NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 March 1901, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

An action has been called in the Court of Session in which tho Earl of Rosslyn sues his wife for a divorce. Sir Frank Smith, a member of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada, has died at Toronto at the age of 79. General lan Hamilton, G. 8., D. 5.0., is to be presented with the honorary freedom of the Borough of JTythe, his native town. Nineteen Nolingham lacemakcrs, who arrived at Boston by the steamer New England, but were detained, have now boon permitted to land. A special correspondent at Cowes says he hears that Prince Arthur of Connaught is to rcc.-ivo from the Kaiser the Prussian Order of the Red Engle, Mr Henry Arth or J ones’:; daughter Miss Ethel Wynne Jones, is about to be married to Mr Loveaux, auiing manager of the Garrick Theatre, London. 'The oilier morning the female dromedary, which takes part in the procession in “Cinderella” at the London .Hippodrome, gave birth to a calf. So far the little curiosity is doing very well. A tribute is said to have been paid to (he memory of the Queen by the Boer prisoners at Greenpomt, who decided, as a mark of sympathy, to suspend all their amusements until after Her Majesty’s funeral.

One of (he last acts of Her Majesty was to direct Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Fleetwood Edwards to send ,63 to Mr John Karfoot, a writer in the otlice of the Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, to show her appreciation of his having live sons in the Royal Navy. Messrs Bruce and Israay, of the White Star Line, have placed a contract with Messrs, rlarland and Wolff, of Belfast, for tho construction of another gigantic Atlantic liner, which is to measure 80HD tons more than the Oceanic and to have 7 feet more beam, with the same speed. Tho Daily Chronicle correspondent writes In reading, recently, a man in working clothes was observed gazing upon the statue of the Queen. When he turned away it was noticed his eyes were brimming over with tears —a silent tribute more eloquent than words.