MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11559, 21 February 1906, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

London, February 19. Mount Pelee, Martinique, is again active. An eruption and ! earthquake at St. Lucia damaged every building at Port Castries. Lord Ashburton has married, in Paris, Francis Belmont, of Charles Hawtrey's Theatrical Company. The Wan join tribe in German East Africa are invading the Langenburg province at tho northern end of Lake Nyasaa. There has been severe j fighgting, therein Captain Wiese and a detachment of native soldiery were killed. It is feared that unless strong reinforcements be sent northern Nvflssa land will be ablaze. The' "Daily Chronicle's" Rome I correspondent reports that Don Jaime, son of Don Carlos, ha? received an audience with the Pope. He protested to tho Popo against King Alfonso's alliance with the Princpss of a Protestant House. Tho Pope replied that his consent was conditionally possible upon the bride's spontaneous abjuration of Porfcestantism, which step would be a private affair of conscience. Beyond this the Vatican did not in« tend to intervene. Tb.9 Yarrow shipbuilding Compflny of Poplar have acquired land at Glasgow, and intend to transfer thßir shipbuilding works thither. 11.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught hPS arrived at Yokohama. St. Petersburg, FehruaryJlO. Six bomb-j and' a quantity of arms have been discovered in the vicinity of the Putilofl' works, St. Petersburg. MaDy arrests have been made. New York, February 59. w Moyer. president of the Western Federation of Miners; Hey ward, the