BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12588, 24 August 1901, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association —By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. LONDON, August 22. Colonel Moi.land,- the Commandant of the Northern Nigeria Forces, is proceeding with a strong force to Yola, five hundred miles from Lokoja, to punish the slave-raiding Emir of Adamawa, in Central Africa. THE TROUBLE IN COLOMBIA. Advices from Curacoa state that a thousand Government troops have left Venezuela in transports to invade Colombia, via the seaport of Riodhocha, to. support the revolution in progress dn the latter Republic. EARL RUSSELL. (Received’ LAugust 24, 12.56 a.m.) LONDON, August 23. A petition for the release of Earl Russell has been rejected. FAST STEAMERS. A syndicate which is constructing a pier at Berehaven for the accommodation of a new fast line of Atlantic steamers proposes to use oil fuel and run the vessels at the rate of twenty-four knots per hour. Dover has been offered as a port of call between Berehaven and Germany. A DISASTROUS FLOOD. (Received August 24, 12.30 a.m.) HONGKONG, August 23. A flood ‘breached both banks of the Yellow River, causing immense destruction. JAPANESE LADIES IN HAWAH. TOKIO, August 22. There is a growing indignation in Japan, owing to the insulting discrimination shown l by the Hawaiian medical inspectors against. Japanese ladies travelling in steamships. THE REIMS REVIEW, PARIS, August 22. One hundred and twenty-five thousand troops will participate in- the Reims review. THE CZAR’S VISIT TO FRANCE. PARIS, August 23. The Czar and Czaritza will spend five days in France.