British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 March 1914, Page 3

British and Foreign.

[ELECIRIC TELEGRAPH, COPYRIGHT. | ll'hit PRESS ASSOCIATION.] v London, March 10. Violent gales continue along the British- Coast and the. Belgian si earner Bucarest is distressed at Peterhead. The lifeboats have been launched and the rockets got ready. The obsolete battleship Revenge is adrift at Ryde, endangering shipping.

The wildest weather is raging i'n the Channel and the NewhavenDieppe. ferry service is suspended. Heavy rains flooded the Thames Valley and many districts elsewhere are submerged. Stormy conditions also prevail on the Continent. The Rhine valley is flooded and the Seine is rising. Paris is alarmed and

many sea and land tlegraphs are interrupted. A. suffragette horsewhipped Dr Devon, the Scottish Prison Commissioner, while he was entering the Glasgow prison. The suffragette was knocked down but not arrested. Suffragettes fired the Midi and railway carriages 'at Kingsnorton. Six were destroyed and three badly damaged There has been a large increase in the number of church services interrupted by suffragettes'

- prayers. The Great Eastern railwaymen t held a meeting at Stratford, and passed a resolution that strike no- , tiees be issued 011 Monday, failing 1 the re-instatement of Fairweather, 1 a railway policeman, who was dis. " missed for attending a union meeting. Fairweather asserts that he has been deliberately victimised because lie sought to maintain his rights of citizenship. St. Petersburg, March 1.0. A fierce gale swept over the Kuban district for ten hours 011 Friday night. A waterspout devastated six villages in flic Esir and Kcrtch districts. One hundred and seventy-six navvies on the Kuban railway were sleeping sn huts. They fled bofore the flood and took refuge in the railway carriages. When the flood subsided terrible scenes were witnessed, the carriages and the wrecked huts were piled 111 a high heap, and corpses strewn on top. There are only 48 survivors, who were miraculously saved on the highest heap. One township, consisting of workmen's dwellings was overwhelmed, and out of 1000 it is feared that only eight were saved. Many perished at Temj-julv. Received This Day 11.20- a.m.) London, March 10. Tugs have secured the "Revenge | undamaged.. The TJt. Hon H. H. Asquith in the House of Commons said that if the Government's proposals are rejected, it would be a waste of time to formulate details for discussion. He was not prepared to put a cut-and-dried scheme on paper as he wished to keep tho discussion to the main issue. Tf the proposals were accepted tho n*ill would require administration and finanieal adjustments. The Lord-Lieutenant will have 110 jurisdiction in the excluded area. The Government was not much encouraged by the reception of the proposals. I'eplying to Mr Bonar Law the Hon. Mr. Asquith promised an opportunity to discuss the proposal at the earliest date. 1 Sir E. Carson interjected with a remark that th(* course the Government was now taking showed that the proposals were a hypocritical sham.

Suva, This Day

A wireless message from the Lnn Group indicate that only slight damage was done by Friday's h Ulrica no, except at Lomaloma, where 27 native houses were destroyed: and at Bavnlu,wh ••re the cocoanut trees were badly damaged. The Government is sending relief lo Ihe natives. •