HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13742, 25 May 1910, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Ajsociaticn—Bj , Electria Telegraph—Copyright.

A NEW 2EALANDERS ACCIDENT.

Allan Woodman, the young Ne-a- Zealandcr who was injured in a. collision while training for a. motor cycle race .in tho Isle of 3ian, had to have his le;c amputated, and his condition is serious. A NATIONAL COLLECTION. A collection is \o be made in all the Baptist churches in the Empire on behalf of tho Baptist Colonial Society. CANADIAN TRADE OTTAWA, May 23. Canada's total trade for April wes 10.050.000 doltars above that of April, 1009. THE UNITED STATES NAVT. NEW YORK, May 23. Tho Senate at Washington has voted tho requisite amount to provide two Dreadnoughts, notwithstanding the imnression thH the sum would b? curtailed to provid? only one. MR ASQUITH'S HOLIDAY. (Received May -_'4tn, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 24. Mr Asquith re-ioins the Admiralty yacht Enchantress to complete his holiday, which was interrupted by the death of the late King. A DUEL IN PARIS. (Received May 24th, 10.20 p.m.) PARIS, May 24. M. Israael de Leeseps, brother of Count Jaquee do Leseeps, who recently made tho Channel flight in an aeroplane, was severely wounded in the thigh in a duel with Count Poligny. They exchanged two shots at a distance of sixteen metres. RAPID TRANSIT. (Received May 24th, 10.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 24. Two trains of the Michigan Central Railroad Company carried the delegates of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers—one 224 miles from Detroit to Niagara Falls, Canada, in 3 hours 44 minutes, and the other 217 miles in 3 hours 37 minutes. TARIFF BOARD EXPENSES. (Received May 24th, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 24. The House of Representatives rejected a proposal for the appropriation of 250,000 dollars, to pay the expenses of the Tariff Board. GERMAN NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. (Received May 24th, 11:30 p.m.) BERLIN, May 24. The first German "invincible, the Yon der Tann, has been completed.