BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1912, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[per press association—copyright, ] THE PRAM’S CREW. LONDON, June 30.—Fourteen of the crew of the Pram have arrived in London ,cn route to Norway. The. majority will rejoin Captain Amundsen for his northern dash. DEFECTIVE POWDER. PARIS, June 30. —Much anxiety is feit over the accident on the cruiser Michelet. The concensus of opinion is that defective powder caused omission of amyl and alcohol gases. Officers demand that all powders manufactured to the present year should be destroyed and an enquiry ordered. SENTENCED FOR MURDER. PARIS, June 30. —A man named Hqus-. sard has boon sentenced to, twenty years’ imprisonment for the murder of Dr. Ouilletin. The trial was of a sensational character owing to a beauty doctor, a widow, who was the cousin of the murderer, being concerned. She was brought to Tours daily in a motor and smuggled into Court. MOTOR HOG AGAIN. BERLIN, June 30.—Motorists knocked down ami killed a sergeant-major of the gendarme at Waimar. With incredible callousness they dragged him .to the road, side, placed his helmet oh his head and drove away. RELICS OP A BATTLE. OTTAWA, June 30.—The Government refused to return guns captured at Bunker's Hill, although requested by several patriotic associations in the United States to du so. The Government is prepared to give the guns if the United States will give, as a quid pro quo, some of their captures. • BRITISH REVENUE. LONDON, June 30.—The British revenue for the quarter was £38,747,000, to which the chief contributors were:— £ Customs 7,47ii,000 Excise 8,040,000 Stamps 2,416,000 FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. Received this day at 9.15 a.m. LONDON, June 30.—Three Irish cows, suffering from foot and mouth disease, were sent to the Liverpool abattoirs. Further importations from Ireland have been prohibited. OBITUARY. Received this day at 10.20 a.m. MELBOURNE, This Day.—The death occurred last night of John Ford Paterson, landscape painter. REVENUE RETURNS. ADELAIDE, This Day.—The South Australian revenue last year was £4,455,700, being an increase of £274,228.