HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

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THE LONDON CHURCHES. (Received January 17th, 9.27 a.m.) LONDON, January 26. Archdeacon Sinclair, of London, and others have made numerous' suggestions in order to pwserve the City churches. THE FROZEN THAMES. The Thames is frozsn over at Marlow, where the ice is an inch thick. LONDON'S TRADE. It is noticeab.e thait the trade of the port of London is gradually moving dawn the Thames, leaving empty warehouses on the wharveSj which are likely to bo used as sites for housing workers. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL- . NEW YORK, January 16. Nicaragua hus declined to negotiate regarding the canal while Washington is negotiating with Colombia for th« Panama route. GIFT TO THE KAISEIt. BERLIN, January 16. The widow of a German banker has left the Kaiser one hundred thousand sterling. A GIRL'S REVENGE. PARIS, January 16. Mademoiselle Borloz, belonging to a prominent family at Vichy, shot and nearly killed the Abbe JacquetJe, for not fulfilling his promise to relinquish his ecclesiastical calling and marry her. THE iSOMALILAND RAILWAY. (Received January 18th, 4.45 p.m.) PARIS, January 17. King Meneldk haa accepted M. Delcasse's invitation to be present at Jibuti! at the inauguration of the railway. France will send a fleet to Jibutil to welcome him. [The railway from Jibutil, in Sbmaliland, to Horrar, the ohief city in Abyssinia, runs through the north of Sonialiland. It te a French undertaking, but is practically controlled by British capital] GERMAN CROWN PRINCE IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, January 17. The Czar and Czardtza welcomed the German Crown Prince at the Winter Palace. A State banquet was held, at which ihe toasts were given in French. HEAVY WEATHER AT FIJI. (Received Jamuary 18th, 5.17 p.m.) SUVA, January 18. A tunricane passed east of Fiji. Rough weather prevails at Suva, and feara are entertained of damage at Labasa, Tavduni, and Lav. No reports are yet in from those districts. A whirlwind struck Lakaniba on January let, and wrecked three cutters, several Fijians 'being injured. AN OVERDUE LlN , 'fill. (Received January 18th, 5 p.m.j NEW YORK, Janiury if. The , overdue Atlantic imer St. Louis passed Nant*cket lighthouse, going mad slow. A (succession of gales sorely tried the boilers. FIRE IN LONDON. LONDON, January 17. An alarming fire occurred at the Royal Exchange. It wae, however, extinguished in half an hour, tfhe damage being confined to the offices on the couth-cast side. AN ARMY APPOINTMENT. Lord GxenfeJl has been appointed Commander of the Fourth Army Corps. [Lord Grenfell is 62 years of age. He entered the Army in 1869, and served in the Kaffir War (1878), the Zulu War (1879), the Transvaal (1881-82), the Egyptian Ei■pedatiion (1882), and the Nile Expedition (1884). Hβ was Sirdar of the Egyptian forces from 1885 to 1892, Inspector-General of Auxiliary Forces, War Office, from 1894 to 1897, and Commander to the forces m .t/gypt in .1897-98. Since January, 1899 ne has been Governor and Commander-in-Ohief of Malta.]