British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1913, Page 2

British and Foreign

HI ELECTKIC TELKCRArH-OOPTRIOBI ] fPHR rUKSH AgaOntATlSS ? (Uo'Tived This Day, 9 a in ) , i ( i -T J |])Ay IX HOSPITAL. ■I'ln- Knipii-o ITospiljil will be op(MiL-d a( Westniiiist(M- in Oc- ! ,l!)( ' r ' '■«»" p.-i.vijiK- patients, l< ls pnniariiy inlended for overscii visilors. C'har-es will be Iroin three guineas weeklv '/"'"pared with fifteen guineiis "1 :i nursiiig home. TRUE TO NAME. ' Miss 3Jaria .Uerey, dauglitei' "f the inventor of the calieoI >i i11(j111>- process, leaves an es- !:''(' "f t'N0,l)00, of wliicli all I>"l tlo,ooo is bequeathed in fliarilies, chiefly "Wesleyan. C[:R.KJj ]]Y(!RICXET. l'redei'iek Denison, aged niiied'cii, wlki had been dumb fenten years, following on an a{l:ifk of influenza, suddenly shouled excitedly, while playing cricket at Leeds. Afterwards he stole into the woods. \vhen\_ when finally convinced (hat his voice was restored, lie mod for joy. lie did not tell iiii.vone till he wrote tu his mother.

lT r LLTX(; Tin* WINER. San Francisco, August 10. A meeting , of British residcnls resolved io petition England (o reconsider licr j'cfu.siil <V tiik<! jniH in the Panama Exhibition. KUNATICISM. Paris, August ](). A farmer named Tulien, his wife mid hvn children havo been arrested for beating (he ohlesf daughier of the family Io rlonfii io exorcise Satan. ' The gir'J fold her paivni.s tluii slio was possessed of a devil, and in a fit of volitions fanaiicism the •family p.nimnittcrl iho on'mo. i T-'TfLSOXEUR RKT FREE. ' Berlin, August 10. Jweniy-four Ihousand ])risoiiers ]iav(- Leeii i-Tanfed an amnesly, in honour of (he Kaiser's -fulnlee. PEACE ASSUMED. Jtuchurcsl, August llj. Tin , Allies havi! aliandonecl Hioir demand for eompensation Io pj-ivate persona.