BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1433, 6 March 1911, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS.

Br ELEOTBIO TELEGBAPH —OOPYBIOHT. (PEE PEEBS ASSOCIATION.) (Received March 6, 8.10 a.m.) CHOLERA IN HONOLULU. New York, March 5. It is reported that the cholera outbreak in Honolulu is serious. Help is sought ii'om the Federal Government. Eighteen cases and fifteen deaths have so far been reported. CONCERNING ALASKA. Washington, March 6., ' A committee of Congress, which has been appointed to investigate into the political and economic condition of Alaska-, is empowered to recommend legislation in regard to the deer session to Congress.

ROBBERY AND MURDER. A robber killed a policeman atAlexandra, Indiana, when the former was discovered holding up a jewellery store. The robber fled and barricaded himself in a vacant house. 'A posse of police surrounded the house and a nght is imminent. An accomplice of the robber was arrested. The mob endeavoured to storm the gaol and lynch the prisoner, but were dispersed. SIR EDWAitD TENNANT. London, March 5. Sir Edward Tennant, who has just been created a peer, has been appointed Lord High Ooniniissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. FRENCH POLITICS. Paris, March 5. Li the debates referring to the political situation, M. Coombes, Honorary President, said that M. Jaures, Sociaiist leader, has acted as impresario to the Government.

BRITISH POLITICS. London, March 5. The Earl of Crewe, Lord of the Privy Seal, is progressing as favourably as can be expected. He fainted owing to gastric trouble, due to overwork, the concussion being a secondary trouble. Other politicians are also feeling the strain of three elections and four autumn sessions in five years. Lord Morley, Lord President of the Indian Office, will represent the Indian Office and lead the House of Lords during Earl Crewe's illness. MURDER WILL OUT. • A labourer named F. Bedford has surrendered himseir to the police. He confessed to the murder of Harry Martin, at the Cafe Royal, in London, on December 5, 1894. THIEVING WAITERS. Two previously convicted German waiters heavy sentences of imprisonment at London for stealing their employers' plate. The prisoners had organised a thieving gang oi young foreign waiters. JEWS OR NO FORTUNE. The estate of .uord Montagu Swaythling, a Jewish banker, has been proved at £1,150,000. His children and grandchildren will he disinnerited except for £100 each annually if they do mot profess the Jewish or it they marry out of their relig>i. CHINESE MUTINY QUELLED.

The- steamer Baunockburn, bound hem Antwerp to San Francu>oo, has been beached at Dover. After <?. coliis. en, the Chinese crew, who were soizvi with panic, mutinied. The mate ot tlie vessel drew his revolver, anl, arter wounding two of the Chinese, succeeded in quelling the insurrection. A REPENTENT SWINDLER. Berlin, March 5. Herr Grunenthal, manager of the note department of the imperial printing office, who attempted to commit suicide in 1906, after being arrested for stamping false numbers on thousands of notes of the Imperial Bank, has since redeemed 93,000 of the fraudulent notes. THE FRENCH LEGION. Paris, March 5. German newspapers bitter 1 resent the enrolment of German minors in the French Foreign Legion. They declare that until 1910 those -under 18 years of age who were enrolled were released upon Germany's demand, a concession which t-hey now say has been withdrawn.