HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13336, 30 January 1909, Page 9

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Prnss Association—B7 Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. CONTRADICTED. LONDON, January 28. The announcement made in Madrid that King Edward and Queen Alexandra aro to visit Spain is officially contradicted in London. CHARITY BEQUESTS. Mr Josiah Vavaseur, one of the directors of Armstrong, AVhitworth and Co., out of an estate of £311,742, bequeathed to charities £150,000. , A DENIAL. The Colonial Office denies Sir Gerald Strickland's appointment as Governor of New South AVales. " AGAPEMONITE SCANDALS. Great surprise is expressed that Bishop Konnion has not had SmythPigott unfrocked. [The Bishop of Bath and Wells proceeded' against the Rev. Jame__Smy__Piggott on charges of immorality, andl the Chancellor found tho charges prov, cd. Under the Church Discipline Aob, tho Consistory Court would report to the Bishop, who couler then deprive the dogradied clergyman of Holy Orders and prevent him from ministering anywhere in the Church of England. "This would be dono by the Bishop sitting as a court and! merely pronouncing tlie order of deprivation.] MURDERS FOR GAIN. PARIS, January 28. Marie Gilbert, a farmer's wife, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life at tho Cher Assizes, France, for poisoning her mother-in-law and cousin, and attempting to murder four others, the motive being to inherit their savings and property. BOMBS. ST. PETERSBURG, January 28. Six large bombs have been found in the Technical Institute at Tomsk. THE MYSTERIOUS EARTHQUAKE. SAN FRANCISCO, January 28. v Extraordinary waves on the coast of California ond British Columbia support the theory that the seat of the mysterious earthquake was in the Pacific Ocean. THE INFANT EMPEROR. PE-CIN, January 28. The infant Emperor of China is reported to be' suffering from confluent smallpox, but it is officially stated that his health causes no anxiety. ■ LORD RAYLEIGH. (Received January 29th, 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, January 29. The "Daily Telegraph* states that Lord- Rayleigh, the eminent scientist, is seriously ill at Pretoria. THE PATENTS ACT. A volunteer organisation is being formed l in London to secure revocation of foreign patents, unless they are adequately worked in Great Britain, as provided by the Act ~~ BOMBS IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, January 29. Throe Hindu students at Kolhapur were sentenced to four years' imprisonment for stealing explosives to make bombs. THE REPUBLIC-FLORIDA COLLISION. NEW YORK, January 29. The owners of the Republic claim £300,000 damages from the owners of the' Florida.