HOME AND FOREIGN.
United Press Association—By Electric ' Telegraph—Copyright. MUNITION'S OF WAR FOP. SERVIA. (Received' January 29th, 8.28 a.m.) VIENNA, January 28. Servia has contracted with an Austrian tfrm for forty-five million cartridges and other warlike material. j INDIA'S CORONATION CELEBRA- j TIONS. v/ALCUTTA. January 28. Sixty thousand natives were feasted at Calcutta in connection with the Coronation celebrations. THE OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE. LONDON, January 28. The Oxford-Cambridge boat race hae been fixed to take place on April 2nd. SIR WILLIAM STEWARD'S KNIGHTHOOD. The Hon. William Jukes Steward, of New Zealand, has been gazetted a knight. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN IRELAND. The Royal Commission on University education in Ireland rejects the proposed Catholic Denominational University,. and recommends an increased endowment to the uesuite . University at St. Stephen's Green or that the Archbishop and Bishop be granted a new College with a Catholic atmosphere. The Commi&uou suggests an increased grant to the Belfast Queen's College with a view to ite development. THE EMPRESS DOWAGER'S PRESENTS. The frequency and extent of the EmpreßsPowager'e presents to the foreign Ministers at Pekin cause embarrassment, sinco they are unable to reciprocate or to refuse to accept them. ITALY TO ADOPT MARCONI'S SYSTEM. ROME, January 28. The Italian Cabinet has adopted a Bill for th« construction of a Marconi station in connection with a scheme for the transmission of ethergrams between Italy and South America. ANOTHER CARNEGIE BEQUEST. (Received January 29th, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 29. Mr Aodiew Carnegie has offered a quarter of a imfllion dollars (£50,000) to provide a library for tihe x*agTie Court of Arbitration. RUSSIA AND THEJDARDANELLES. CONSTANTJNOILE, January w. A third Russian torpldo vessel has passed through the Dardanelles.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11495, 30 January 1903, Page 5
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276HOME AND FOREIGN. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11495, 30 January 1903, Page 5
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