BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12933, 29 September 1902, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric , Telegraph—Copyright. * MOTOR EIRE ENGINES. LONDON, Sept. 26. The motor fire engine is being experimentally tried in London. THE DANES AND SHAKESPEARE. The Danes have opened a fund for the erection of a bust of Shakespeare at Elsinore. AN ASSAULT. A chisel thrown at Mr Kensit while he was leaving a meeting at Birkenhead struck him in the forehead, inflicting a severe wound. He was removed to hospital for treatment. A NEW COALFIELD. The new coalfield recently discovered on the Earl of Dudley’s Himley Estate is estimated to give a profit of nearly forty thousand pounds yearly. THE ROUMANIAN JEWS. BUCHAREST, Sept. 26. Roumania has stopped emigration passes. Many Jew's on the frontier have been recalled to their homes. RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS IN FRANCE. (Received Sept. 27, 4.41 p.m.) PARIS, Sept. 27. Major Leroy Ladurio was tried at Nantes' and cashiered for refusing to obey his colonel’s < commands to close schools. He pleaded l conscientious objections and that it was not the army’s duty to expel religious orders. VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. ROME, Sept. 27. The craters of Stromboli are active. A CORNER IN RUBBER. NEW YORK, Sept. 26. The United States Rubber Company is forming a combine to control the rubber output of Bolivia. The King of Belgium is in the scheme.