BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 285, 21 July 1908, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

At St. Christophe, France, thirteen persons were kileld bj . lightning. The by-election for Pembroke- j shire resulted in the return of Mr Roach, a Liberal. Mr Asquith’s resolution to closure the Licensing Bill was carried by 209 votes to 89. Madame Lemoine has obtained a divorce from her husband, of diamond-” making ” notoriety. The Duke of Devonshire’s net personalty has been declared for probate at £1,095,132. The Kolapore Cup match, fired at Bisley, resulted -Motherland, 762 ; Canada, 758 ; Guernsey, 754. ** Krupps have acquired the patent rights of Colonel Urge’s new Swedish air-torpedo. Experts declare the torpedo an epoch-making invention. At Boston, U.S.A., a box of dynamite caps exploded while being opened by a Customs officer who was, with two others, killed.

The hearing of the perjury charge against Prince Eulenberg has been postponed owing to his weak health. It is generally believed the case will be allowed to drop.

General Ohman Heyda was assassinated in the barracks at Monastic by an officer concerned in the Young Turkish movement.

The Vulcan Engine Building Company, Stettin, locked out 8000 employees for refusing to comply with a request to put in one and a-half hours of over--time.

A claim of signalmen of the Great Western Railway to have a Conciliation Board appointed to consider wages, etc., has been upheld by the Master of the Rolls.

A Wesleyan Conference has opened at York. The president urged the importance of a worldwide feder'atibn. The Licensing Bill, he said, met with the approval of Wesley ans, and it was hoped the education difficulty would be settled.

Commander Peary, the wellknown Arctic explorer, with four expeditions already to his credit, has sailed in the ship Roosevelt from Sydney, Cape Breton, for the Arctic. He declares he will spend three years in the attempt to reach the North Pole ■

Several of the English counties are "said to be recognising that their attitude towards Australia over the triangular cricket tests was based on mistaken premises. The feeling is general now that if a single team visits England next year it should be Australian.

Fourteen thousand mill operatives at Calcutta struck work. Considerable rioting and window smashing,|followed, and some assaults on Europeans, necessitating the calling out of the military. Twelve thousand of the strikers then resumed work. Artillery are still patrolling the disturbed area.

Mr Tennant, M.P., speaking at the Liberal Colonial Club, hoped that under the wise guidance of the Earl of Crewe and Colonel Seely the Colonial Office would give reality and permanency to the plan foi a secretariat. He added that the Liberal Colonial Club’s object was to foster and stimulate a sympathetic, intelligent attitude on colonial questions.

Fighting still continues at Tabriz, and the leader of the Constitutionalists has appealed to Britain for aid. The elders agreed upon concerted action against the Government forces, which subsequently, finding themselves strongly opposed, silently melted away. Crowds indulged in plundering the residences of rich supporters of the Shah,