HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11660, 13 August 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. DIPEBIAL POLITICS. LONDON, August 11 Tlie Savings Bank Bill has been dropped, and tho Port of London Bill postponed till 1904. In the House of Lords the Sugar Bill was read a third time. MISS AMY SHERWIN. Miss Amy Sherwin has been invited to represent the English singers at the unveiling of the Wagner monument at Berlin in October. Sho will sing at an international concert. HURRICANE IN JAMAICA. A hurricane in Eastern Jamaica did great damage to the banana estates. KING EDWARD ON THE CONTINENT. King Edward is starting for the Continent to-morrow. He remains at Marienbad incognito until August 31st, when he proceeds to Vienna as the King, on a formal visit to the Emperor. AMERICAN COTTON CRISIS. NEW YORK, August 11. Twelve more cotton mills, representing 750,000 spindles, in America, have stopped. No relief is expected until the new crop is available in six weeks. SCIENCE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP. (Received August 12th, 10.2 p.m.) LONDON, August 12. The Exhibition Commissioners have granted Mr Kenneth Inglis, of Christchurch, another year's science research scholarship. WELCOMING FRENCH VISITORS. The Folkstone -Chamber of Commerce welcomed 467 members of the Union of Commerce of Calais, who aro visiting Folkstone and Canterbury. PENNY POSTAGE. Mr Austen Chamberlain, replying to a correspondent, said it would be difficult to adopt penny postage with America and refuse it to others. The sacrifice of revenue from tho establishment of international penny postage wou'd be so great that the proposal of such a scheme was not justified. THE ABDUCTED GIRL. BERLIN, August 12. The police recaptured Frieda Sittel, who was abducted from an asylum the other day. HURRICANE IN MARTINIQUE. NEW YORK, August 12. A hurricane destroyed several villages in the island of Martinique. EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. ROME, August 12. An earthquakei damaged houses and stopped clocks at Naples and Mes.«ina. The shock was felt at Catania, Malta. Canea, and throughout Greece. TliTee villages in Cythenv were almost- entirely destroyed. " ANARCHY IN SOUTH RUSfc.A. ST. PETERSBURG, August 11. Six hundred and four arrests have been made at Baku. The peasants are not allowed to send cattle to tho abattoirs. Meat is f»carce, and there are great hardships. Work is being slowly resumed.