British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 December 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign.

.[ei.ectiuc tklkgraph, copyright.] [per press association.] THE TUNNEL DISASTER, (deceived This Day 8.50 a.m.) Berlin, December IC. The train was. travelling , at a high rate of spe.ed ana the driver did not notice the debris on the line. The engine mounted this and struck the top of the tunnel, and great masses of masonry forming the roof of the tunnel collapsed. Six coaches were telescoped. A panic among the passengers followed and in the darkness several were trampled to death while attempting to burrow their way out of the smash. Nine are dead, being fearfully mutilated and 15 dangerously injured. TEST MATCH. Durban, December 10. Marylebone team's first innings closed for -150; Douglast, bowled Baumgartner, 119; Barnes, run out, nil: Strudwiek, not out, 2; Sundries 29. Cox took two wickets for 12- r ]; Nourse two for 74: Hartigan, 1 for 72; Baumgartner two for 99; Blanohenberg, one for 40; Taylor none for 47. South Africa in the second innings have no wickets down for 17. Taylor, 6; Hands, 11. Uain stopped play for the day. THE MADE AGJ3TTES. LONDON, December 10. Suffragettes fired St. Anne's Church, Aigburth. M.ueh damage was done, the organ being included. AN M.P's. INVESTMENT, (lieceived This Day, 9.20 a.m.) London, December lb\ H. C. Mallaby-Deeiy, M.1 , ., has purchased the Duke of Bedford's Convent Garden estate (of ' 19 acres) for several millions sterling. The estate includes the Convent Garden Market, tlie Opera House, several theatres, j and the National Sporting Club. It is the largest private purchase on record. HIGH PKAlSlTi'Oll Silt JOSEPH. The Navy League gave a luncheon in honour of Captain Halsev and the officers oi the H.M.S. New Zealand at the Hotel Cecil. Mr 11. A. Yerburgh, M. P., presided. The Duke of Norfolk, Lords Halsbury, Sydenham and Blyth, Admirals I'reeniantle and Moore were present. The Hon. Winston Churchill said that New Zealand's gift was one of the greatest acts o.f farseeing imagination any modern State could claim credit for. In some respects it might be considered an example and forerunner for the general gtii<lance. .Mr Churchill also paid a tribute to Australia's sacrifices and exertions.

THE FAR EAST. Tokio, Dec. 1(>. It is scmi-ofh'cially stated that Japan declines to agree to Russia's proposal to withdraw foreign troops from Chihli. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) MUST REPAY. London, Dec. Hi. Clergymen in the Bermondsey district have been ordered to repay a money-lender fifty pounds, being" unsolicited loans and costs. JEWELS AND MAID MISSING. A lady lost £200 worth of jewels at Torquay and the maid, named Graham, is missing. DUEL BETWEEN GIRL RIVAL'S. Two nineteen-year-old gii'ls, rivals for the affections of an apache, stripped to the waist and fought savagety with knives in the east end of Paris in the presence of a large crowd. One was stabbed badly in the head and chest and taken to (lie hospital, while the other escaped before the police arrived. A WRECK FOUND. Berlin, Dec 10. A vessel has been discovered keel upwards, at the mouth of the Ems river. It is believed to be the German steamer Narvick. The crew of 30 is missing and the pilot's body has been picked up,. TANGO PROHIiUTED. The King of Bavaria has prohibited his officers from dancing the tango. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) A DENIAL. The Hon. Winston Churchill denies that he will visit Germany* STR IKE COLLAPSING. l The Leeds strike is collapsing and hundreds of tramwaymen have resumed. CON( !ENTRATIN G R) Willi STATIONS. London, Dec. 10. The electric lighting scheme proposes to replace the existing thirteen power stations by several central generating stations, involving a total capital of about nineteen millions. STRIKE BALLOT PROPOSED The National Executive of the Postal Union Conference rejected the proposal to "hold an early strike ballot, and postpoued any question of drastic action until an appeal has been made to Parliament. OFF AGAIN. The Indrabarah has been refloated. NOTEBOOK REVELATIONS Paris, Dec. 16. Perrugia's notebooks show that ho contemplated selling the "Moua Lisa" to Mr Andrew Carnegie or Mr J. D. Rockefeller or Mr Pierpont Morgan. He went to London to dispose of the picture, but returned in a fortnight, having failed in the attempt. The Italian poliec have ascertained that Perrugia had an Italian accomplice.