BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1910, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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FAMOUS CORRESPONDENCE. LONDON, April 26.—William Blatway’s correspondence was sold by auction at Sotheby’s for £8650, including Penn’s draft of the Pennsylvania grant.

WIRELESS TELEGRAMS. LONDON, April 26—No less than 34,496 Trans-Atlantic wireless telegrams have been exchanged in nine months. One hundred and sixteen British vessels are licensed to receive messages.

THE IMPERIAL PIONEERS. LONDON, April 26.—The Daily News, in referring to the Imperial Pioneers, says that it has no objection to Colonials entering the Tory service, but. it lias all the objection in the world tp those pretending to be authorised ambassadors of the Empire, when they are merely their own obscure selves.

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. PARIS, April 26.—The French election discredited the anti-Republican and revolutionary elements and strengthened the position of the proportional representation .party. FUNDS FOR .MISSION WORK. NEW YORK, April 26.—The Protestant Churches in the I idled States in a week’s special appeal for funds for Home and Foreign missions aggregated six million dollars. SPURIOUS CHINA. Received this day at 9.50 a.in, LONDON, April 26. —The jury found that Christie, Mason and Woods, the well-known firm of auctioneers, wore guilty of negligence in the preparation lof a sale catalogue, whereby Charles Dickens was sold some alleged antique China, which was spurious. Plaintiffs had, however, failed to prove any monetary loss ami judgment was deferred. THE COTTON FRAUDS. Received this day at 8.50 a.m. LONDON, April 26. The Daily .Mail’s New York corresi>omlent. states that Liverpool's losses through the cotinn forgeries ate estimated at £1,000,000. Receivers for Knight and Yancey obtained an injunction pieventing a shipment of 4200 bales at Havre, under bills of lading issued- by the Knight firm. THE KING. LONDON. April 26. King Edu.n l arrives in London to-morrow. Ho looks younger and fresher. THE LICENSING DUTIES. LONDON, April 26. King Samm 1 has announced that the license duties, usually levied in Octeljer. will be spread over several months.

A NATH >\AI. STA'I I E. Received fliis dav at. 10.50 ;i.m. I.OX POX, \pril26 . —Mr Mackciinl, ,'iu Australian sculptor, has 0«s-ii commissioned (u execute ;i 11 :it i<•)i;tl sf :ii u»■ "f Gainsborough Mr erection :it Sud bury. AN A .ME HI CAN .i( DOES!!!!’. NEW YOU K. Ajiril 2f). .Mr I £ null'-s (inventor of New York State, succeeds Justice Brewer in the Supremo Court uftor qualifying for the now poMtieM in (ho October Irrin. I ioTernor 1 1 n _rlu-s. as a Justice. is o\ pected to hold Iho balanco of power in (Jto Courts' decisions in the actions against the Trusts. \ CANA 01 AN COM HA XV. oTT\\V\. Apiil 26.- Tho Canadian Colliers Company. Ltd., with a capital of four million pounds, has boon incur p..rated at Ottawa. 1 t t. presents tho .'dackoii/.io and Mason tutor, sts. and acquires tho Dnnsinuir collicnos at \’aiuvan or. ACSTR \ld AX A 11TI STfs IX 1 .ON POX. LOXDO.X. April 26.- Tho loading Australian .artists in London arc well represented at the Academy exhddti.ni. AM Ell IC \ X " HU 1 M MI r ill"lJ.Y WASHINGTON. April 26.- I h Senate of Judicial Inquiry sit I ini' at Wasliiiniton, resolved to favour a thorough investigation into tin- third d. - give methods of extorting confessions from prisoners, and the employments of persons o, watch the movements of jurors. Mi. Mill M 1 IX \\ BAX lA. Received this dav at 9 a. m. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 26. Thr<v thousand Alhani.ans sei/,. d Kattchanik Pass and held up a train on the Csknb i-Vrisovieh railway, capturing supplies and disarming s.nne soldiers. The train was then allowed to proceed to Prishtina, with a warning that no military convoys le r.■after would ho permit I' d. Thltly-four thousand Alhani.ans Inr.e now covered in the rising. I,tiler on. tin- Turkish troops rout. .1 the Albanian's at. Slimlia. XAVAI, MANO El VUES.

LONDON, April 26. - During the battleship manoeuvres m the North Sea, the Blues," under the I’rince of Haitenlmrg vangnished (he “l!<-ds” under \dmiral May by capturing tt battleship, some eruisers and a d>--troyci. The Eiilh of Forth bridge and Hosvth Naval lease were destroy, |.