BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 1279, 28 November 1903, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 26.

The Admiralty have distributed orders among twenty South Wales collieries for half a million tons oi coal.

Cardinal Logue curily refused the offer of the authorities of Trinity College, Dublin, of a site within the College for a Catholic chapel and deanery, and also professional privileges for Catholic students. A similar offer was made to the; Presbyterians. A fire occurred at a board school in East Ham. The 2000 children were rescued unhurt, owing to the coolness displayed by the headmaster and teachers. The damage is £50,000. Commissioner Stone has seated all affidavits in the Jones fortune case for transmission to Victoria.

A port mortem on Princess Eliabeth of Hessa disclosed the cause of death to be oyster poisoning. TEHERAN November 26.

Lord Guron held a durbar, which-was attended by pirate coast chiefs, at Chargar. He referred to the treaty of perpetual peace entered into in 1856, under which tranquillity and safety were established, and their continued adherence to the engagement not to admit the agent of any other Government, or alienate any territory, and ensure the maintenance of their rights, liberties, and independence. Britain's, influence, which made the Persian Gulf secure for all nations' ships, must remain supreme. MADRID, November 26.

The ladies of Madrid are resenting the Governor's orders to remove, their hats, and threaten to leave theatres in a body if the order is enforced. The German Government is expending £750jQ00 to arrest erosion in Heligoland. - ■

A protracted sensational! trial at Berlin resulted in the acquittal of the Count and Couness Kemalecki on a charge of putting forward a child, not their own, as the heir to their estates at Wrableswa, in German Poland. The public first believed the Countess guilty, especially owing to one woman swearing that her dead mother confessed to procuring the child for the Countess. Opinion favoured the Countess, after the finding of the Commission appointed to test the physical resemblance between the Countess and the child was made konwn. Sympathy was strengthened .owing to the authorities for the prosecution browbeating and arresting her witness for perjury. Counsel for the •prosecution, m an impassioned speech, urged that, unless a verdict of guilty were pronounced, a death blow would be given to trial by jury. Forces of police were held in reserve in expectation that a conviction would lead to a Polish demonstration. The charges of perjury were withdrawn. General Baron Yon Asch, Bavarian jMmistier of War, assented to a resolution, which was thereupon unanimously passed by the Chamber of Deputies, providing that officers maltreating soldiers be removed from the active list. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 26. • The Czarina's tympanic membrane has been perforated to afford relief. NEW YORK, November 2G. The Chicago strike has been settled. ; PARIS, November 26. The colonial soldier at Cherbourg who ;attiempted to wreck the Italian Sovereigns' train is insane. ,