HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11494, 29 January 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric TelegTaph—Copyright. AMALGAMATION OF ANTHRACITE COMPANIES. (Received January 28th, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON. Janunry 27. The Welsh anthracite ooal mining companies are forming a combination with a capital of four millions sterling. SUPPLIES FOR THE NAVY. The Admiralty notifies that it will shortly invite tenders for canned meat, and will request packers, who are not already on the list, to send their names and samples, and to appoint agents in London. BRITAIN'S NEW BATTLESHIPS. The new IJritish 18,000-tou battleships will be each--armed with four 12in, eight 9.2 in, and twelve 6in guns, and will have r.me inches of armour. The probable speed will l>e nineteen knote. MESSRS ROBERT CAMPBELL AND SONS.

The report of Messrs Robert Campbell and Sons, of New Zealand, shows a profit of A dividend oi Is 6d has been deaared.. and £5346 carried forward.

FINANCIAL AID FOR MOROCCO. PARIS, January 27. The Paris bankers are' lending Morocco £280.000 for four years on customs guarantees.

COUNT YON BALLESTREINS RESIGNATION. BERLIN, January 27. Count Yon Ballestrein, ex-President of the Reichstag, has been made a hereditary member of the Upper House of Prussia. [A sensation was caused a few days ago by Count Yon Ballestrein resigning owing to the criticisms of a number of Conservative newspapers, which asserted that he stifled discussion upon the Kaiser'a recent speeches dealing with the late HerrKrupp.] PROJECTING ELECTRIC WAVES. Professor Brawn, of Strasburg, claims to have discovered a method for projecting a n unlimited, volume of electric waves any distance through the air in a given direction, reducing the danger of interception. AN APPEAL DISMISSED. (Received January 28th, 9.44 a.m.) LONDON, January 28. The Yorkshire Miners' Association's appeal against the injunction againsst. strike pay in connection with the Decaby main strike, has been diamiseed. THE POPE AND THE BIBLE. ROME, January 28. The Pope has appointed a. commission, consisting cf five cardinals, with, eleven comsultors, to inquire into the scope «f Biblical exegises. It. is believed the mquiry as to be of a comprehensive nature, including the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures.