British and Foreign.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43117, 23 July 1907, Page 3

British and Foreign.

(By Telegraph—Press Association,

LONDON, Yesterday. The Rand strikers cabled asking Churchill to support their demand for the repatriation of all Chinese next February, or provide passages to the Motherland for 3000 strikers. Lieutenant Addison, of South Australia, won the King’s Prize at ! Bisley with a score of 318, after Armourer-Sergeant Padgett, of the East Yorkshires, who scored 319, j had been disqualified because be was giveD an extra shot for a bad cartridge, which had missed the target. Lieutenant Addison tied with Private Hope, of the Second Middlesex, but won the shoot-off. The Australians won 8 out of 12 prizes presented by the London City Corporation for the best colonial scorers in the grand aggregate, winning £BO out of £95. SEOUL, Yesterday.

Though the town is momentarily quiet, the great influx of country folk causes apprehension of fresh riots. The Korean troops possess 90,000 rounds of ammunition and civilian agitators frequently j harangue them. The few Japanese 'troops guarding the two arsenals have been directed to destroy them if unable to defend until reinforcements come from Shimonoseki. The new Emperor directed the punishment of the Korean deputation j which went to the Hague.