HOME AND FOREIGN. LONDON, April 10.

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 16

HOME AND FOREIGN. LONDON, April 10.

The Duke and Duchess of York have started on a visit to Ireland.

The Duke of Connaught has accepted the succession to the Dukedom of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha vacatefi by the death of Prince Alfred.

April 11. In the recent gale on the British coasts the fishing fleet at Lowestoft lost gear of the value ,of £20,000.

The Westminster Gazette regrets the precipitancy of the New Zealand Midland railway debenture-holders in petitioning the Stock Exchange to refuse to quote the colony's loans. It advises the Exchange to be cautious.

Commenting on the personnel of the Australian Eleven, Prince Ranjitsinhji says that no finer combination ever visited Britain. The pace, method, and variety of the bowlers are splendid, and there will be no weak fieldsmen among them. The captaincy of Harry Trott will, however, b3 greatly missed.

The tin market is strong.

Anril 12." Another new steamer, the Salamis, built to the order of George Thomson and Co., owners of the Aberdeen White Star line, has been launched. "

The new British torpedo-boat destroyer Albatross, built by Thornycroft and Co., Chiswick, on a trial trip developed a speed of 37 miles per hour. A syndicate is seeking to obtain a monopoly of wireless telegraphy in England and Africa.

The Queen returns from her visit to the South of France on May 6. The Hon. W. P. Reeves, in a letter to The Tiinv.s in reference to the action of the Midland railway debenture-holders' petition, says that he does not believe that the executive of the London Stock Exchange will perpetrate so^grave an injustice as to intervene while an appeal is pending.

April 13. The Times, commenting on the death of Mr James Service, ex-Premier of Victoria, says his integrity and disinterested motives won the resnect of all parties. His gentle, elevated influence will be missed. The Daily Chronicle says Mr Service was one of the best of citizens, and the most upright of leaders, equally esteemed in London and Melbourne. Mr Hooley applied to Mr Justice Wright to hear an application for his discharge from bankruptcy instead of the registrar hearing it. Mr Justice Wright, while he could not accept the allegation against the registrar, transferred the case because it involved questions which were best decided by the High Court. Sir Thomas Ksmonde, M.P., intends lo ask the Irish County Councils to each bend two delegates to a conference in Dublin, forming practically a people's parliament, for the discussion of national questions. Claudo Vautin, the Westralian mining speculator, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment on a charge of defrauding the shareholders in certain mining companies to the extent of £20,000. Tin is flat at £113. Mr Herbert Gladstone has been chosen to succeed Mr Ellis as chief Liberal whip in the House of Commons. April Ifl. In accordance with the recent decision of Mr Justice Homer, the Government Auditor has allowed relief to be given in kind to the miners on strike at MerthyrTydvil, the cost to be surcharged to the local guardians. The sum of £1000 will also be given in cash by way of relief of ! the necessitous. ! Tho Pacific Cable Commission's report will be published in a fortnight. April 15. Viscount Peel haa reconsidered the mat- [ ter of his resignation from the Royal Com- ■ mission on Licensing. He will meet his own supporters, leaving the others to prepare separate reports. < Mr Chamberlain informed a deputation that it was intended to impose a prohibitive tariff upon the importation of liquor into British territories in Africa. A collier named Leyly was rescued from a flooded mine in Shropshire, after being 11 days without food. A farmer named Kechane and his son were found murdered on a highway at Skibbereen, County Cork. Sir Henry Irving was accorded an ovation upon making his reappearance at the Lyceum Theatre after his recent illness. The house was crowded with a brilliant assemblage. Crowds of people waited on the pavement in front of the theatre for 11 hours before the house was opened. April 17. Frances, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough. PARIS, April 10. An epidemic of suicides prevails in this city. Seventeen cases were reported yesterday. April 11. Le Figaro states that Dr Bras, the wellknown bacteriologist, has cultivated the cancer microbe. April 16. M. Max Regis, who was recently sentenced in connection with the anti-Semitic riots at Algiers, has now "been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for insulting the Governor-general of Algeria. ST. PETERSBURG, April 10. The starving Tartars in the Kazan disj trict attacked the Imperial relief sanitary I expeditions, believing that their object i was to baptise Mohammedans into the Greek Church. April 15. The Czav does not intend to disarrange the internal regime of Finland as reconfirmed by the Czar in 18y4. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 12. The steamer Kin^&well collided with the

Turkish ship Marie in the' Mediterranean.. The latter was sunk, and 46. of her .-erew 1 drowned. ••*-•■' • • ROME; :April X%* The King and Queen of Jtjaly.. reviewed the' French and Italian squadrons at Oagliari, on the south coast of Sardinia. Theyr Majesties lunched aboard the French flagship. The British Channel now cruiging in the Mediterranean, will visit CagliarX to-morrow. HONGKONG, April 12. The bubonic plague is spreading hereU Forty-three deaths are reported. CAPETOWN, April 10. Two hundred and seventy-nine miles of the Uganda railway have been cOttt structed. *"" • ■ Mr J. W. Saner, Commissioner of Pubh'o Works at Cape Colony, cancelled a special train that had been 'engaged at a cost of £2000 to convey 500 volunteers, who ala voters at Vryberg election", to" the polls;. The Minister took this .course because capitalists had paid, for the train. Great: indignation has been expressed at Mr Sauer'a action. : ' • •April 16.; .At the parliamentary election at Vryburg both seats were won by. Afrikander candidates. - • .. : PRETORIA, April 15..President Kruger will not allow outdoor meetings of the Uitlanders to -be - held 1 at Johannesburg, he being apprehensive of serious consequences. April 15,. The charge against Webb and Dodtf for convening a meeting of Outjlandera to protest against the shooting of Edgar was dismissed. WASHINGTON, April 12, Tho peace ratifications between America and Spain have been exchanged from here. America has paid to Spain 20,000,000d0l as indemnity for tho Philippines. NEW YORK, April 11. The trial of American Senator Quay, on a charge of conspiring to misuse tho Pennsylvania State funds, has commenced at 3'hiladelphia. Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, is the | guest of Cardinal Gibbpns, at Baltimore. j He has studied the working of the Catholic University in Washington. April I<L, News has reached here that a revolution has been proceeding for some tune in Bolivia. Colonel Pando, leader of the revolutionists, has defeated tho Government forces under President Alonzo, killing 200 of them. ST. JOHN'S, April 16. In November last Mr Alfred Morine, Receiver-general of Newfoundland, resigned at the request of Sir Herbert Murray, then Governor, because he had acted as legal adviser to Mr B. G. Reid, the Montreal contractor, in connection with the latter'a contract with the Government for the transfer of the colony's railways and . telegraphs. Lieutenant-colonel Sir H. E. M'Calluin, the present Governor, has reinstated Mr Morine, and protested against his predecessor's innuendoes against Mr Reid and othei's associated with tho latter's contract.