HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11491, 26 January 1903, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. IMPERIAL FOOD SUPPLIES ASSOCIATION. (Received January 24th, 9.6 a.m.) LONDON, January 23. The Imperial Food Supplies Association is issuing a quarter of a million sliares for publio subscription. Mr Geddes is chairman of the Association, and Mr Hotson manager. A BANKRUPT DISCHARGED. Tho Bankruptcy Court granted Mr B. J. Pink, formerly of Melbourne, a discharge, subject to a judgment for payment of a nominal sum. AN IRONMASTER'S WEALTHBERLIN, January 23. The late Herr , Krupp'e fortune has been assessed at nine and a quarter millions sterling. THE KAISER'S BIRTHDAY. (Received January 25th., 5.19 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. The King invited Count Wolff Metteraioh, the departing German Ambassador, to dinner at Windsor on the Kaiser's birthday. A GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT. The Hon. Charles Hardinge, secretary to the British Embassy at St. Petersburg, has succeeded 1 Lord Bertie, who was recently appointed British Ambassador at Rome, as Assistant-Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. ROUMANIAN OFFICIALS ARRESTED BUCHAREST, January 24. M. Parisiano, vice-director of the Public Debt of Roumania, and M. Dimitresco. an official in the same department, have bsen arrested on charges of dishonesty in connection with the issue of a four per cent, jloan.