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HOME AND FOKEItfN. LONDON, September 13. Tlie latest bulletin states that the Prince of Wales is now able to walk with ease, assisted by a stick and an apparatus giving support to the injured knee. He will visit Scotland. Mr Reeves, Agent-general for New Zealand, read a paper before the British Association dealing with the development of Wakefield's land system in New Zealand. The British Treasury authorities have promised to consider the request of the Victorian Agent-general for the admission of dried Mildura apricots duty free. They point out that it is impossible to exempt them without an amendment of the tariff. Information has been received that Madame Norman Neruda, the celebrated violiniste, has been killed on the Alps by a falling rock. The report and balance sheet of tlie. Northern Investment Company of New Zealand show that the profits amounted to £8248. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum has been declared, and £2248 carried forward. The work of salvage at the wreck of the steamer China, on the Island of Perim, is proceeding satisfactorily. The Governments of Chili and the Argentine Republic have agreed to ask Britain to appoint a court of arbitration to settle a boundary dispute between the two countries. Sir William Martin Conway, the wellknown traveller and scientist, ascended Mount Yelitana in Bolivia to a height of 22,500 ft. The North German Lloyd's steamer Oldenburg, homeward bound from Australia, has arrived at Aden with a portion of her cargo on fire. The outbreak was extinguished, but 120 bales of wool were damaged. Under the auspices of the British Association Professor A. Berson and Mr Percival Spencer, two well-known aeronauts, and Mr H. M. Stanley ascended in a balloon from the Crystal Palace grounds to a height of 27,500 ft. At 25,000 ft they were compelled to breathe compressed oxygen from tubes. [In 1862 Mr Glaisher attained an altitude of about seven miles at Wolverhampton. At five and three-quarter mile? he became insensible, and his companion, Mr Coxwell, lost the us© of his hands, but was able to open the escape valve with his teeth.] Divers are repairing the bottom of the steamer China prior to her entrance to Perim. September 16. Mr Woddel sails by the Teutonic, via Canada. He visits New Zealand and Australia to arrange for improvements in the discharge of frozen meat and a better system of distribution. The P. and O. steamer China, ■which went ashore on the Island of Perim, has been successfully floated. September 17. Mr George Wyndham, member for Dover, succeeds Mr Curzon as Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs. [Mr George Wyndham, eon of the Hon. Percy Wyndham, is 35 years of age. He waa echicated at Eton. Entering the army, he was lieutenant in the Ist Battalion Cold stream Guards, and served in. the Soudan in 1885. He was elected to represent Dover in 1889, and at the last : election was returned unopposed. Mr Wyndham ia si director of the London, Chatham/and Dover railway. He was private secretaiy to Mr SaUour from 1887 to 3891.] September 18. In th# sculling contests for the Sportsman's Cup, Berry beat Wray by a short half-length. Towns beat Bubear. The winner tmished virtually alone, Bubear stopping exhausted. Captain Coventry, one of the officers who ■were cashiered over Dr Jameson's raid, and recently restored to the Army List, proceeds to Benin (West Africa) to organise the native forces in a similar manner to that in existence at Lokaja, in the Gandu Sultanate. The Agent-general of South Australia has written to the "Investors' Review" correcting the statement that his Government incurred any responsibility in connection with the settlers in the Renmark irrigation colony. Mr Pike Pease (Unionist), son of Mr Arthur Pease, the late member, defeated Mr Owen Phillips (Liberal) for the Darlington electorate by a majority of 688. Obituary : William Ulick O'Connor Cuffe, fourth Earl of Desart, aged 54 years. The deceased earl has published several novels, and was a reguj lar contributor to several London papers. September 19. The steamer China is now at anchor at Perim. The death is announced of Major George | Dewinton ; setat 74. Deceased went to j Tasmania in 1843 in command of a convict guard, and subsequently was the first white man to land in Northern Queensland, where Port Gladstone now stands. A shipment of rabbits in one of the holds of the Bteamer Duke of Portland, from Lyttelton, has been found to be BM>\il<iz»

BERLIN, September 15. The Empei'or, in the course of a speech at Prenzlow, said that they lived in serious ' times, and that revolutionary designs must be forcibly combated. i VIENNA, September 15. j The anti-Italian trouble continues at Trieste, where 300 Slavonians forced an ! entrance into the Italian factories and de- i stroyed the machinery. Eleven persons have ' been arrested. The police and garrison at ! Trieste have been reinforced. ( ] ROME, September 13. i I The Revolutionary Committee of Milan J j have issued a manifesto. An anarchist j who was distributing it in the streets, and ; crying "Death to the King !" was arrested, j The mob made a desperate attempt at his ' rescue. The anarchist gives, his name as Siles. September 15. Mount Vesuvius is dangerously active, and the eruptions have not been equalled 1 since 1872. j SEOUL, September 14. 1 The Emperor of Corea and the Crown Prince became suddenly ill after dinner. It i is believed that they were poisoned. Eleven ' courtiers have been arrested. The Emperor , is recovering. Sept-ember 15. The Crown Prince of Corea is still suffering from the effects of poison. The attempt is attributed to political motives. 1 September 17. A high official of Corea has confessed that : he ordered a cook to poison the Emperor at J the instigation of a former interpreter at- i tached to the Russian Legation, who was i once a Court favourite, but has since been i disgraced. SHANGHAI, September 16. The American and French mission stations at Hochu and Chung-king, in the Province ' of Puchwang, have been attacked, and the latter burned. WASHINGTON, September 13. s President M'Kinley approves of the J ! Czar's disarmament proposal, and is willing ! j that America should be represented at the ' suggested conference. | The American Government refuse to ac- { cept Turkey's repudiation of any responsi- j bility for the losses by Americans arising s out of the Armenian massacres. j September 15. \ Senator Hoar has again declined the ap- ; pointment of American Ambassador to Eng- j land. Mr John D. Long, Secretary of the ' Navy, has now been asked to accept the position.