HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13094, 20 April 1908, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Ar-sociaiton—By Electric 1-iegTaph—Copyright.

SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNER-MAN.

LONDON, April 17.

Sir H.nry Campbell-Baunerman passed a restless night, and his condition is weaker. King Edward drove to Downing street to enquire for him. FROM CLOWN TO SEMI-MILLION-AIRE. The Central News Agency's New York correspondent reports that Charles Meredith, a clown at Cole Bros.' Circus, who is performing in America, and his brother, a clown performing in Australia, have been proved to be the heirs of the Glasgow estate of Richmond Blame, their unck. The estate is valued at half a million sterling. ' JUPITER'S EIGHTH .MOON. An eighth moon of Jupiter has been discovered by Greenwich Observatory.

WOOLGROWERS' TRUST. NEW YORK, April 17. Four thousand five hundred wool growers in Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and Arizona are forming a trust, with B capital of 20 millions sterling, in the hope of being able to dictate terms to the Eastern mills. TERRIBLE SNOW SLLOET A terrible snowslide which occurred J n a canyon of the Rocky Mountains pi» Monday, swept a portion of the railway track and a boarding car used by employees into a canyon. Thirty Japanese were killed.

ERUGER- GOLD

PRETORIA, April 17.

Referring .to a cable dated March 6th, concerning the late Mr Kruger's gold, General Botha now expJafns that ilr Kruger handed the money to the late .Government when he quitted the Transvaal. »It was expended by various com_landers, and Gen-eral Botha offered Lord Milner a financial statement, not the money itself. [The cable in question, which was sent from Johannesburg, was to tho effect that General Botha stated that the late Mr Kruger had left 14,000 sovereigns And 48,000 bluebacks, which had been offered to Lord Milner, who refused to accept the money, which was still in the bank.]

03MAN DIGNA. CAIRO, April 17. . Osmari Dig—a, the notoriouo lieutenant of the late Khalifa of the Soudan, who is imprisoned at Damuka, has gone mad. He declare- that the English are God's 'scourge, and must be obeyed by Moslems.

o—_an Digna was one of the greatest of the Mahdi's'Emirs, and the one >best known to the British public. The % most important work he did for the Mahdi w_C to block ,' the SuakiniBerber rente, the shortest and best road into the -Soudan. By orde*** of the Mahdi he roused the tribes in- the neighbourhood of Suakim to rebellion in 1883, and all the efforts of the Government to re-open the route were unsuccessful . His force defeated Baker Pasha at El Teb, when the Egyptians lost over 2000 men and all their arms and ammunition. Though the British twice defeated him, it was deemed impossible, oik account of the Dervish hordes under his command, to take this route for the relief of Gordon and K,be.toum. He continued to threaten Suakim for some time, and to devastate the country, but was completely defeated in. 1891, and fed to Omdurman. ( Tho Khalifa made him...'Emir of Emirs" when.Kitchener threatenea the Soudan, and his lieutenant summoned 25,000 Dervishea to his standard. He had to fly from the conquering British and Egyptian 'army, and was captured a few years later near Tokar. Osman , Digna, who was notorious for -—.is cruelties, copied the example of tbe Mahdi closely. He wore nothing on his feet, and rode only on exceptionally long marches, his argument being that as the Mahdi deigned to. walk the earth, he -thereby made it holy. : DINIZULTTS TRIAL. DURBAN, April 17. The Supreme Court of Natal refused the application of Dinkulu for ihe removal of Mr Bennett, the magistrate, who is conducting the preliminary examination, on the ground* of illegalities. The Court denied the right of the public or the Press to be present at the examination, ' THE UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANT. LONDON, April 18. Doctor Bruce Smith, Inspector of Prison* in Ontario, attributes the fact

that there are more "prisoners in the

• State gaols now than there have been • ; for the last 20 years, to Ontario becoming the dumping ground of undesirable immigrants, some of. whom have spent most cf their lives in English prisons, i—d were;released on undertaking to '■■. ttftigrate to Canada. v .JThe Canadian Immigration Depart- . ment recently came to the decision to insist that all people coming to Canada by means of assisted passages should obtain a certificate from the Canadian

:'. authorities in England. "There has _ been a great deal of distress this winter among new arrivals in Canadian cities, particularly in Toronto,'-' wrote .the "Daily Mail's" Ottawa correspondent /recently, "and investigation has shown .that many of these people, who are unfitted to make a living in Canada under present industrial conditions, were sent ou> by benevolent and charitable so-

cieties. Regulations are already in force requiring that all settlers must nave at- least £5 on their person when they arrive in this country. It has been "felt, however, that even stricter measures are desirable-to prevent the flooding of Canadian centres with the undesirable class of immigrants. It is •probable that the result of these meacures will be to reduce considerably immigration into Canada from the United Kingdom during 1908, as the number sent out by charitable and benevolent societies last year totalled 13,000."] THE ENGLISH RAILWAY DISPUTE. The Board of Trade is intervening in the North-Eastern Railway dispute. INDIAN TELEGRAPH TROUBLE.

. Renter reports that a five weeks' trial of Mr Newland's system in India has been arranged. THE PARIS LOCK-OUT. PARIS, April. 18. The lock-out in Paris has terminated. The hours question is unsettled. THE JAPANESE NAVY. Japan is re-arming the captured Russian warships with heavier guns.

CABLE NEWS.