British and Foreign.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43113, 4 July 1907, Page 2

British and Foreign.

(By Telegraph —Preea Association.) NE3WI YORK, Yesterday. Advices from Guatemala state that President Oabrore ha* ordered the arrest of 160 persons, including many notables, on charges of complicity _in the recent plot to assassinate him. Forty have been tried, and severe! sentenced to death. The Diplomatic Corps have lodged a protest. NEWCASTLE, Yesterday. As a result of the shipmaster's strike, three collieries are rendered idle. PERTH, Yesterday. Tobin, a member of the government exploring party, has been fatally speared by the blacks, MELBOTJJKNiE, Yesterday. The caucus of the Federal labor party decided to continue to support the government. PARIS, Yesterday. The Italian, Priuoe 8. Borghese, one of the contestants in the Pakin-Paris motor race, has arrived at Irkutsk. NEW! YORK, Yesterday. The u New York Globe ” declare* that within a year President Roosevelt will concentrate sixteen battleships in the Pacific.

The Washington officials have received infoimation that the Japanese contemplate a systematic boycott of American goods if the appeals for for the treatment oi, the Japanese in San Francisco are disregarded. Telegrams from Berlin state, that the Kaiser is taking every opportunity to show Germany is in a position to be America’s powerful friend. He paid conspicuous attentions to Andrew Carnegie at Kiel, and' the Ambassador.