HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12444, 6 March 1906, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS. LONDON, March 4. Mr Prtckett has been gaaetted American Cbnsul-Geneial for Auckland, ond Mr Thomas Rawdon Wardj member of the Executive Council of Fiji.' HUNGARIAN'S LONG FAST. Giuseppe Sacco has completed a forty-: five days' fast in London. He lost four stone -weight, finally becoming "very weak. Ho contemplates a further forty days' fast i_ April. v , [Guscppe Sacco, who is a Hungarian, has achieved fame on the Continent as a fasting man. During this last fast M. Sacco was to remain in a specially constructed glass room, from which he was not to be allowed to move. An unlimited quantity'ofi mineral waterwere to bo his only diet. ■ Over 2000 membera of tbe London medical faculty were invited to witness M. Sacco's experiment.] ' ■ ' ' • THE JEW IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, March 4. During the past year a hu_dred and fifty thousand Jewish immigrants have landed in . America, -ixtj* thousand settling in New York. THE HUNGARIAN CRISIS. (Received March sth, p.m.) BUDA PESTH, March 5. Count Banffy has dropped the coalition standpoint, and declares that tho crisis can only bo solved on a dualist basis. The military and constitutional demands must be shelved to enable the nation to regain its constitution. He advises the use of wise moderation: . KING EDWIARD IN PARIS. (Received March sth, 9.50 p.m.) PARIS, March 5. King Edward and President Fallieres exchanged visits, and King Edward entertained President Fallieres and M. Rouvier to dinner.

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