BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 304, 5 September 1908, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

0 The Rev. James Fleming, 8.D., Residentiary Canon and Precentor of New York, is dead. Th.y War Office, Washington, has ordered from the Libby Company, Chicago,! ’ 5,000,0001 b of corned meat, a record order. The “Standard’s’ Lucknow correspondent states that Nasruli Khan, a convert, was murdered near Chaman for refusing to abjure Christianity. The British authorities demand the surrender of the murderers. The “Vossiche Zeiting” declares that the German Minister at Pekin has commissioned the Legation doctor to convey to the Dalai Lama of Thibet the Kaiser’s portrait. Reuter’s Pekin correspondent says that an edict has been issued outlining the constituting and providing for the ultimate summons of Parliament. The Countess of Annesley’s jewels, worth a thousand pounds, were stolen from her bedroom at the Hotel Metropole, Dublin. A fire broke out in No. 3 hold of the steamer Roon, from Sydney, while lying at Colombo. The fire was quickly extinguished. The damaged cargo comprised sheep-skins, copra and plumbago. The sailer Amazon, laden with coal, was wrecked at Swansea Bay. Twenty out of a crew of twentveight were drowned. Their desperate efforts to save themselves were watched by thousands ashore who were unable to give any help. The British income tax returns for 1906-7 show that the gross total of incomes subject to the tax is £943,000,000. Tax was paid on £640,000,000. There were twenty incomes over £50,000 a year, and 241 between £lO,OOO and £50,000. Storms have been responsible for many wrecks on the English coast. The excurtion steamer Queen, with 160 passengers, broke her steering gear, and grounded on a sandbank at Selsey Bill on the Sussex coast. Eight women and three children were rescued at midnight by lifeboatmen under exciting circumstances, and the male passengers were taken off next morning. The London Standard ” discussing the ovations accorded Admiral Sperry and the American fleet, says that Australia’s case in regard to defensive measures is the case of all the self-governing States of the Empire. Australia intends to build and equip her own squadron, and where she leads the rest of the oversea States will probably follow. The “ Pall Mall Gazette’s ” Washington correspondent says American newspapers consider the demonstrations denote a popular conviction in Australasia that the American naval power would in an emergency become a barrier against the extension of Japanese rule in the Pacific.