BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12618, 23 March 1903, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyrighi.

POMPOMS FOR THE CAVALRY,

LONDON, March 21. (Received Mnrch 22, at 5.4 p.m.) One pompom is heing issued to each cavalry regiment in the British army.

THE KING'S LEVEE.

One thousand people attended tho King's Court, "held yesterday, including Mr Kceves and many colonials. ,- EVIDENCE OF.A CRIME. With reference to, tho disappearance in 1899 of Miss Cnmille Holland, with whom an army pensioner named Herbert Dougal, who is charged with forging a cheque and embezzling her money, had been living at Moat Farm, Clavering, the Daily Express states that a woman's skull has been found in an outhouse at Moat Farm. Further remains havo been unearthed on an islet in tho moat. OBITUARY. Mr Charles Godfrey Leland, author of "Hans Ureitmann's Ballads" and other books, is dead; aged 79 years. THE SAXONY SCANDAL. . VIENNA, March 20. (Recoived Mnrch 21, at S.QO a.m.) Austrian opinion declares that tho King of Saxony's recent reference to Princess Louise was cruelly unnecessary. ANOTHER COLLISION AT SEA. NEW YORK, March 21. (Received March .22, at.6.4 p.m.) The City of Tnunton, cargo steamer, collided with tho steamer Plymouth, carrying 500 passengers, in Long Island Sound during a fog. Six of the Plymouth's craw were drowned; they were asleep in their bunks. Twelve persons were injured. Both steamers reached New London.