BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

Otago Witness, Issue 1905, 25 May 1888, Page 22

BRITISH AND FOREIGN,

(SpeciA-L to Press Association.) London, May 22. The death is announced of Admiral O'Reilly. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, wiring from Berlin, says tha': the betrothal of Prince Alexander of Battenberg and Princess Victoria will be announced on Thursday. The health of Emperor Frederick 111 is improving, and he is able to take daily drives. His voice is also much stronger. The following is the result of Prix de Diane (French Oaks) : —Solange, 1; Widgeon, 2; Joe, 3. (Per Press Association.) London, May 21. The Prince of Wales has left for Berlin, to be present at the marriage of Prince Henry of Prussia to Princess Irene of Hesse. A large lunatic asylum in Fifeshire was struck by lightning and took fire. The building was destroyed, but the inmates were all rescued. It is rumonred that the Clan-na-Gael organisation has awakened into activity, and that plots against Mr Balfour and other prominent members favourable to the policy of coercion are projected. Walsh, a prominent Fenian, who suddenly disappeared from America some time ago, has turned up in Paris, where the detectives are closely watching him. May 22. Mr Thomas Condon, M.P. for Tipperary, has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment on a charge of having incited the Irish tennants to conspiracy. It is estimated that quite 250,000 acres of land were flooded in consequence of the embankment of the Mississippi river bursting, and the damage is put down at 4,000,000d01. Berlin, May 22. : The Emperor and Empress drove through the city to-day and received a tremendous ovation. After the marriage of Prince Henry the Court will remove to Potsdam.