BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9510, 4 September 1891, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

CBT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPE,—COPYRIGHT.] [Special to Press Association.] [Received Sept. 3. at 8 a.m.] SERIOUS FLOOD. LONDON, Sept. 2. The river Barrow, in Leinster, has overflowed its banks and submerged thousands of acres. GENERAL BOOTH. CAPETOWN, Sept 2. General Booth has sailed for Australia. THE CANADIAN SCANDALS. OTTAWA, Sept. 2. A warrant has been issued for tho arrest o£ Mr A. Seneeal, superintendent of printing, on a charge of illegal practice in connection with the Government printing and stationery department. Several witnesses have testified before the Committee as to the corruption existing in the printing bureau. [Received Sept. 3, at 8.15 p.m.] PURSUIT WITH BLOODHOUNDS. NEW YORE, Sept, 2.Robbers stopped a train at Ogdensburg and stole .£7OO. The sheriff is pursuing the offenders with bloodhounds. [Received Sept. 4, at 1.20 a.m.] SPURGEON. LONDON, Sept. 3, Tho Rev C. H. Spurgeon has passed the acute stage of his disease. RAIN PRODUCTION. , ‘ MEXICO, Sept. 3. Mexican ranch proprietors are paying tbe expenses in connection with the experiments in Texas and elsewhere for producing rain.

THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT. OTTAWA, Sept. 3. In the House of Commons to-day Sir E. J. Cartwright moved that the census returns showed Canada ought to revert to Freetrade, as Protection had been a complete failure, and had caused an exodus of the population to the United States. The Hon G. E. Foster, Minister of Finance, defended the fiscal policy of the Government, and contended that the exodus was the result of the Liberals continually decrying Canada.