HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12442, 3 March 1906, Page 10

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. | Sir John Forrest, in an interview, dwelt on the various Australian views of defence, and the efforts to obtain the fullest information. He was confident that a just and patriotic course would ( ultimately be adopted. STRUCK BY A SQUALL. A terrific squall dismantled the German barque Hebe, from Hamburg to Melbourne, in tho Bay of Biscay, and she was towed into Plymouth. SANE OR INSANE? The Court of Appeal in Lunacy refused to hold tho "Daily Mail" guilty of contempt in publishing medical reports asserting the sanity of the Marquis of Townshend, and commenting thereon. [A London cablegram of February 26th said:—The nowfipapem are alleging that the Marquis ot Townshend, who in 1905 married Mits Sutherst, is wrongfully detained in his own house as a lunatic, at hie wife's instance. The '•Daily Chronicle*' states that the Marquis is content under his wife' 6 care. Sho says her object is to prevent her hysterical husband falling under the influence of objectionable companions.] SAVED BY A DOG. A spaniel 6aved tho lives of six persons at Easthara, by raising an alarm at night, when an escape of gas, occasioned through the fusing_or' an electric street cable threatened to 6uffocato tho people. PENNY POSTAGE IN FRANCE. PARIS, March 1. Tho Chamber of Deputies has adopted penny postage" throughout France and her colonies. WHOLESALE MURDERS. NEW YORK, March 1. Orchard, who was arrested in connection with the murder of Steunenberg, formerly Governor of Idaho, confesses to twenty-six murders. He declared he reoeived from Moyer, president, of . tho 3110605* Federation, and another official, £760j for the murder of Steunenberg. THE INSURANCE SCANDALS. The New York Equitable Life Insurance Company, reports that, owing to the insurance scandals, there was a decrease of. sixteen million sterling in its new insurances in 1905. KING EDWARD. King Edward will shortly go cruising in the Mediterranean, and will meef the Kaiser. A UNIVERSITY FOR HAMBURG. (Received March 2nd. 10.15 p.m.) BERLIN, March 2. Mr Beit,' the South African millionaire, has" presented Hamburg with £100,000 to establish a University.