BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2490, 4 December 1901, Page 20

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, November 25. Dick Burge, a pugilist, has been arrested for complicity in the Bank of Liverpool robbery. The police have traced £100,000 to various banks, where the money was placed to the credit of bookmakers.' accounts. The judge has granted an embargo thereon. Burge is charged with uttering forged cheques for £86,000. The r->um of £36,000 was traced to his wife's banking accounts. November 26. The Right Hon. Arthur Balfour is suffering from a sharp attack of influenza. His engagements have been cancelled. A number of British commercial representatives visit Russia in January to ascertain the progress of agriculture and the prospects of the meat supply. The friends of Mr Lynch, tiie memberelect for Galway, have warned him that if he comes to England he will be arrested for treason. Melbourne papers state that Arthur Lynch, who was elected for Galway, was born at Ballarat in IG6I. He was educated

at Melbourne University, Berlin, and Pans. He practised for a short time as an engineer, but eventually became an author and journalist, and acted as war correspondent in tbe Ashanti campaign. On the outbreak of the Boer war he was appointed colonel of the Irish Brigade. No. 2. Copper: Spot, £66 7s 6d ; three months, £64 12s 6d. Tin: Spot, £116 10s; three months, £110 lls. t Pig iron, 56s 3d. A great fire destroyed or damaged a number of warehovises in Gresham street, London. Fifty-three firms are affected. The remarkable efforts of the firemen prevented a dangerous conflagration. Colonel W. S. Sparkes has hoisted the British and Egyptian flags in the Bahr-el-Gazal district of the Soudan. He was successful in inducing the local Sultan to accept British protection. November 27. An Englishman whose name is not stated purchased at auction for £200,000 the estate embracing the historic Battle Abbey, which came into the market through the death of the Duchess of Cleveland. By the King's command military honours were accorded during the removal of Count Hatzfeldt's remains to Victoria station en route for Sommerburg. The condolences and comments of the British press on the late Ambassador have had a soothing effect in Germany . The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour is improving. Colonel A. F. Montanaro, who is in command of the Southern Nigeria Battalion, will command an expedition of 1500 men who are starting from Lagos,

West Africa, to attack Acos, on the Cross- River. The object of the expedition is the suppressing of slavery and the destruction of a fetish town iv the interior. k November $8. Silver is at 2s ljd. The, fall is due to dearer money, aud New Yorkers shipping freely to Eastern markets and not buying. The committee appointed to report on the question of preservatives in food recommend that the only preservative allowed iv butter be boracic acid not exceeding 5 per cent. The King has consented to the formation of a mounted corps, with machine gun, battery, ambulance, and signallei*s, composed of colonials in London, conferring on them the title of the " King's Colonials." The colonel is "Willoughby Wallace, commander of the Cape; and R.R.Thompson, of the First Australian Horse, is adjutant. Mr Brodrick and Lord Roberts have approved. Madame Melba has engaged Arens for her tenor and Beusuade for her baritone, thus completing the troupe. She leaves, Vancouver for Australia in the middle of August*

The Ban Righ, the vessel detained on suspicion of having arms and material for making ammunition intended for the Boers, has gone to Antwerp to be fitted for the use of the Colombian rebels. Battle Abbey was purchased by Mr William Waldorf Astor, who is a naturalised British subject. The Netherlands Railway Company, South Africa, sued Mr Garrett and Mr Fisher for libel in the Court of King's Bench. The jury found that the plaintiffs were aliens, and enemies of the King. A verdict was therefore returned for the defendants. The ship Loch Vennachar, which was sunk in a collision in the Thames, has been raided. The Right Hon. Mr Balfour is decidedly better. The Governor of the Gold Coast reports that the recent mining concessions have proved to be worthless. The natives had blown beads of gold into the barren quartz. Barry Aarks, an American bootmaker, implicated in the Bank of Liverpool frauds, secured a passage from Boulogne to Folkestone. He expressed his intention of meeting the charge. When the steamer arrived only his luggage was found. It is believed that he did not embark, his object being to feign tdiat he had committed suicide. November 29. Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Glasgow, said it was only honest to tell the Irish party that it was impossible for the Liberals to repeat the experiment of 1892. No Government dependent on Irish votes coutd satisfy Irish demands.

One hundred men are engaged in London searching for Thomas Goudie, wanted for extensive Trauds in connection with the Liverpool Bank. Several newspapers announce that, notwithstanding the denials, the Pope's health is causing much anxiety, and that he is fclowly fading away. There have been phenomenal tides oa the east coast of England, and miles of coastal lands were submerged. A cyclone was followed by a tidal wave six feet high. At Sunderland extensive damage was done to the shipping. The Chamber of Deputies, at the Premier's instance, rejected by 314 to 163 a motion condemning the alleged plundering of Pekmg after the siege by the French bishop and missionaries. It is reported that the Earl of Dunraven, Sir "Edward Season, Sir Thomas Lipton, Mr Harry M'Oalmont, and others are asking the Prince of V/sles to accept the new yacht Challenge for the America Cup." November 30. While the Duke of Teek was huftmg with the Cheshire hounds his horse struck a- wire over a fence, and threw the Duke, who received slight coiicu-f-ioa of the brain and a severe contusion on. his hip. His condition causes no alarm. The Duke oi Took i^ otit of danger. Mrs Bumaby, daughter of Lord Delaniere, La<- divorced her husband on the grounds of nclnlteiy with Ltfdy Sophia Scott, daughter of the Earl 9? Cadoe^an. December 1. Gilmour, a well-known Victorian criminal, has been sentenced to pcnnl servitude for life for a murderous a^~r.;;lfc on Louisa Ivolblich a few months ago. The trial created a sensation in Paris.

George Lohmann, the cricketer, his died of consumption at Motjesfoniein, South Africa. M. Blowitz, The Times Paris correspondent, states that the Transcaucasian officials nave been in.yt rioted to compel the naturalisation of 40,000 Armenian refugees. Mr A. J. Balfour is recovering. The fever has left him, but he is still in a weak condition. Theodore Horos and Laura Horos, his wife, of the infamous order of Theocratic Unity, have been committed for trial for various offences, including swindling and procuration. Francis Kelly, a Bradford bookmaker, has been arrested for complicity in the Liverpool Bank frauds. Forged cheques .amounting to £73,000 were to him. Goudie's share is apparently trilling. December 2. Renter foreshadows one of the most violent debates in the Reichstag on the Customs Bill. PARTS, November 26. The Chamber of Deputies, by 295 to 249, authorised a Franco-Chinese loan of 265 million francs. November 28. M. Pichon, late French Minister in China, denies that ladies belonging to the Legations pillaged, though two ladies joined in looting in Peking. BERLIN, November 26. The Kaiser retired Colonel Barton Reissurtz fov not preventing the Blas-kowitz-Hildebrandt duel. November 28. General yon Gosseler, Prussian Minister of War, stated in the Reichstag that the Kaiser considered the Court of Hanover ought to have prevented the Blaskowitz duel, arising out of an officer being struck by another officer he waß taking home from a dinner. December 1. Prussian schoolmasters are said to flog ail Polish children who are unable to say their catechism and pray in German. Scverai protesting relatives have be©»

arrested, and one mother heavily sentenced. December 2. [Four million signatures have been appended to a Socialist petition against .the Customs Bill. BERNE, November 25. During a heated debate in the Roque"brune Municipality, Riviera, Orsini, a member, shot the deputy-mayor dead, and wounded several others. The assassin then escaped. VIENNA, December 1. As a sequel to the duel connected with a recent social scandal, the redoubtable Herr Wolff, leader of the Pan-Germans in- th 6 Austrian Reichsrath, has withdrawn permanently from that Chamber. ROME, November 26. .The Duke d'Abruzzi, whilst riding in an autocar at ithe rate of 40 miles an hour near Turin, collided with a milestone. He was thrown into a field, having a miraculous escape. ATHENS, November 26. The Greek students accuse Queen Olga of facilitating the translation of the Gospels for the benefit of the Panslavists. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 26. As the result of ,the recent earthquake at Erzeroum 130 deaths are reported. November 27. A buried city containing stone buildings, roads, and bridges has been dis 7 covered at the foot of ' Mount Emra,tz, near Aleppo. : AleppSj a city of Syria, stands upon a ■number of small hills, rising in an open country, and in the valleys between, the general elevation of the surface being 2000 ft above the sea. A few miles off it is encircled with rocky heights, beyond which, to the north-west and north, rise the snowy peaks of Taurus, and to the east the gleaming eands of the Syrian Desert stretch out as far as the Euphrates. The city is surrounded by walls, now decayed, and has a circuit of se/ven miles. On the 13th of August, 1822, it was destroyed by an earthquake, in which 20,000 persons perished. From this calamity it has "slowly recovered, and its trade is now considerable. The city has a Mohammedan college, Christian schools and churches, large inns, and bazaars, and is the residence of a pasha and of corisuls for most of the European nations. An abundant supply of water is brought in from a distance of eight miles by an aqueduct, which has remained uninjured from the time of

Constantine. There are great caverns outside the city, from which quantities of building stone are obtained. NEW YORK, November 26.

The American submarine boat Fulton •was submerged for 15 hours. The officers aboard assert that they could live below for a week comfortably. Dr Dowie, the founder of Zion City, ■has been assessed in Chicago for taxation pm-poses as owning £100,000. Mrs Eddy, another prominent faith healer, is jrorth seven million dollars. A San Francisco diver has located tlie steamer Rio de, Janeiro, which was .wrecked at the entrance of the Golden Gate, San Francisco Bay, in February JLstst, when a number of lives were lost. The Government are endeavouring to

recover the treasure aboard, and the

'documents belonging to Mr R. Wildman, Ahe late American Consul-general at

Hongkong, who was amongst those drowned. November 27. Twenty-four persons were killed and 25 injured through a boiler explosion at an injector factory in the city of Detroit (Michigan). November 28. The captors of Miss Stone, the American missionary in Bulgaria, have refused £1300 offered for her ransom. A West-bound immigrant train collided with an East-bound passenger train on the Seneca- Wabash railway. The former caught fire. Eighty persons were killed and 150 wounded. Italian immigrants were the chief sufferers in the Seneca railway accident. Four of the cars were telescoped. The flames prevented giving the passengers in these cars assistance. The driver misread a signal to go into a siding. December 2. Mr Carnegie has presented 100,000 dollars to be devoted to the aged Scotch poor- of New York. Two ferry boats collided at San Francisco during a fog. Twenty persons were drowned. Mr Seth Low, Mayor of New York, at the St. Andrew's Society dinner, toasted King Edward. The toast was received with remarkable enthusiasm.