HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13005, 6 January 1908, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. A RESIGNATION. LONDON, January 3. Mr W. P. McArthur, M.P., has resigned his seat. GERMANY'S NAVY. BERLIN, January 3. Germany's first Dreadnought, the Tayern, will be launched at Wilhelmshaven at the end of February. A NARROW ESCAPE. NEW YORK, January 3. A 60 h.p. Napier motor car, on the Brooklands course, had attained a speed of eighty-fivo miles an hour, when a tyre burst, and tho car jumped on to the embankment. Fron, the driver, was severely shaken. THE EARTHQUAKE IN JAMAICA. LONDON, January I. The earthquakp in Jamaica destroyed the Episcopal Church at Ewarton. THE PRUSSIAN TRAGEDY. Tho widow of Major Yon Schoenbeok, the officer who was shot in his quarters by Captain Vergoebene, has been arrested [Reuter reported that tho evidence pointed to the Major's wifo being tho instigator. The Captain confessed tliat he committed the crime out of frenzied love for her.] A COMPLAINT AND AN ASSURANCE. Handlers of Australian canned meats alleged that the Board of Trade was accepting inferior American meats for the mercantile marine. Mr Coghlan, New South Wales Agent-General, interviewed the Board, and received an assurance that the standard recently put into force would not be lowered. THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBITION. The Franco - British Exhibition authorities havo appointed Mr Marks, an expert now visiting Australia, to represent them, and give winegrowers information relative to the use of Australian wines at the exhibition. THE NEW JERSEY TRAGEDY. NEW YORK, January 4. The woman found in the New Jersey swamp was Lena Whdtmore, wife of a raEwayman at Brooklyn. She disappeared on Christmas afternoon with hoi husband. The latter has been detained by not charged. [A cable published on Friday stated that Albert Thompson, an English mechanic, had, been arrested an suspicion! of murdering, on Christmas night, a beautiful young woman, and leaving the body in a swamp at Harrison, New Jersey.]