BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 16 April 1908, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association—Copyright.)

LONDON, April 14. A Blue Book shows that, after vainly urging that Chinese offenders should be tried by the same methods as natives, Lord! Elgin, in November, assented to an Act for the temporary 'renewal of the indentured labour laws, relying upon, the Transvaal to remove everything of an objectionable nature as soon as it could. .

Owing to the absence of direct telephones and .th© slowness of' telegrams, bets were accepted in Vienna 2£ =hours after English races had been run, a group of sharpers utilising the telephones between London, Paris, and Berlin, and thence to Vienna. They swindled a leading bookmaker of many thousands of pounds.

CABUL, April 14. M. Zalakoff. a Russian, disgnissd as a mullah/has been arrested near Herat 'h possession of maps and1 jottings of the route to Herat, and of the food and water supplies. Zalakoff has been imprisoned at Cabul.

MADRID, April 14. On ■ charges .of causing a number of ratal explosions in Barcelona—after failing to blackmail the authorities and the banks on a pretence, of being able to track the Anarchists—Juan Rull Hennanegildo Rull, and Maria Querajto have been sentenced to death. Four others received' sentences ranging from 'four months to 24 years' imprisonment in chains.

BERLIN, April 14. The famo'Uiji old Garrison Church of Berlin has been burned. Of many flags .capture! in the FrancorPrussian War of 1879, which were hanging in the nave, only one wias saved.

. PEKIN. April 14. t loods m, the Hankiang River drowned 2,000 Chinese, and destroyed 700 junks.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 14. The muyder of Patocki was the outcome of the racial feud; between tho Poles and the Ruthenians.