HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 10 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

AN OUTRAGED PRINCESS. VIENNA, Dec. 3. Princess Otto Windischgratz, surpi'ising her husband alone with a Czecs actress, shot a valet who tried to hinder her entrance to the appartment, and afterwards killed the actress. The story is denied in Vienna, but the reports are very circumstont'ial. A CHANGED NATION. VIENNA, Dec. 8. Ah Austrian residing in the Transvaal, writing to the newspaper Neues Wiener, declares tilvat Britain's work in the Transvaal is absolutely unique, changing the IJoers' hatred into sincere respect, even affection. BRITISH IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. LONDON, Dec. S.British iinports for November increased by £3,(505,-000 and exports decreased by £.1,610,00, compared with the previous November. LION TAMER'S FATE. BERLIN, Dec. 8. Madame Fisher, a lion tamer, while giving -her thousandth performance at Dessau, was torn to pieces in the presence of her three children. Smith, an English lion tamer, rescued the remains after a conflict with ten Hons. DOWIE AGAIN. NEW YORK, Dec. 8. Dr. Dowifj, assisted by friends, i« arranging with his creditors and for a receivership in connection with Ziio.il City. STEAMERS COLLIDE. ! Received 10, 0.15 a.m. ATHENS, Dec. 9. The Greek steamers Pyloros and Assos collided at Athaca. The Pyloros' second class cabin was severely damaged, and- she sank. .Fifty passengers were 'drowned. FIRE ON A CRUISER. LONDON, Dec. 9. A fire lasting two hours occurred in the boatswain's storeroom on the cruiser Hermes at Devonport. The shell room was flooded at the outset, as a precaution. AMALGAMATION ABANDONED. LONDON, Dec. 9. The proposed amalgamation of the Manchester and Liverpool and Lloyds' banks has been abandoned. Received 10, 10.19 a.m. A BIG SPRIKE. PARIS, Dec. 9. Ten thousand silk dressers and dyers at Lyons struck for an advance in wages. COTTON CROP. NEW YORK, Dec. 9. The cotton manufacturers in Carolina are curtailing the output. PROMOTION.

LONDON. Dec. 9. Lieut.-Colonel J. S. Harrington, British Agent and Consul-General of Abyssinia, has bwn promoted to the rank of Minister Plentipotentiary.