BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 300, 25 August 1908, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

The Bangalore, a collier attached fo the American fleet, is posted missing.

Forest fires are sweeping along the Yosemite Valley, California, and threaten the giant redwoods.

The Lusitania crossed from England to New York in 96 hours 18 minutes —a record. In one day she ran 650 nautical miles.

The fund being raised in Germany to aid Count Zeppelin, whose military airship recently met with disaster, has reached £lOO,OOO.

Ideal harvesting weather prevails in South Manitoba for threshing operations, and the general quality of the crop is excellent.

The Manchester cotton-spinners have decided to reduce the wages of operatives by 5 per cent., and threaten a lock-out if the reduction is not accepted.

General Picquart, French Minister for War, travelled in a steerable balloon, the “Excelsior,” from St. Cloud to Rouen.

Mr John Gates, a Washington millionaire, is constructing a private golf course, a-racecourse, and a concrete automobile tiack at a cost of over a million sterling.

The Turkish Government has resolved to engage a British officer to reorganise the navy, and a French adviser to rehabilitate the finances. The Government has also promised an equitable settlement of the Persian frontier dispute.