HOME AND ABROAD.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1145, 5 February 1903, Page 6

HOME AND ABROAD.

THE WORLD'S NEWS. Tbe Boer delegates, who sailed from Australia for Mew Zealand on Saturday, expect to remain about a month and return to Australia. Sir George Gabriel Stokes, president of Pembroke College, Cambridge, is dead; aged Si. The fund promoted by tbe London ' Globe' to aid the South African loyalists is closed. The total subscriptions amounted to £13,877. Mr Reddy, member of Parliament for the Birr division of King's County, has been released, a month before tbe expiration of his sentenoe for convening an unlawful assembly. Mr Alexander Grimond, head of the Dundee jute firm, has bequeathed £120,000 to charities and religious institutions. General Prinsloo, who, with his commando surrendered on July 30,1900, at Brandwater Basin, Orange Kiver Colony, is dead. Many leading Boers are Hocking to Bloemfontein to be in readiness to welcome Mr Chamberlain. The King is suffering from mild influenza, but is progressing satisfactorily and passed a good night. His physicians deolare that there is no oause for anxiety. The Bev. J. Dowie, of iSion City, Chicago, holds a mission in New York in October. If the visit proves successful he will build another Zion City. Cardinal Gibbons delivered a remarkable sermon in New. York. He stated that the divorce mills were slowly, but surely, grinding the domestic altars of tho nation. Divorce, he declared, was a social scourge more blighting and destructive than Mormonism.