HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10175, 24 October 1898, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Aseociatiotf-By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. LONDON, October 21. The ninety-third anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar celebrated. The Navy League decorated Nelson's column in Trafalgar square. THE CHANNEL FLEET. The Channel fleet has arrived at Villagarcia, in Northern Spain. A. P. C. CALVERT'S ESTATE. In connection witH the estate of A. F. Calvert, a West Australian mining sDeculator, against whom a receiving order was made, and who subsequently offered to assign half of his income to liquidate the claims,of a large number of it is now stated that Calvert is unable to pay more than 3s 9d in the £ cash, and the estate has been thrown into bankruptcy, and a trustee and committee of management were appointed. CASHING VALUELESS CHEQUES. The Hon. Philip Benedict Joseph Petre, a brother and heir presumptive of Baron Petre, has been sentenced to six months , imprisonment for cashing worthless cheques. ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN. The Rev. Gowan, vicar of Runton, in Norfolk, and his wife, have each been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for ill-treating their orphan nieces. ROUGEMONT'S STORIES. Sir George Newness advertisements in reference to Rougemont's stories, now appearing in the "Wide World Journal," admits that Rougemont is Grien, and says that if he is not speaking the truth he is a master of fiction unequalled since Defoe. SERIOUS DL.LNE&O OF LORD GLASGOW'S SON. ■\ <i \ . October 22. v Lord Glasgow ia. now hurrying to Malta, where his son, Lieutenant Edward Boyle, of the Third Battalion of Rpyal Scots Fusiliers, is ill, and in a critical condition, having been invalided from Crete. [The Hon. Lieutenant Edward Boyle is Lord Glasgow's second son, and is twentythree years of age.] ■ THE LIFE OF MR GLADSTONE. LONDON, October 23. Mr John Morley writes the life of Mr Gladstone. DUELLING IN ITALY. ROME, October 22. The trial of Signor Macpla, member of the H*lian Chamber,.._«!.■•: D*puti|W, for Jailing Signer Cavalotti, another member,of the Chamber of Deputies, resulted in a sentence of thirteen months , imprisonment. THE SOUDAN. CAIRO, October 22. Dervishes killedflight soldiers who were convoying treasure from Gedareff. THE KYBER PASS. BOMBAY, October 21. The Indian Government"has informed the Afridi tribesmen that India will retain the central Kyber Pass. RESIGNATION OF THE COREAN CABINET; ,SEOtJL, October 21. The Corean Cabinet has. resigned. The members of the Cabinet persistently resisted public petitions in favour of establishing a Parliament. A MOUNTAIN CLIMBER'S ACHIEVEMENT..-.. ■■ ■ LONDON, October 22. Sir William Conway, the well-known Alpine climber, climbed Mount Sorata, in the Andes, and readied an altitude of 24,000 ft. His further progress was barred by an imnassable crevasse. (Sir William M. Conway climbed a peak 23,000 ft high, in the Himalayas in 1892, and surveyed 2000 miles of mountains; he traversed the Alps from end to end in 1894, and explored the interior of Spitsbergen in 1896-97. In his latest achievement he has scaled one of the loftiest peaks of the Andes). IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. The Imperial Parliament has been prorogued till December Bth.