HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11482, 15 January 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

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NEW OUNARDERS,

(Received January 14th, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 13. The firms of Vickere, Maxim and Co., and Swan and Hunter, of Newcastle, will build the new Cunardere. A.BISHOP'S ILLNESS. Dr. Webber, Bushop of Brisbane, at present on a visit to England, is suffering from ill-health, and his condition is most grave, owing to insomnia and weakness of the heart. WINTER IN ENGLAND. Snow several inches deep fell at Sheernees and elsewhere in England. Racing at Birmingham was stopped, owing to the weather. A DISASTROUS LANDSLIDE. A landslide at Nankin killed two hundred Chinese. TRANSCONTINEiNi.AL EXPRESSJifcS. Tri-weekly expresses across Siberia have commenced. Tbe journey from London to Port Arthur occupies eighteen days. AMBASADOR'S ADVICE DISREGARDED. NEW YORK, January 13. Dr. yon Holleben has informed hie American friends that every step taken by. Berlin was contrary to hie advice. A MATADOR'S LAST BULL FIGHT. Francisco Matdilera, a famous bullfighter, slipped during a fight at Juarez, in Mexico, in the presence of five thousand people, and the ball gored him to death RUSSIA AND HER NAVY. ST. PETERSBURG, January 13. The Russian Government's pressure has stopped negotiations for the transfer of four twenty-knot volunteer cruisers to a foreign company, and they will henceforth be held with others in reserve at Odessa, PRINCESS LOUISE'S LOVER. BERLIN, January 13The newspapers hert publish accounts of the former escapades with women of M. Giron, the tutor who eCoped with tthe Princess Louise of Saxony. THE GREAT BANK NOTE FORGERIES. CAPETOWN, January 13. Hermanus Bernstein, who was implicated in the Bank of England forgeries, was arrested here, in possession of many forged notes, and bas been extradited. FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR P. SARGOOD. (Received January 16th, 1.2 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 14. The service at the funeral of the late Sir F. Sargood was fteld in Scots' Church, and was attended by Sir E. Barton, Sir John See, the leading commercial men, and members of the Federal and States Parliaments. Dr. Bruce delivered an impressive oration. SOUTH-WEST GALE. A heavy south-west gale is raging on the coast, and the weather k almost wintry. TREASURY BILLS. The Government received advice that a million pounds' worth of Treasury bills was floated in London at par. OBITUARY. Mr Rowe, private secretary to tihe Governor, k dead. He was recently attacked with typhoid fever, and consumption supervened. Aβ Fleet-Paymaster toe deceased saw considerable eervice in Africa. Hβ was present at the capture *of Benin cdty, and took part in the operation* against the Niger and Congo pirates, also in an expedition against the Arabs on the East Coast. IMMORALITY IN NORTH QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, January 14. The Bishop of North Queensland has returned from a visit through his diocese. He declares he is impressed with the degraded moral conditions of the bulk of the alien population in the north, and intends to proceed to the Southern States to arouse interest in northern missionary work. The indulgence in vice is so deplorable, he says, that common prudence calls at once for active steps.