j from the tflvlvo ft-itioM gu to the Government, and those irura phips U) th-e Jlnrconi Coinp:uiy. The .Stata iinpiwos ;i h'xel iajc on cacli in:s-'.sr;o bryond tho ordinary cu:;t. AMEiUC'AX SHIPBUILDING TRUST.. SEW YORK. April 21. The Morgktn Tru?:, securing control, wili uir-nasp Cra.nir>'a Yaiti* at Philadelphia an a tubfirlnry cja'.pany. AN OVFZIDUE SHIP.

The Frenuh i;hip Bu Cou-die, vliioli sailed from 'San Francisco for Sydney v.-ith wheat on December 24th, has been re-insured at a, premium d 87 guineas per c<:at-.

[The following pura-graph with reference to the ••T»ove whip appeared iv lli-j " Svduey Daily 'JLVlegrapii , ' of April 4t:i:—•'Sunn.--sixteen or ■seventeen <ia\s having elapsvd sintv> the French .barque Dv C'uuodic should have finished 'her voyago. to Syclm-y from San Francisco, under ordinary ivi-ithir conditions, »omc anxiety Ls felt for •iu-r cafeiy, a-nd the French Consul 'has (been making inquiries as to her probable whereabouts. The ci'ptnin of the American four-m?..su:-d lurquentine James Tuft, at. prosc-nt in N<nvcaetle, has reported that* lie triyhU'd the overdue vessel ou the voyavra to- Sydney, and soon after ran into heavy weather. Hie vessel had a succession- of gaits between Tahiti and Tonga-, and , Ihe. cajitaiii of the J&ine-s Tuft thought -the Dv Gou-jdic would experience -the cam* bad weather. Tho Dv ■CVniedio in a m<c\ barque of 1732 tons. Sho -was biiiK. at. Nantt.s in 1901, ard i.s owned by ;i French company, Mr 1?. Gini!on, of • "Xunties, being, the- ma migi-r. Captain Pignorel has ■command of tli.i barque, and fh<> h;>* on board a full cargo of wheat from San l-'ra-iici-'sco ito the agency of Messrs Davio.s and Ft-lio-n, of Sydney."] ESCAPE OF'FISHING FLEET. The American herring iket., which was imprisoned in the ico noes of Bay Island for three months, Iras eeca.ped. AN ASTRONOMERS' TRUST. Professor Pickering, of Harvard Observatory, proposes that a trust, representing all the ob.servatorks in tho world, should work them without any waste, and provide money and men where t.hey aro needed. THE SAN DOMINGO REVOLT. The Government troops in San Domingo vainly attacked tho capita], and MitsLained a hundred casualtif.-.. The Minister of tho Interior and fwo generals were killed. "THE BALTIC." (Received April 22nd, 11.24 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. The Lord Mayor opened "The Baltic" Mercantile Shipping Exchange, in St. Mary Axe. It is tho handsomest and eompletcst building of its kind in the world, costing half a million.

NEW ZEALAND BARRISTER'S BANKRUPTCY. Sir William Wa.vUii'.eys, barrister of New Zealand, ha-s been cleclan'd bankmpt on his -»vife"t> petkian. His liabilitii-s are iJSOCO and his rtfiset« nil. Iv the €our.so oi his examination -be attributed hie failure to his wife's litigation. ENGLISH EMPLOYEES IN ZsIOROC'CO. English employees -at Fez have refused to depart unites the French military mission le.tvt.s simultaneously. BY PRODUCTS AT CHICAGO. (Mr H:ir.ibury. sp;;d<i::;* on agricul'tuiiil vote, ?aid thot owing to the profitable u«* mav'.-u cf ott'al at. Chicago it paid the Americans better to send dead meat than live eatille to Gnat- Britain. RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. ST. PETERSBURG, April 22. Tlw> Russian Geogitiphi-cal .Society is fiemling a (scientific expedition tc- Mesopotamia. REPRESSING BETTING HOUSES. NEW YORK, April 22. Albert Adams, a wealthy lottery orgar.f Now- York, nitk-nanie<l "The Policj- King," was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for keeping a betting estabiichmecit-. GERMAN ASLATIC RAILWAY COMPANY. BERLIN, April 22. A G-erman Asiatic Railway Company has been incorporated with a capital of half a million sterling, nominally to construct Chinese Stato raihvavs.