HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11506, 12 February 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

■—— I United Press Association/—By Bl«o6nc Telegraph—Cop>/riffht. A 'MOTOR OAR VICTIM. (Received February 11/.li. 9.11 a.m.) LONDON, February 10. Mr George Edward CJolebrook, an Australian leather merchant,/of St. Mary Axe, Leadenhull street, was killed in a motor aocident in London. INCREASING RAILWAY SPEED. Tie new compound en; gines, drawing .550 tons, built for the Midlai'id Railway Co., attained a speed oS 82 mi ks en hour. A NEW ZEALAND . APPEAL OASB. LON r DC)N. February HIn the case, Wallis versus the SolicitorGeneral of New Zcab'tnd, the appeal wa« allowed with costs. A TRAGEDY AT TURIN. RC >.\LE, February 10. Signor Pa-siri, a ■ weahhy merchant, of Turin, mode love to two wom«i in separate towns, whom he had children. The women chanced to n.MtA ot Paslni'e house in Genoa, when a viollent scene ensued. The women, aided by Palsini, killed the children, and then all committed suicide. RUSSIA AND THE EASTERN TELEG RAPH CO. ST. PETERS! JURa February 10. Russia will not re new the Eastern Telegraph Co.'c arrange: ment concerning the Contitflotinople-Odess .a cab!e, which Turkey and Russia work jo=Lntly after June next. RUSSIA'S TYRANNY IN FINLAND. Fifteen thousand! conscripts in Finland who declined to a. \ppear for service, have been ordered to ra nain in the country for five years, ■while • those in administrative posts have been The communities that offered conspicuous resistance have been deprived T o f State lotrns. JAPANFJSI -; JEALOUSY. February 10. Th-e Japanese ne< ,v«yapexs are mortified at the Shah's decorvation -with the Garter, and declare that iEnAlana's ally had a prior claim. - , RUBINO SJENTENCED. fßeceived 11th, 10.11 p.m.) LOXiDON, Februarj- 11. Rubino, the An archi«t -who attempted the life of the Kir%ig of the Belgians, has beea «wnt«mc<Bd to gerritnde ior life.