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Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 16

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t> — ~ HOME AM> FOREIGN. -LONDON, April 3. Mr Richard Chamberlain, a brother of the Colonial Secretary, is dead. ' [Mr Chamberlain wa3 Liberal Unionist member for the West Islington Division of London for many years, but in 1892 was defeated by Mr Lough, Gladstonian.] April 4. Keiller'* jam factory at Silvertown has been destroyed by fire. H.M.S. Royalist hqs been recalled from the Australian station, and her crew will be paid off. Messrs Huddart, Parker, and Co.'s new steamer Zealandia has been launched at Dundee. The Queen's Birthday associated with the peace jubilee will be held in Washington on May 24. The barque 'Broughton, bound from Australia, to Coquimbo, has arrived at Fleetwood. She experienced a cyckme for 27 days, during which terrible weather prevailed. The captain and other members of the crew were ill, and the vessel drifted for weeks. The captain died afterwards from Ills injuries'. Rudyard Kipling has gratefully acknowledged the wonderful world-wide sympathy end affection tendered liim in his recent ill- •■' ness and bereavement. April 5. Ritualism was the chief subject discussed , at the Church of England vestry meetings during Easter. The Elders of Trinity House are investigating Signor Marconi s wireless telegraph experiments with a view to the application of the system to lighthouses. The death is announced of Mr Thos. Ellis, chief Liberal whip ; aged 40. 5 Sir Henry Irving has received a letter from Prince, the man who stabbed Terriss. Prince managed to send the letter without its being known to the asylum officials. In it he threatens to kill Sir H. Irving when he is released. April 6. Mr Cox (C) was elected by a majority of 1105 to replace Mr Ambrose (C), who resigned the Harrow seat. The Cyclists' Touring -Club prosecuted the landlady of a hotel at Oakham for refusing to serve Viscountess Harberton with lunch except in a bar parlour where a number of smokers were congregated because the Viscountess wore a rational costume. The landlady was acquitted. Presiding at a meeting of the Article Club, Sir H. Tozer (Agent-general for Queensland) contended that the sugar bounties were fast closing the British markets to the sugar-producing colonies. British . consumers paid 20 million sterling to the bounty-giving Powers at the expense of . the British colonies. The ultimate result ■would be the ruin of the sugar industry m the colonies. » The death of Miss Rose Leclerq, the well'ltnown actress, is announced. Lord George Hamilton has a letter in the press dealing with the memorials recently presented by the English Clmrch Union to the Queen and Parliament, affirming that the Church should remain independent of Parliament and the courts in the matters of doctrine and ceremonial; and dealing with the utterances of Lord Halifax, president of the union, on the subject. He denounces Lord Halifax's defiance of constituted authority, and says that all High Churchmen ought to repudiate rebellion against constituted authority. April 7. Mr Haddon Chambers's new play "Tyranny of Tears" was produced at the Criterion Theatre last night, and proved a great success. The critics praise its of plot and ingenuity of construction. April 8. The Dublin Corporation have petitioned for the release of the remaining Phoenix Park murderers. The Viceroy has decided to release the men at periods consistent ■ with mercy and justice.

The holders of half a million of New Zealand Midland railway debentures have petitioned the Stock Exchange to refuse a quotation for future New Zealand loans, on the ground that the Government accorded them unfair treatment.

April 9. The Australian racehorse Aurum injured a suspensory ligament. All his racing engagements have been cancelled, and he goes to the stud.

Earl lieauchamp, Governor-elect of New South Wales, was banqueted by the Worcester Borough Council. In replying to the toast of his health the Governor-elect said that federation would bind the colonies closer to the motherland. Englishmen had a profound affection for the polonies, and would ungrudgingly help them whenever necessary.

Newspapers urge the cancellation of the commissions of the peace held by Messrs Brockmann and Pledge, who are alleged to be concerned in the illtreatment of natives in Westralia.

The County Council elections in Ireland leave the Unionists unrepresented in Muneter and Connaught, very little representation in Leinster, and largely reduced representation in Ulster.

The Barbadoes sugar planters have rejected Sir T. J. Lipton's offer to purchase canes at Is per ton for crushing at a central factory. They • have suggested legislation on "the lines of the Queensland Sugar Works Act.

The engagement of the Earl of Shaftesbury and Lady Constance Sidell Grosvenor, eldest daughter of the late Earl Grosvenor, is announced. .

. A chemical analyst has assured Mr .Valentine, the expert on colonial products, that the use of formaline for the preservation of fruit pulp is unnecessary, and, moreover, injurious. Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne;, has

sailed for America on his return to Australia.

April 10. The Agents-general of the various colonies have been invited to co-operate in holding a representative banquet on the Queen's Birthday.

The gold mining companies in Rhodesia have undertaken to provide funds for the construction of a railway from Bulawayo to Gwelo, thence to Mafungsbusi in Matabeleland.

PARIS, April 5.

Two men attempted to scale the walls of the magazine at Avignon, in the South of France. The sentry fired upon and chased them.

April 6. The Eiffel Tower will shortly be utilised for the purpose of conducting wireless telegraphic experiments with South Foreland.

In compliance with the remonstrances of sportsmen, the French Government have prohibited the transit of live Egyptian quail across French soil to Englaud.

April 10. A dastardly letter has been sent to President Loubet threatening to blow \ip his mother's residence.

M. Dupuy, the Premier, was entertained at a banquet at Puy. He said the Anglo-French Convention secured to France a promising Empire in Africa. BERLIN, April 4. Owing to the further massing of Russian troops on the German frontier the Reichstag will be asked next session to further increase the German infantry by 7000 men. This increase the Reichstag refused when the Army Increase Bill was being discussed.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 4. A correspondent of the Moscow Gazette was compelled to take refuge in the barracks at Helsingfors, as he was boycotted •at shops and hotels, and expelled from lodgings for insulting Finland ladies. The St. Petersburg University Technological Institution and Academy of Mining has been closed, owing to students resenting the refusal of the authorities to grant an amnesty to disorderly students at Moscow and Kieff.

April 7. The Czar's thanks to the nations for their expressed sympathy with the proposed Peace Conference have been sent through the various Embassies, but not to Berlin, thus showing that Germany did not sympathise with it.

April 9. The Helsingfors newspapers have been suspended for 30 to 60 days.

A Newfoundlander has been arrested for burning a . French lobster factory here, avowedly with the intention of provoking

a crisis on the French shore question. He boasts that the jury will acquit him. - t ATHENS, April 4. M. Zaimis, the ' Greek Premier, has re1 signed rather than await a hostile vote. STOCKHOLM, April 4. An emissary sent to Siberia by King Oscar of Sweden to inquire regarding the alleged finding of Andree's remains reports I that he is not convinced that the story told by the 'funguses is a hoax. He is hopefully following up the clue. CAPETOWN, April 5. The New South Wales Lancers, who ara en route to England by the Nineveh, have arrived here. They were entertained by the Cape volunteers at the latter' s Easterencampment. ♦ .