HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 266, 26 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

A BKIUSH BY-ELECTION. Received 25, 9.56 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 24. At the election Mr ltowtaad Hunt (Chamber hun-Unlonist) polled 4393 votes, defeating Mr iHotrne, 3423, BIG SELF-DENIAL SCHEME, LONDON, Dec. 24. Bishop Ingram recouiniatds a six week's LortU-u self-<demal in London parishes to raise £30,000 for the purpose of handing over to tire County Council all church schools free of debt and in goad repair at Easter. The project is being influenJially supported. AN INHUMAN OFFICES. BERLIN, Dec. 24. Captain Cassia arte vas placed under arrest for four weeks at Colmar, for not allowing a man complaining of the heat while at drill to return <to barracks. The man died of sun stroke. ANOTHER CARNEGIE DONATION. LONDON, Dec. 24. Mr Carnegie has given four million dollars as relief to injured workmen and for indemnification of families of workmen killed in the Carnegie Steel Company's employ. FRANCE IN MOROCCO. M Received 26, 0.42 a.m. f , PARIS, Dec. 25. la pursuance of M. Delcasse's pol* W ey_ of pacilic penetration in Morocco r G * T>era ' O'Connor, who bombarded Finigo in the summer, has been transferred to France. HORRIBLE BRUTALITY, Received 26, 0.55 a-m. BERtitN, Dec. 2.5. Sergeant Knopjj was sentenced to fourteen months' imprisonment, havtag teen found guilty of 170 gases of mal-treatment of aoMwrs. One iuiSMM to avoid brutality. WHOLESALE MURDER. BELGRADE, Dec. 25. Three men entered tie house of a former State Coun-il-Melosch ' <*» of the wealthiest citizens in Behrrade hilu ' "Smgepowsly wounding his Wile and daughter and two One of the murderora