HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXIX, Issue 1691, 10 March 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Mr Carnegie has given L 200,000 to the Princeton University. A blizzard destroyed- great numbers of cattle in Texas and Arizona. Reuier's Agenoy states that Great Britain has restored the captured Venezuelan warships. The Admiralty are acquiring 1000 acres on the north side of the Firth of Forth for the new naval base at a oos.t of LIOO,OOO. The land chiefly belongs to Lords Linlithgow and Rosebery, The War Office Estimates total L 34,500,009, providing for an army of 235,761 men. A Russian engineer, attempting to enter the fortifications at Aden, was arrepted. He was afterwards released, though he waß caught examining the range and finding the position and methods of working the batteries at Aden. Much indignation is expressed over the action of the Aden authorities. Congress has finally adopted the Naval Appropriation Bill for 10 millions sterling. Provision is made for three battleships, ranging from 16,000 to 13,000 tons. Mr Ellis, a New Zealander, has disposed of the rights of an egg-preserving patent for the whole of Europe, with the exception of Russia. Many distinguished German jurists are expressing opinions hostile to Monroeism. Professor Wagner declares it to be an empty pretension, unsupported by real power.