British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 March 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign.

ELECTIIIC TELfcUKAI'H —COrYBIGHX. [l'JiK i'PJSSS ASSOCIATION, i IN CHANCERY.' London, March 8. Stories of mythical millions in Chancery have been dissipated by ail official return showing that only £1,250,000 i«Lawaiting , claimants. There have claims made aits the sum " V"* officD received 500 the majority of them being fiora the United States.

HOME RULE. (Received This Day 9.5 a.m. London, March ( J. The lit. /Eon. JL H. Asquith has announced that the lister .counties will be allowed to take a poll ;is to whether they should be excluded for six years. Before that period expires Jthe electors of the United Kingdom would have an opportunity to say whether such exclusion should continue. . Mr Bonar Low demanded that the electors should be consulted at once otherwise Hie Unionists would be unable to accept the pro. posals: ; (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) XHE SUFFRAGETTES" London, March 9. Several suffragettes have been fined for participation in Sunday's disturbances in Trafalgar Square. Sir E. Carson has received an Ulster suffragette deputation. . The latter was greatly dissatis- { fied with his reply which was not divulged.

OBITUARY. . Mr Townsend Alurtin, an American millionaire banker. He was Jong actively interested in East •kncl slum work. STREET ACCIinSNTvS Eighteen thousand, nine hundred and. forty-four street accidents occurred in London in 191-3 chiefly due to motor traffic. Five hundred and seventy-nine proved fatal. NOT PERPETUAL. Capetown, March 9. General Smuts, in moving the third reading of the Indemnity Bill, emphasised the fact that the banishment of the deported leaders was not necessarily perpetual. A temporary permit would be issued to them und.er the Immigration Act if they made out a satisfactory case.