HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13100, 27 April 1908, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. WOMAN'S WORK. V ! LONDON, April 24. Exhibitors at tho Women's Work Exhibition recently hold at Melbourne, are much dissatisfied with the damaged condition of their returned goods, which is attributed to defective packing. No account sales have been rendered, and many claims have been made for compensation.' SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL. The Shakespeare festival was opened with a brilliant ceremony at Stratford-on-Avoh. A new fqaturo was the grouping of national and colonial ___g-. around a Union Jack, whidh measured six yards, and was a gift from King Edward. After that the school children sang the National Anthem. PECULIAR ACTION. The Hagen, bound from Fremantle, whilst lying off the Goodwin Sands, shipped a cargo of explosives from" a German tug. This action is exciting comment. HEAVY SNOWFAU- IN THE UNITED KINGDOiM. Heavy snow is falling throughout the United Kingdom. Three feet has fallen in Scotland, and some inches in London. Work has. been stopped at the Northern shipyards, and trains are much delayed. A SHIPPING CASE. PEKIN, April 24: The Supreme Court sitting in Admiralty, has ordered the steamer Maori King to be forfeited to the King for false registration, and for flying the British flag. The defar.dants, Gainsborough and Company, a Russian firm, have appealed against the decision. LIFE IN GUAT__MAI_A. NEW YORK, April 24. President Cabrera declares that he has proof that, tho majority of the prisoners were implicated in the plot against his life. He has issued a proclamation declaring that he is confident that the people are loyal and will preserve order with a strong hand.