BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 287, 25 July 1908, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

The French President received a cordial welcome in Denmark, while en route to Russia. The personalty of the late Mr William Lithgow, shipbuilder, of Russell and Company, Greenock, has been sworn at £1,000,000. The widow of Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist, was seriously injured while motoring in San Francisco. President Castro has expelled the Dutch Minister from Venezuela, it is supposed owing to Holland’s unsatisfactory reply to President Castro’s demand for more effectual viligance over Dutch vessels, which assist revolutionaries to escape from La Guaira.

A fire in the-frame work of two shafts at the Highouse colliery, Auchinleck, Ayrshire; imprisoned sixty men. After tremendous exertions, the fire was extinguished and the men were rescued. Boy runners belonging to the Y.M.C.A. carried a message from New York to the Mayor of Chicago, a distance of 1130 miles, in 115 hours 47 seconds. The distance was subdivided into 2000 sections, with a boy for each.

Mr Justice Kenny, at the opening of the Galway Assizes, spoke of the condition of affairs in County Galway. Except in the district of Connemara, he said, there was deplorable boycotting. Police protection should be greatly increased.

A Socialist named Nillson has confessed to the authorship of a recent bomb outrage at MaTmoe, Sweden, in which an English dock labourer was killed and seven others injured.

With a view to further retrenching, the De Beers mine at Kimberley is closing on the 31st instant. This will render 200 whites and 1200 natives idle.

Clause 1 of the Licensing Bill has been carried in committee. An amendment by Mr J. G. Talbot (Conservative) that the Licensing Bill should apply to grocers and off-licenses was defeated by 308 votes to 126. Mr Balfour doubted the sincerity of the Ministers as temperance reformers. They attacked on licenses because they wished to plunder political enemies ; they dared not attack off-licenses because they were afraid to quarrel with political friends.

In the House of Commons, Mr T. R. Buchanan, Parliamentary Under - Secretary to the India Office, in submitting the Indian Budget, admitted that there was a general spread in certain districts of unrest, suspicion, and distrust, while in some cases violent outrages had occurred. The Government was convinced that such methods were utterly repugnant to Indians and Earopeans alike. Assurances were being received constantly that all sections of the communities of India would support the stamping out of this hateful form of political disease.