BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12649, 29 April 1903, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

<?iess Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ' ANOTHER CARNEGIE GIFT. LONDON, April 27. (Received April 28, at 8.51 a.m.) Mr Carriegio has given £10,000 to the Eastbourne Free Public Library. ; A WEST AFRICAN RAILWAY LOAN. A loan of £2,000,000 for the construction of ai'ailway to Benguella, in Portuguese "West Africa, has been underwritten., • The capital is entirely British. Portuguese:' capitalists aro applying for shares. ■ • , MR 'BANBURY'S ILLNESS. April 28. '(Received April 28, at 10.38 p.m.) The condition of Mr Hanbury,. president of the. Board of Agriculture, is critical; THE. ORIZABA QUARANTINED. A native sailor aboard the Orizaba, from Australia, was landed at Suez suffering,from the plague. When the Orizaba, arrived at Plymouth she was treated as an infected ship. , A SORDID CASE. (Received April 29, at 0.5 a.m.) Brown,' tho coachman's son who passed himself off as a nobleman, has been committed for trial in connection with his marriage with ex-Countess Russell. THE EARL OF YARMOUTH'S .<'• 'MARRIAGE. The Earl of Yarmouth married Miss Alice Shaw, daughter of the American railway, millionaire. Tho bride has a dowry of £20,000 a year. ' the Pretoria corporation. 1 ' CAPETOWN, April 28. (Received April 28, at 10.45 p.m.) The members of the Pretoria Corporation are resigning owing to the Gorernment's policy in regard to the town :onimoriages.