BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9492, 14 August 1891, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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• [Spkcial to PBBE3 Association.] [Received August 13, at 10.20 a.ifl.] • MANIPUE. LONDON, August 12. The Times states thab-the rumoured annexation of Manipur by Great Britain is improbable. CALCUTTA, August 12.

The Manipuris sentenced to transportation will bo exiled to the Andaman group of islands in the south-east of the Bay of; .Bengal. EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. WASHINGTON, August 12. Mr Grover Cleveland, ex-Presicbnfc, ■who has been cerioasly ill, is improving. GENERAL BOOTH. , f CAPETOWN, August 12. General Booth received .an immense ovation on his arrival here. [Received August 13, at 7..30 p.m.]

At a meeting attended by five thousand persons o£ all classes and creeds, resolutions w?.re passed •warmly endorsing gonoml Booth’s immigration scheme. ' SCULLING.

WASHINGTON, AioGcsT 12. JHaolan and G’Connor -will , allow Australian oarsmen who may respond

to the challenge for the double sculling championship, .£2OO for expenses, and guarantee them, if they wish, two single sculling races for i>soo a side, CHILI. News from South America states that in July the rebel fleet appeared off Valparaiso, and threatened the town. The British and German warships in the harbour cleared for action, ■whereupon the insurgents withdrew. TEaeeived August 13, at 8 p.m.] ‘PHENOMENAL heat. NEW YORK, August 12. A hot spell has set in. The thermometer is at 97 in the shade, and many people are prostrate from the effects of the heat. ANGLICAN MISSION WOKE. LONDON. August 12. Bishop Moorhouse, of Manchester, and others are prepared to report upon the work of the Anglican mission to the South Seas. THE MARRIAGE CASE, Miss Cooper’s application to have her marriage with her cousin, into which she alleged she was terrorised, declared null and void, was refused.