BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 May 1906, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

. [BY ELECTEIC TELEGRAPH—COPYBIGHT ) * [m PSXS3 ASSOCIATION.] . ' THE SIMPLON TUNNEL. ROME, 21.—The King of Italy and M. Forrer, President of Switzerland, performed the opening ceremony of tho Simplon tunnel. FRENCH MICTIONS. PARIS, May 21.—The French elections at Paris have returned Radical and Socialist members. BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. LONDON, May 21.—The Times says it is an entire misapprehension to suppose that the Anglo-Russian agreement has reached any concrete shape, though it is doubtless desirable. ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENT. LONDON, May 20.—The Primate of New Zealand has been elected to the Honorary Fellowship of the Magdalen College at Oxford. CHARITABLE BEQUEST. LONDON, May 20.—Mr Edward Steinkoff, the proprietor of the mineral water known as Appoinaris, has left £1.247.000, and has empowered his daughter to bequeath £1,000,000 (o charities. DARING BANK ROBBERY. LONDON. May 21.—A daring burglary has been committed at the West End'branch of the London and County Bank. Nine hundred and fifty sovereigns have been stolen, though the robbers did not touch the main safe. j GERMAN "TAXATION. ! BERLIN, May 21.—The German Reichstag has imposed £9,000,000 instead which amount the Government desired to realise. Tho burden chiefly falls on tho lower, middle and working classes, and (lie taxes are already exciting strong protest. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHV. LONDON, May 21.—At Britain's instance, an international conference which was to have been hold with regard to wireless telegraphy, has been • postponed till October 10th. '•A COLOSSAL YOUTH." LONDON. May 21.—Charles Watts. a boy of fifteen, residing at Wood- , church, Kent, is six 'feet in height, and weighs twenty-live stone. He is a good scholar and an active cricketer.