HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 8730, 23 January 1892, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(By Euotbio Telegraph,—GopraaHT.] [Pbb Press Association.]

LONDON, January 22.

(Received January 23,1892, at 10.20 a.m.)

The Arawa will be quarantined at Spithead for one day. The orew have recovered. None of the passengers were affeoted. One fireman and a steward died, . 'XM'£ § Professor Adams, astronomer, in his 73rd year. Consignees fear that many of the colonial wool ships will be detained by head winds, and miss the market. 1 The 'Standard' urges the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the causes of influenza,

At Cape Town the disease is of a virulent type, and in Paris deaths have increased by 800 weekly, Influenza is also increasing with severity in England.

VIENNA, January 22. Archduke Ferdiuand is suffering from influenza,

WASHING fON, January 22,

Mr Springer has introduced his Bill providing for a repeal of wool duties from January next,

ST. PETERSBURG, January 22,

A number of railway officials have been arrested in Moscow on a charge of assisting Nihilists to lay a mine under the railway line over which the Czar passed on his recent journey.

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ST, PETERSBURG, January 22.

(Reoelved January 23,1892, at 10.30 a.m.)

The directors of the Warsaw railway and the Government are meeting secretly to discuss the propriety of mobilising in order to expedite the transfer of Poles eastward, The medical students at Kieff have been ordered to enlist. It is stated that a northern custom* league embracing Russia is being formed. PARIS, January 22.

The French Government have accepted the Bulgarian Note with regard to the expulsion of the French journalist from Sofia, and amicable relations between the two countries are being resumed. ROME, January 22. The Pope is suffering from an affection of the throat.

WASHINGTON, Janvary 22. The Chilian Government have applied for space at the Chicago Exhibition, LONDON, January 22. Mr Smithers, director of the English Bank of River Plate, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Sir Somers Vine is suffering from a severe attack of influenzi, and his condition is regarded as critical.