BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16486, 27 February 1914, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, COLONISTS HONOURED. LONDON, February 25.

The Empire Parliamentary Association will give a luncheon to Mr D. F. Denham (Premier of Queensland) and Mr A. M. Myers, M.P., at tho House of Commons on March 3. Mr Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonics, will preside. •, VARIETY ARTISTS PROTEST. Complaints are made by variety artists that revues are throwing them out of work. A ROYAL KINEMATOGRAPHER. BERLIN, February 1 26. Prince Henry of Prussia is taking lessons in kinernatography with a view to utilising it during his coming visit to South America. JOHNSON AGAIN. PARIS, February 25. Whilo lunching in a restaurant, Mrs Johnson, wife of tho coloured pugilist, complained that a passing American insulted her. . Johnson hit out and pursued him into the restaurant kitchen, where the man seized a knife, but the cook disarmed him. BUDAPEST BOMB OUTRAGE. BUDAPEST, February 26. The perpetrators of the Miklossy outrage are Roumanians. The Government in a proclamation declares that the purpose of tho outrage was to injure HungarianRoumanian relations,, but the Government desires to promote friendship.