HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 10900, 7 April 1899, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Pmh AsKwtitto^liy^ for £*ndt^^witelleM telegraphy land. ■ ” IncompUahoawith ; t(horeaionßti?ances ; of sportsman, ths .French Government have prohibited the transit of live Egyptian quailacrpgsFrench soil'to England. * CAIRO, April 6. The Egyptian Government have under consideration the eKtenaien of the Soudan railway through Khakoiim vis Kassala to Suakim. April 6. Two members af the Cerliachea expedition died on the voyage. < Presiding at a mtetfng of the Article CluT£ Sir A Toiler C4geut-Qeneral for Queensland) contended that the sugar "bounties were fast closing the British markets to the colonies. British consumers paid twenty millions sterling to the bounty-giving Powers at the expense of the British colonies. The ultimate result would he the ruin of the sugar the colonies. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 51,238,000 bushels. The death of Miss Hose Leclerq is announced. . . \ , [Miss Leolerqmadeher first appearance before the Queen at Windsor in "Ihe Tempest.’ In 1363 she was a member of the Drury Lano, company, and afterwards toured the provinces, playing many leading parts in Shakespearian productions/ She was the Oaten to Phelps’s Rny Bias at the; Adelphl revival of Fletcher’s drama in 1872, arid also played Deademona -to his Othello. In a revival of ’The Merry Wives ofWindsor/at the same theatre, at the end of 1874, she appeared as Mrs Ford. After several successful tours of th i provinces she returned to the metropolis and noted the part of njivia in the Lyceum revival of ‘Twelfth -Night,’ in 1884. She has been associated with some of the best known dramatic successes of tho past twenty years, having created parts In ‘Sophia, ’ ‘Caplain Swift.’ ‘ Jhtf Danotng Girl,’ ‘L> Tosoa, 1 ‘Peril,’ ‘The AousObs,’ ‘A Social Butterfly,' and ‘ A Woman of No Importance.’J