HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11487, 21 January 1903, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE BOVERIC SALVAGE AWAKD. (Received January 20th, 8.47 a.m.) LONDON, January 19The owners of the Naming have been awarded seven thousand pounds for salving the Boveric. [The Boveric was one of the vessels I employed during the Botr war in transporting remounts fiom Australasia to Sooth Africa. Between Australia arm Africa, ou one of her trips, she broke down, and was towed back to Australia by the Narrung. She had a large number of horses aboard, and of these some died, and the others were not sent on to Africa. The consignors of the animale sought to obtain damage but faifed.] THE DELAYED LINER. NEW YORK, January 19. Passengers by the St. Louia are suing the ownens for damages for delay, alleging that the boilers were overhauled at South ampton. [The St. Louis, bound from Souhampton to New York, was three days overdue. A cable message published yesterday, stated that the delay was due to the fact that a succession of heavy gales had sorely tried her boilers.] M. DE BLOWITZ'S DEATH. (Received January 20th, 5.29 p.m.) LONDON, January 19. M. de lilowitz succumbed to appendicitis. ADULTERATED BUTTER. Mr Hiuibury introduces the Adulterated Butter Bill before Easter. FIGHTING ON THE ALGERIAN FRONTIER. PARIS, January 19. Owing to fierce tribal fighting on the frontier of Algeria, the French Algerian Cavalry are mobilising. THE DISTRESS IN BRITTANY. The Chamber of Deputies voted half a million francs to assist, the distressed Bretons. OBSTRUCTION IN AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT. VIENNA, January 19.

The Reichsrath had a fifty-four hour sitting, owing to the obstruction of the Czech party. PUNISHMENT OF TRAITORS. Pour civilians of Krzemysl received sentences varying from three to fifteen months, wii-i one day in each week without food, to be spent on a plank bed, for selling mi'itary secrets to Russia. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A PATRIARCH. (Received January 20th, 10.41 p.m.) LONDON, January 20. Reuters Agency states that a chemist's assistant at Constantinople, named Hotchikian, belonging to Eraeroum, and supposed to be a revolutionary emissary, shot Monsignor Ormanian, the Armenian Patriarch, in the shoulder during mass. CHEi>y MATCHES BY MARCONIGRAMS. NEW YORK, January 20. Marconigraphs enabled chess matches to be played between the liners Philadelphia and Lucania going to New York.