HOME AND FOERIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11751, 27 November 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOERIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. ATTEMPTED MURDER BY DEPUTY. LONDON, November 25. . A man named Says, a boardinghousekeeper, has been remanded at Cardiff on a charge of offering Mouchard, a Frenchman, £10 to cut the throat of Mr Joseph Havelock, general secretary of the National Seameu'a Union. THE VICTORIAN LOAN. Tho ecrip of the Victorian conversion loan is quoted at 93|, and the Treasury bonds at 98J. THE PACIFIC CABLE. Sir Horace Tozer, the representative in England of the Queensland Government, after reading Dr. Thompson's paper on Queenslande progrera and resources, atthe Royal Colonial Institute, denied that the i Pacific Cable was losing money. | A SHIP COLLISION. The ship Cunba, leaving Liverpool for Sydney, collided with another vessel, and returned to port. She will probably have to discharge part of her cargo. RETURN OF ANTARCTIC! •-■ EXPEDITIOSr BERLIN, November 25. Doctor yon Drygalski'a Antarctic expedition in the steamer Gauss, returned to Kiel, and was welcomed by Prince Henry of Prussia. PORTUGUESE RAILWAY ROBBERIES. LISBON, November 25. Many Portuguese railway officials are implicated in systematic robberies of foreign mail trains. ILLNESS OF THE CZARINA. ST. PETERSBURG, November 25. The Caarina is suffering from protracted inflammation of the ear, which i* causing anxiety owing to the inner organs being inflamed. INTERNATIONAL COURTESIES. (Received November 26th, 10.36 p.m.) PARIS, November 26. A British Parliamentary party, accompanied by the Agents-General, is visiting France. It waa warmly feted at Calais and .Paris.