TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 11169, 19 February 1900, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND_FOREIGN. TreßS Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 18. The Duke of Westminster's personalty has b~en sworn at £591,220. The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes visits Australasia shortly in connection with the Wcsleyan missions. The hemp market is dull ; fair Wellington, January and Match .shipments, £3l. Muttou and lamb for all classes remain unchanged. NEW YORK, February IS. Roland Molineux, who was found guilty and sentenced to death for the poisoning of Mrs K. J. Adams in December, 1898, will be electrocuted at New York (? in Sing Sing prison) on March 26. [We doubt this. An appeal hug been Ijlßed, and the execution is almost, ceitain tn l.« stayed. The pronouncing nf the rlo-vfh per.ten eby the Judge is partof the formal proce dings.] INTERPROVmOIAL. [Per United Press Association.] BLENHEIM, February 19. Hilma Silvias, a young girl, obarged with throwing herself off the'Opawa Bridge, was committed for trial on Saturday. AUCKLAND, February 19. Mr Pond's analysis of the choc?e, "part of which was consumed by Mrs Kirby, of the Thamep, shortly before her infant died, also of the fluid from the abir.men of deceased, reveal no trace of alkaloid or mineral poisons. Alice fed on the cheese for forty.eight hours did not suffer. PALMERSTON NORTH, February 19. The police have received intimation tha L . the woman Westerholm, who disappeared Inst. Wednesday, and left a letter staling that she intended to drown herself, is in the Chrißtchurch Rmciks Home. The polioa have been diligently searching the river since Thursday, and. on the following dRV found a cape and a bodee planted under Fitzherbert Bridge, which were identified as having belonged to Mrs We3terholm. No reason is assigned at present for her peculiar conduct. BLENHEIM, February 19. The of Governors of the High School to-day unanimously relcctcd Mr John Innes, M.A., LL.D., as principal of the High School.