News of the World.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12204, 3 March 1903, Page 5

News of the World.

tfritisb. aud Foreign Telegrams.

United Press Association. — By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. Received lllarcn '4, 10.20 a.m. A MATRIMONIAL SOLACE. Berlin, March 2.

The Crown Prince of Saxony will probably marry the sister of his divorced wifo the Princess Louise, who eloped with her children's tutor. FOOD SUPPLIES IN ENGLAND. London, March 2.

The recently formed Imperial Food Supplies Association is starting operations in the provinces forthwith.

IN AFRICA. Cape Town, March 2. Uniform time has been initiated between Cape Town and Cairo. All public clocks in South Africa were advanced half an • hour on Sunday midnight. f GRICULTURE IN INDIA. London, March 2. Mr Henry Philps, the American who recently donated a large sum for tho relief of indigent Boers, /has given Lord Curzon another £10,000 to esr tablish a ' centre for agricultural education and scientific research in' India. - i NEGROES IN AMERICA. ! — New York, March 2. President Roosevelt declares that the \ attitude of the Souther States will ! not induce him to vary by a hairbreadth his policy regulating negroi appointments. - SIR GAVIN DUFFY. London, March- 2. The remains of the late Sir Gavin Duffy are lying in state at the proj Cathedral,, Dublin. ! : iF-LQOD^ IN PENNSYLVANNIA. | ' ' . ■ New York, March 2. i Floods in Pennsylvania inundated lan area of fifty-six square miles, throwing idle 40,000 men.