BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 1278, 27 November 1903, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

baited i'ress Association —Copyright. LONDON, November 25. Sir Horace lozer, afttv reading Dr. Thompson a paper on Queensland s progress and resources, at the Royal colonial institute, denied that the Pacrac Cable was l!osmg money. A man named .Days', a bpardinghoussekeeper, was remanued on a ctiarge of ottering Monchard, a Frenchman, ±u0 to cut tne throat of Joseph Havelock, general secretary of the iNational Seamen's Union.

Dr. Ingram, Bishop of London, and many representative Stepney ministers propose to unite all London relief agencies and provide work for the unemployed outside the city, while keeping the homes of those who are destitute intact.

BERLIN, November 25. The wound in the Kaiser's throat has cicatrized, but he is still unable to speak freely. Dr. Yon Drygalski s Antarctic expedition, in the steamer Gauss, has returned to Kiel, and was welcomed by Prince Henry of Prussia. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 25.

The Czarina is suffering from protracted inflammation of the ear, causing anxiety, owing to the inner organs being inflamed. Gr«at floods have occurred here. Wheel traffic is suspended, and boats and rafts are used in the streets.

PARIS, November 25. M. Jacques Lebaudy^ who recently declared himself Emperor of Saharah, with the assistance of a Thames syndicate interested in the occupation of gunlunmng. is shipping thousands of modern rifles and many Maxims and field guns to the Grand Canaries, for use in Saharah. M. Lebaudy is also recruiting an army in Switzerland and elsewhere abroad. » LISBON, November 25. Many Portuguese railway officials are implicated in systematic robberies of foreign mail trains. NEW YORK, November 25. General Wossgil (President) and his Ministers have taken refuge on a German warship, surrendering Santo Domingo to the insurgents. Enthusiasm prevails throughout the Republic. In connection with an application received by the United States Shipbuilding Company correspondence b:>s ' produced showing that Mr Schwa'l tried to briba Mr Nixon, president of the company, with 200,000 dollars to accept a reorganisation of, the scheme.