HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12517, 12 June 1906, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Prcs>s Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright AMALGAMATION OF BREWING COMPANIES. LONDON, June 10. A scheme has been formulated for the amalgamation of tho Burton BreAvery, Thomas Salt and Company, and Samuel Allsonp and Sons. [It was reported recently that the amalgamation avos to be effected on tho basis of Allsopps acquiring tho other two concerns in consideration of immediately guaranteeing £200.000 in cash for their pressing needs, and agreeing to pay an annuity of £70,000 for forty years. At -the end of that period tho two b tidinesses andal their assets would lielong absolutely to Allsopps. The Burton Brewery adjoins tho premises of Allsbpos at Burton, and Thoma.s Salt and Co.'s brewery is not far distant, and it Avns estimated that tho Avorking of the three concerns as ons undertaking Avould result in such a large* saving that after payment of the annuity of £70,000, Allsopps would make a profit of some £40,000 a j'ear.] CRICKET. Hayward, in the second innings of Surrey A-ersus Leicester, scored 125. SWIMMING. Healey won the 120 yards swimming n*atch in the Watford baths, defeating Harvey and Faircloth, the South of England champions.

TENNIS. Ward and Little, of America, defeated Poidevin (New South Wales) and Anthony Wilding (Now Zealand) in the preliminary round for the Davis Cup at the Tennis Tournament by 3 matches to 2. TWENTY YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE.. BERLIN, Juno 10. A man named Zippol was found guilty of tho murder of Mr Reid, an English schoolmaster at Hoidelburg, andwas sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude.

THE NEW HEBRIDES. (Received June 11th, 8.55 p.m.) PARIS, June 11. I Senator Saint Germains, in an interview, said he attached little importance to the Australian suggestion of offering Mauritius as compensation for tho surrender of tho Noav Hebrides. Ho cbnsiders the acquisition of Mauritius would not justify $ho abandonment of the position Franco obtained under tho Now Hebrides protocol. THE GERMAN NAVY. BERLIN, June 11. The German naval authorities havo ordered an 18,000 ton battleship from the Genroania yard, and a 15,000 ton oruisor from tho Imperial Shipbuilding Yard. CHECKING AMERICAN MONOPOLISTS. NEW YORK, June. 11. The "New York Herald" states that President Roosevelt intends to withdraw from sale forty million acres of public lands in the Western States, containing coal, petroleum, and minerals, with a view to cheeking the Standard Oil Com-'----pany and othor monopolists.

ANGLO-SERVIAN RELATIONS. (Received Juno 11th, 10.32 p.m.) LONDON, June 11. Great Britain has approved of the nomination of Mil'licsevioh as Servian Minister in London. [Tliis indicates that Great Britain isabout to renew with Seiwia the diplomatic relations which were broken off after the assassination of King Alexander.] THE MADRID OUTRAGE. MADRID, June 11. \ Replying to an address from the ; Spanish Chamber, King Alphonso deplored the inexplioable acts of violence porpertrated by troubled spirits. These indicated the necessity for international action, to pirevcait such outrages. • DISASTER AT A DYNAMITE FACTORY. NEW YORK, June 11. A dynamite factory, at Peguea, in Pennslyvania, blew up, and thirty people were ki'fed.