HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13101, 28 April 1908, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ENOOIJRAGEMENT OF IMMIGRATION. OTTAWA, April 26. . The Government, by a majority m the Dominion House, rejected a resolution to abolish encouragement to immigration by means of bonuses. GREAT SNOWSTORM IN ENGLAND. The great snowstorm has swept all over England. Several inches of enow have fallen in tho southern counties, causing great damage to fruit trees. has been stopped, and telegraphic communication dislocated. A MILLIONAIRE. (Received April 27th, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, April 27. Besides important real estate, Mr Stewart Clark, of Coats, Scotland, left £2,000,000 in personal estaite.

MR GINNELL RELEASED. Mr Lawrenoe Ginnell, M.P. for North Wostmeath, has been released from geol, owing to the state of his health.

(Mr Ginnell, who is fifty-eight, a barrister, was the originator of the cattle-driving movement, which has assumed smch proportions in Ireland' of late. For some time he was allowed to go about the country openly inciting the people to break the law. Mr Birrell was severoly criticised for the inaction of tihe authorities, but his reply was that though ho was itching to take proceedings against Mr Ginnell, he was determined not to give that gentleman the opportunity of being a martyr. The matter was taken out of Mr Birrell's hands by Mr Ginnell's action in inciting people to drive cattle off lands under the jurisdnctiou of a Court of Law. The Judge bad no oompunction about enforcing the law, and Mr Ginnell found himself arrested for contempt of Court.) THE LATE SIR HENRY CAMPBELLBANNERMAN. The Prince of Wales represents the King at the memorial service in Westminster Abbey. M. Olemencean, the Premier of France, will attend and tihe Kaiser will be represented!. PAN-ANGLICAN CONGRESS. A thousand oversea delegates, Topresenting 200 dioceses, will attend the Pan-Anglican Congress. All the colonies, India and- the United States will be represented. The Congress wiß discuss all kinds of religions, political and economio problems. FATAL LANDSUDE. A landslide destroyed the village of Notre Dame de Solette, 32 miles from Ottawa, killing 25 people. SLEEPING SICKNESS. ; BERLIN, April 27. An influential movement is in progress in Berlin against Professor Koch's proposal to destroy the sleeping sickness by exterminating all big game in the German colonies. THE NASI COMEDY. ROME, April 27. Signor Nasi has been re-elected to Parliament by a great majority. [Another act in the Nasi comedy has begun. Signor Nasi, described as "a humourist with a fine sense of tho theatre,'' -was Minister for Education in 1901, apparently with a great future before him. In 1903 .came rumours of embezzlement of Government funds, a Commission reported against him, and he fled to Sicily, "where he,became, a hero. Bob constituents at Trapani reelected him five times, and each time the Senate refused to accept him. A "Hymn to Nasi' ' became' a second National Anthem in Sicily, streets were named after him, the King's bust was thrown down, and there were riots. Nasi's sense of the melodramatic was his undoing. . In June of last year he suddenly appeared in Rome and delivered a dramatio speech, defending himself. He -was arrested, tried by the Senate, found guilty, and sentenced to eleven months' imprisonment and debarred from holding any public office for four years.. Among other things, he charged over £3000 . for travelling expenses, though he had a free railway pass, and dispensed £12,000 in "pensions" to non-existent persons.]

DESTITUTION IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, April 27.

Terrible destitution exists in the famine districts in the governments ot Kazan and Smolensk. Thousands of children are absolutely naked.