HOME AND FOREIGN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11689, 22 November 1892, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN

I_By Electric Telegram — OorritioHT.] (Peu Press Association.) London, November 10. A steamer collided with and overthrow , a small lighthouse in Uelfast Lough, the ; inmitea bning drowned. n A sensation has been caused in social , circles on it boinsr learnt that Mrs ( Catherine Maude, the wife of an officer ( of hi^h rank, had committed suicide in , tho hotfil at which they resided. Her £ daughter ha I been arrested on a charge of stealing silver plato from tho premises of Spinks. the well-known jewellers, and it is alleged that the orimo was instigated by the mother. Later. The jury returned a verdict of insanity ' in the case of Mrs Maude, who committed suicide this week. The jurymen empanelled in the case of McKae, charged with tho Althorp mur. dor, left tho Court at the luncheon hour. The Judges, therofore, postponed the trial until next Assizes, and fined the ' jurymen J650 each. Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Thirsk railway accident, resulted in a verdict cf manslaughter being returned against the signalman. The jurymen considered tho Directors of the company were responsible for insisting on long shifts. Messrs W. Perry and Co., of Sydney, being unable to fill an arrangement for paying the amountof acompo3ition agreed upon, a meeting of creditors will be held to-day. The liabilities are about jEIOO.OOO, and the assets, on paper, are of similar amount. A letter in the Pall Mall Gaz-stte warns emigrants against proceeding to Australia. It states that there are 23,000 unemployed in Sydney, and 21,000 in Melbourne. The Pall Mall Gazette, commenting on Sir Charles Lilley's statement regarding the ultimate independence of the colonies, feais that the Intercolonial federation Bill will meet the same fate in the Queensland Parliament as did the Naval Defence Bill. Sir Julius Yogel is appointed London agent of the New Tork Life Insurance Company. The Government hive sent Captain McDonald to make further inquiries re the railway in Uganda. Tho Rev. Dr Olutterbuck, who was sentenced to four years' imprisonment on a charge of embezzlement, has died in gaol. The Norwegian guano barque Ida, from Australia, has been wrecked at Guernsey. The crew were saved. The officers of II MS. Warspite, which went ashore on the western coast oE America, have been acquitted on the graver charge, but reprimanded for the minor offence of carelessness. The Merchants' Exchange at Cardiff and other buildings have been burned. Great damage vms done. Mr James Lowther, President of tho Natioaal Agricultural Conference, which meets next month, advises the imposition of r . duties, on imported goods competing with British produce on the basis of a sliding scale, which would cease to operate when the market price of the former exceeds that of tho Uqm'o article He contends that the establishment of preferential rates in favour of the. colonies would secure the maintenance of supplies. Lisbon, November 19. A bomb was exploded at the residence of the President of the Eeception Committee formed to welcome the King and Queen of Portugal on thoir return visit to Spain. Fortunately no one was harmed. Paris, November 10: Owing to the extradition of the .Anarchist Francois frjni England, the Anarchists havo threatened 'o destroy the British. Embassy. The Premier lias carried the Bill to restrict the power of the pres3 without division. Berlin, November 19. Prince Louis of Bavaria has married a dancer in tho Court Theatre in Munich. New Tork, November 19. Wall, the Australian bookmakor.ariivod in Chicago last March with 60,000 dollars and opened a book on the Sarfield Park meetings. He usually kept his money in a leather satchel Wall, who apparently was a loser at the meetings, mysteriously disappeared, and it was thought that ho was disgusted with his luck, and had returned to Australia. The satchel was recently found empty on a prairie near Chicago, and this has given rise to the fear that he has been murdered. The police kept the matter quiet, hoping to obtain definite information respecting Wall, but up to the present have not been successful. Inquiries are Btill proceeding. While tho electors were celebrating the election of Mr Grover Cleveland in a schoolhouso nt Faytjtteville, Arkansas, an explosion took place, destroying the building. Four persons were killed and 15 injured. The outrage is attributed to political spite. Mr William Lidderdale, governor of the Bank of England, who is on a visit to New York, was welcomed by the Presidents of upwards of 100 banking institutions in the Unitod States. Great Britain and the colonies occupy 430,000 square feet of space at the Chicago Exhibition. Grana Master Workman Fowderley is asking the JCnights of Labour to favour the exclusion of emigrants who are unable to support themselves for ono year after, landing in. the country. Tho Commissioner of Navigation for the Unitod States suggests the imposition of discriminating duties upon Australian goods imported via Canada, in retaliation for the adverse treatment of United States goods by tho Canadian-Pacific Railway Company,