SECOND EDITION. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 25, 19 April 1912, Page 5

SECOND EDITION. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright (Received April 19, 8.5 a.m.) DESTRUCTIVE STORM AND FLOODS. NEW YORK, April 18, A tornado wrecked houses in-sev-eral Lousiaua towns, and many persons were buried in the wreckage. There was also a cloud-hurst, and' floods accompanied by much damage to crops. (Received April 19, 9 a.m.) AVIATOR SUCCUMBS. PARIS, A Belgian aviator (Verrerpit), fainting, fell 600 feet and succumbed. - EXECUTED. BEKIN, April 18. Six men were executed for the murder of Wicks (cabled March 24). FIGHTING AI 1 A GOLD .MINE. ST. PETERSBURG, April 18. There lias been serious fighting at the gold washings of the-Lena Company at Irkutsk, between soldiers and worKmen, 107 workmen being killed and 80 wounded. REVOLT, IN FEZ. TANGIER, April IS. * Several quarters of Eez have .revolted, owing to .measures to which the natives troops objected. Several Frenchmen have been, killed, but the Embassy is sale. Troops have arrived from Mequinea. (Received April 19, 12.30 p.m.)-.:-EXECUTED. \%p LONDON, April IS. . Frederick Seddon, convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Barrow, has been executed. He did not confess. SHIPPING CORPORATION. LONDON, April 18. In connection with the acquisition by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and .Elder Dempster and Co., of ordinary shares of the UnionCastle line of steamers-, the former company has been .handed Donald Currie's cheque for over £4,000,000. The cheque is said to be the second largest on record. DISTINCTION. LONDON, • April 18. Ivy Widniore won an associateship of the College of Music 'o'esides the Charlotte Holmes' exhibition. CHARGE AGAINST ARTIST. LONDON, April 18. E. J. Leed (caricaturist) was charged at Brentwood Police Court with showing pictures to little girls on Ealing Common. Many witnesses were callled re his Character. Leed bailed up Mrs Bigwood, who obtained a divorce from Percy Bigwood, late of New Zealand, <a .well-known sportsman, on the grounds of his 'bigamous marriage with Carrie Moore, the actress, in I9OS, at Sydney.