BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12643, 2 November 1905, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association. —Copyright,

Received November 1, 7.23 a.m

BERLIN, October 31. The Chamber of Commerce at Mefcz has informed the manufacturers that the deficiency in railway waggons is due to the military monopolising all the rolling stock for the purpose of transporting to Alsace-Lorraine ammunition and other war material and stores. Prince yon Bulow has thanked a contributor to the " Westminster Gazette" for a repudiation of the statement that ho inspired any newspaper to write a gainst Lord Lanedowne.

HONG KONG, October 31. Admiral Train and Captain Train, commander of the American gunboat Quiros, while engaged in pheasant shooting at Ngating, accidentally peppered a Chinese woman. Hundreds of villagors surrounded and disarmed them, knocking the admiral into the mud, and rer taining the captain as a hostage. Forty American marines landed and cam 9 into collision witfh the villagers, whom the officials support. LONDON, October 31.

The British Associated Chambers of Agriculture urgently demanded the passing of the Butter Bill. NEW YORK, October 31. William Leduc, secretary of a Poultry Association, ran amok and killed Nichols the manager, and the caslrier of the State Bank at Chenoa, Illinois. He wounded Jones, the clerk, and then barricaded himself in the vault of the ba.uk, from whence 'he fired forty shots. Ho surrendered after a siege of six hours, when jets, emitting sulphur fumes, were turned into the vault.