HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11505, 11 February 1903, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND. (Received February 10th, 10-17 p.m.) LONDON, February 10. The keel of the battleship New Zealand haa been laid at Portsmouth. A TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION. VIENNA, February 10. Three hundred and seventy private houses and many public buildings were burnt at Kutz, in Galicia. Five hundred families are homeless. DISASTROUS FLOODS IN SCOTLAND. (Received FiTiruary 10th, 10-37 p.m.) LONDON, February 10. Seventy hours' rain caused the Clyde to burst its banks at Rutherglen, flooding hundreds of acres occupied by factories. Thousands of workmen have been thrown idle. EXTENSION OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. » (LONDON, February 10. Marconi, interviewed, said he expects to communicate with India and Australia. nALY AND THE ORIENT STEAMERS. ROME, February 10. With a view to preventing the Orient steamers "from ceasing to'call at Naples, tlie Italian Government will provide a post office there, and will institute special mail trains when arrangement*! lave been concluded with tlie French railway system. A WELL KNOWN SINGER KILLED. NEW YORK, February 10. William Paull, the well known baritone, who visited Australia with Madame Albani, •was killed by falling from a sixth-floor window of'an hotel at St. Louis. MGHTTNG IN THE PHILIPPINES. News has been received that a hundred of hue Constabulary defeated, two bundled Filipinos at Mariquira, killing fifteen. Inspector Hania and two Americans \Pere wounded. BRIGHAM YOUNG'S GRANDSON. Brigbaim Young's grandson pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of murder, and was sentenced to penal servitude for life-