HOME AND ABROAD.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1146, 12 February 1903, Page 6

HOME AND ABROAD.

THE WORLD'S NEWS. The death of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, a member of the first Victorian Ministry, is reported. The King and Queen had an enthusiastic reception in London ; the former is well. Seventy hours' rain caused the Clyde to burst its bank at Butherglen, flooding thousands of acres occupied by factories. Thousands of workmen were thrown Idle. Miss Ada Ellen Bayly (Edna Lyall) the novelift is dead. The keel of the battleship New Zealand has been laid at Portsmouth. Marconi expects to oommunioate with India and Australia by wireless telegraphy. Victoria imported last week 300 bags of wheat from New Zealand and 2000 from Adelaide. Henry Jones, wanted In connection with the shooting of Constable Long, has been arrested at Ultimo (N.S.W.) Leading Boers admit that Mr Chamberlain's attitude makes it impossible to bully the Government, and assert that the war might have been avoided had previous Imperial Governments shown equal determination to keep South Africa. Fifteen thousand conscripts in Finland declined to appear for service, and were ordered to remain in the country for five years. Ethergrams supplied news to toe liner Minneapolis in mid-ocean. The Legislative Council in Victoria struck out the women's suffrage clause in the Constitution Reform Bill by 28 to 12. Thei' Daily News • and ' Star' attack Mr Chamberlain for demanding active loyalty before granting justice. They protest against differentiating between Boers, and sneer at the National Scouts. Louis Botha is selling his property at Vryheid, whioh has been incorporated in Natal and has bought farms at Standorton, In the Transvaal. Signor Pasini, a wealthy merchant in Turin, made love to two women in separate towns by whom he had children. Th» woman chanced to meet at Pasini's house in Genoa when a violent scene entuod. The woman' aided by Pasini, killed the children, then all three committed suicide. Admiral Cochran, in a letter to the ' Times ' says that subalterns are allowed to order young officers to bo flogged for minor offences, ibis brs been brought under Lord Robert*' notice, who has placed Colon*! Unlock on half pay as a consequence. Turkey is mobolising two army corps, and there is a probability of % rising in Bulgaria