HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13374, 16 March 1909, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Pre«* Association— Br Electrio Telegraph—Ccpy right. TVIRELKSS TEI.KGRAPHY. LONDON, March !4. Wireless telegraphy stations will be established on tl*e Canary Islands. KG V P TIA X FIX ANCK. Tlie revenue of for ~ho year yield t<l a surplus of £1,000,000. FOOTBALL. W»k\s beat Ireland by three goa-Is and one try to mo g<x»l. EDUCATION IX CHINA. At the instance of iSir Robert Hart, tih<> Lord Mayor is opening a national appeal for £109,000 for medical training and other educational work in China. THE CADET MOVEMENT. The Prinro of Wales inspected l the cadet* of tho Hoyai Rifle Corps at Stirling. In tho course of a speech, he citod Australasia's well-equipped and soldierly cadets as testifying to tho same public spirit and self-snerifice that had been sustaining tho movement in London for the pa.yt nineteen years. GERMAN POLITICS. It is reported that the Centre Party are preparing a bold bid for power by giving Prince, Jsuk>w a safe majority for a fresh and entensive 15:11 for tho construction, of battleships. INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT. ST. PETERSBURG. March 14. In the International Cltess Tournament at St. Petersburg, Rubinstein and Lasker tied., and divided the. first, and second prizes. Duras was third and Bpielman fourth. INDIAN SEDITION. CALCUTTA, March 34. A bomb was discovered in tho office of the newspaper "Englishman" in Calcutta. THE BALKANS. (Received Maach. 10th, 11.15 p.m.) VIENNA, March 15. Austria's notion in equipping the second line of reserves with rifles and cartridges has created a bad. impreEsion in Vienna. THE FRENCH NAVY. PAR IS, March 15. M. Caillaux, French Minister of Finance, and M. Picard, Minister of Marine, are adjusting their differences on a basis of six or seven annu.il expenditures on the Navy aggregating twelve millions sterling, instead of <i total of nine millions. FIGHTING IN .MOROCCO. MOROCCO, March 15. The Yussi tribe, on behnlf of the Pretender, routed a Government force. Captain Reglay, of the French Army, vainly attempted to raTly the fugitives. The .<Lefeat is causing consternation to tho Meghzen. Buhania.ra is advancing to the succour of the Royal troops.