HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13131, 2 June 1908, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Teieyranh—Copyright. AMY CASTLES. LONDON, Ma- 31. Miss Amy C.-:6ties :s arranging to r_>it Australia next year. RELIEF CREWS. _'he crui.ser Gibraltar takes a new crow to Australia for tho cruiser Challenger, aud hair a crew for tho Prometheus. CRICKET. In the cricket match, Marylebone C.C. v. Cambridge, Tarrant, playing for the M.C.C.took seven wickets for 4C, including tbe hat trick. YACHTING. Sir Tho-mos Lipton's yacht, Shamrock TV. easily won her maiden race from Southend to Harwich, beating th© White Heather and the Myria. GOLF. E. Lassrm beat H. Taylor in the final of the Amateur Golf Championship by 7 up and G to playTHE SOCDAN .uDRDERERS. 'Received Juno xst. 9.55 p.m.) CAIRO, June 1. Th© death sentences on twelve of Ahdolkedar's accomplices in the murder of Colonel Aioncrieff, in the Sou_an have been commuted to imprisonment for life, with confiscation of property. MASSACRES BY KURDS. TEHERAN, June 1. Kurds are massacring and pillaging "v the Uramiah district of Persia. THE GERMAN PASTORS. LONDON, May 1. King Edward received at Buokingham Palace the German pastors visiting England, the A-nbtassadbr introOucing them. THE KTVAL SULTANS. LONDON, June 1. Th© Tangier correspondent of "Th© Times" says the cause of Abdul Aziz has suffered a severe loss from the capture of Demnat by Muiai Hand. During the fight, the (Governor was killed. HEIR TO THE DUKE OF NORFOLK. The Duchess of Norfolk has given birth to a son. [The birth of an Norfolk is a matter oi considerahl© interest, owing to tho high position of the Dnke and th© proaninent«-.part his house has played m English history. The title dates back to Planta-genet times, and th© history of the line has been very chequered. Th© present duko is "Premier Peer of the United Kingdom, Hereditary Earl Marshal of Ergiand, and head of the Roman Catholic laity in Great Britain. Ho is six-by-one, and has been twice married. His son by his first wife was a hopeless invalid, and died at the ago of twentythree. The Duke married in 1904 th© daughter of Lord Harries.]