HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13160, 6 July 1908, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

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LONDON, July 3. Mr Clark Kennedy's captors have boon intormed that Great Britain will not pay a penny ransom. [Moors, near Tangier, captured Mr dark Kennedy, an Englishman, and demanded oi!,i..'.' v i dollars ransom. When ihe British Government paid Raisuli Kaid Maclean's ransom it then announced that it would pay no further ransoms to secure the liberty of any person."! CRICKET. Tiio Advi.-ory Committee has passed a H-i-iilutioii inking the _Marylel>ono Cricket Club to inform the Board of Control of Australia that the oouutics are so strongly in favour of a triangular cont-u-t that it is im[>o.-*>iblo to invite any colonial eleven for 1001), except for that purpose. AQUATICS. Christ Church beat Eton in the final for the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. Alex. McCulloch, of University College. Oxford, won the final of tbe Diamond Sculls, beating A. .Stuart THE ATHAN ASIAN CREED. L0....UN, July 4. The Rev. Geo. E. Barnes, Hulsean Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, in an article published in the "Nineteenth Century,'' appeals to the bishops at Lambeth Conference to adopt the Australasian Synod's compromise for tho difficulties connected with tho Athanasian creed. CAPE POLITICS. "Tho Times" correspondent at Capetown states there is considerable discontent owing to Mr Merriman's taxation favouring the tanners at the expense of tho townfolk. THE WEATHER IN ENGLAND. Tiie thermometer registered 8-1 degrees in the shade in London on Friday, and heavy thunderstorms were experienced iv the South of England. COMMONWEALTH NAVAL AGREEMENT. In the House of Commons, Mr E. Lambert, replying to Mr W. Redmond, said the naval arrangement between Great Britain and tho Commonwealth was still unconcluued. The subject was an exceedingly complex one, and tho Australian scheme required much amplification. BRITISH PATENT ACT. BERLIN, July 3. Herr Bethmann Hollweg, German Minister of the Interior, in reply to a patentee**' petition, stated that Sir Edward Grey fd intimated that the manufacture, in Britain, of every patent is not unreservedly required under tho new Act. THE GERMAN' HIGH SEA FLEET. The German High Sea fleet is starting on the thirteenth tor a five weeks' cruiso in tho North Atlantic, under Prince Henry of Prussia. A number of Army officers aro participating in the cruise for instructional purposes. COUNT ZEPPELIN'S AIRSHIP. The Kaiser has congratulated Count Zeppelin on tho beginning of a new national era. (Count Zeppelin's aerial warship, with a dozen passengers, made a twelve hours' flight at a great height from Lake Constance to Zurich and Lucerne and back, at a speed of thirty miles an hour.] MULCTED IN DAMAGES. PARIS, .July 3. "Le Matin" has been mulcted in £2000 damages for alleging that Senator Hnmber was concerned in questionable transactions with Rochette. [Rochctte, a well-known financier and company promoter, was charged with defrauding tho public by issuing securities for which the amount of over five million pounds was subscribed.] FIREWORKS' EXPLOSION. NEW YORK, July 4. An explosion of fireworks in a novolty store at Cleveland, Ohio, killed seven and injured many. RESIGNATION OF JAPANESE CABINET. TOKIO, July 4. Tho Japanese Cabinet has resigned in connection with tho finances. It is understood their successors will follow the same general policy, including retrenchment. THE PERSIAN CRISIS. TEHERAN, July 3. Severe fighting is in progress at Tabriz. No Europeans are believed to be in danger.