HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11496, 31 January 1903, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Eleitric Telegraph—Copyright. WESTRALIAN GOLD MINING OOMPANIKS. (Received January 30tb, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, January 29The proposal to amalgamate the Associated Northern Blocks of the Oroya and Brown Hill, and the Associated Gold Mines of Westralia, with a capital of two milions, has fallen through. SEMI-TEETOTALISCSI. The semi-teetotal movement in England is making rapid strides, especial}' in business circles. The pledge is to abstain betweej} meals. M#ASQUITH AND THE GOVERNMENT. Speaking at Hull, the Right Hon. H. H. Aequith, M.P., congratulated the Government on the progress of the pacification of South Africa. He approved of the Alaska treaty. ■ 'BEQUEST TO KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. Mr Robert Storks, a son of the late Sergeant Storks, Governor of the King's College HospLtail, has baqueathed £60,000 to the hospital. BRIBERY AT AN ELECTION. Over two hundred and fifty persons have been disfranchised in connection with the reoenrt bribery at Shrewsbury. A hundred Liberate received Conservative money. [A cable message the other day stated that an enquiry into tbe municipal election at iShrewebury showed that out of 661 persons who voted, two-thirds had bee» bribed.] THE ERRING PRIXCESS. BERLIN, January 29.' Princc-ss Louise of Saxony ho* been deprived of all the rights and honours appertaining to an Austrian Archduchess. A special Divorce Court at Dresden its holding a sitting in camera. BRUSSELS SUGAR CONVENTION. | PARIS, January 29. France has ratified the Brussels Sugar Convention.

THE POPE AND THE BIBLE. ROME, January 29. The Pope is appointing forty-five prelates of different nationalities to advise the Bible Exegesis Commission*. [The Pope, a few days ago, appointed a commission, consisting of five cardinals, with eleven consuitore, to inquire into the scope of Biblical exegesis. It is believed the inquiry is to be of a comprehensive nature, including the plenary in&piration of the Scriptures.] THE PEASENHALL MURDER. (Received January 30th, 9.32 p.m.) LONDON, January 30. Gardiner, who was charged with the murder of the girl Rose Harsent, at Peasenhall, and has been tried twice, the jury failing to agree on each occasion, has been released, a nolle prosequi having been entered. A BOGUS PRINCE. The "Daily Express" estates that Mabel, Countess Russell, who obtained a divorce from Earl Russell in 1901, married a bogus prince, calling himself Enthrobald Stuart de Modena. Upon -the discovery of the fraud the impostor fled to New York. IRISH SYMPATHY WITH LYNCH. The Irish Parliamentary party is very sympathetic with Lynch, and contributed £100 towards his defence fund. Many resolutions asking for clemency have been carried at meetings, and petitions having the same object are being signed throughout Ireland. KRUPPS ESSEN WORKS. January 30. Herr Rropp's widow proposes to convert the Essen works into a company, her daughter retaining the main interests. MINISTER (STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS. ROME, January 30. Signer Prinetti, Minister for Foreign, Affaire, while awaiting an audience in the Quirinal, wa , ? seized with partial paralysis. The King rendered aid. There is some prospect of the Minister's recovery. A DIVORCE CASE. (Received January 30th, 11.34 p.m.) LONDON, January 30. Mr Henry Norman, M.P. for Wolverhampton South, divorced his wife bn the ground of her adultery with Edward Arthur Ktzgerald, the well-known traveller and mountaineer. [Mr Henry Norman, is the well-known ouraalist and travellers, and author of the admirable "Peoples and Politics of the (ar East." He married in 1891 Miss Mene Muriel ~owie, a granddaughter of the celebrated Robert Chambers. Under the title of "A Girl in the Karpathians" •he published shortly before her marriage a graphic account of her venturesome and solitary travel* in that wild corner of Europe. She became still more celebrated as the author of "Gallia," one of the numerous sex-problem novels of the middle nineties. Mr E. A. Fitzgerald is, of course, well known in Christchurch for his mountaineering exploits with the guide Surhiggen in the Mount Cook district fjtzgeralde Pass, across into Westland, bears his name.] THE KING AND QUEEN. The King and Queen lunched with Lord Carrington at hw seat, at High and planted , trees to comniemorace their visit. COUNT YON BALLESTREIN. BERLIN, January 30. Count yon BaJlesfcrein has been re-elected President of the Reichstag. GERMANY AND HER "NE-v.ai.ul'KS' TARIFFS. B-hiiijlX, Jajvuary 30. ■ The headers of German' commerce are i stupefied at the arasuc increases in 1 he. ; new Au&tro-Hungarian and Russian tariffs. !