HOME AND ABROAD.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1138, 20 January 1903, Page 4

HOME AND ABROAD.

THE WORLD'S NBWS. Mr TUlmu, the Ueutenant-Oovenioryof South Carolina, shot Mr Jouralei, a local editor, out of revenge for a oritieltm. A tanker's widow named Oppenhelmer Oohn hu left the Kaiser £IOO,OOO. Sixty British steamers have been chartered to take ooal to America. Many ot them will ourjr 10,000 tone each. Owing to President Roosevelt's preaeure, the Naval Committee ot both Houses reeoamend the construction ot three 16.000 ton battleihipi and a cruiser of 18,900 tons. The Thames is frosen over at Harlow, the ios being an inch thick. One hundred thousand Breton fishermen and their dependents have been reduced to the last extremity. Mademoiselle Borloa, belonging to a prominent family in Vichy, shot at and nearly killed the Abbe Jacquetie tor not fulfilling hU promise to relinquish his f«Wiaittieal calling and marry her. An explosion ot an 8-inch gun in the turret ot the Ameriean battleship Massachusetts killed five and Injured tour. The priming accidentally caught, causing a disoharge while the breach was open. The Porte has just paid twelve thousand sterling to Italian sabjeots tor their losses in oonneotion with the Armenian massacres. Austrian, German, and Russian olelms are still In abeyance. A publican at Auburn (N.8.W.) was aroused early on Sunday morning by groans in the bar. He found the door open, and Constable Long lying on the floor shot, the wound being in the back ot the head. He died en route to the hospital. The indications are that Long surprised burglars, and was shot while investigating.