British and Foreign.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43116, 20 July 1907, Page 2

British and Foreign.

(By Tel@gra.pih —Press Association.) MOROCCO, Yesterday. The Sherif of Wazan is influencing the tribes to co-operate with the Sultan’s troops in surrounding Raisuli. Mac Lean is kept a close prisoner, a deep trench being dug around his tent to prevent escape. NE|W! YORK, Yesterday. A heat wave prostrated thousands yesterday at Phililadelphia. CAPETOWN, Yesterday

The executive of the Miners Association at Johannesburg has decided by a large majority to declare the strike off, though the announcement of the fact was postponed. LONDON, Yesterday.

At the instance of R. L. Outhwaite a Parliamentary committee of the British Trades Union Congress appealed to the Trade Union to assist the rand strikers.

The House of Lords passed the Army Bill through the committee, and the Government accepted the amendment permitting Associations to expend fprivate funds on school batallions under the age of sixteen. THE HAGUE, Yesterday.

The Peace Convention during discussion of the Untied States proposal of the inviolability of private property at sea (which was rejected) Britain and Germany insisted on the necessity, first to settle the question of contraband and blockade before dealing with the abolition of prizes. Prof. Martens argued that j the abolition of privateering would enable merchants to benefit from a state of war. Britain will ask the Convention to adopt a resolution submitted at last conference respectively. Limitation armaments as a question now became more urgent, and Barons von Marschall -and von Bieberstem stated Germany did not consider the question pressing. M. Bourgeois, a French representative, personally favours the British position, but France considers the question academic. BOMBAY, Yesterda.y Lord Lamington has resigned the Governorship of Bombay, owing to his wife’s health. SYDNEY, YesterdayA special meeting of the Coal Lumpers Union to-day to discuss the employers’ latest proposals be levied, there was good reason for hoping an amicable settlement.

The city Coroner stated that of 600 deaths reported last year, a very large proportion were due directly or indirectly to excess of alcoholic liquor. VIENNA, Yesterday.

A waterspout devastated Neuwaldegg and Rerual, suburbs of Vienna,