BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13108, 23 April 1903, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright THE FAMINE IN SWEDEN. LONDON, April 21. Reassuring advices have been received with regard to the relief of the famine in Sweden.

A NEW EXCHANGE. (Received April 22, 11.24 p.m.) LONDON, April 22.

The Lord Mayor opened the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping! Exchange at St Mary Axe. It is the handsomest and completed in the world, costing half a million. BANKRUPTCY. Sir William Wasteneys, barrister of New Zealand, has been declared bankrupt on his wife's petition. The liabilities are stated at £SOOO, and there are no assets. In the course of examination, he attributed his failure to his wife's litigation. UTILISATION OF BY-PRODUCTS.

The Right Hon R. W. Han'oury, speaking on the agricultural vote, said that ow-ing-to the profitable use made of offal at Chicago, it paid Americans better to send dead meat than live cattle to Britain. A GERMAN RAILWAY SYNDICATE. v_ BERLIN, April 22.

The German Asiatic Railway Company has been incorporated, with a capital of half a million sterling, nominally to construct Chinese State railways. AN OBSERVATORY TRUST. NEW YORK, April 21. Professor Pickering, of Harvard Observatory, proposes that a trust, representing all the observatories in the world, should be formed, so that the observatories could be worked without any waste, and money and men provided where needed. AN OVERDUE VESSEL. The French ship Duconedic, which sailed from San Francisco for Sydney with a cargo of wheat, on Dec. 24, has been reinsured at eighty-seven guineas per cent. SUPPRESSION OF BETTING. (Received April 22, 11.13 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 22. Albert Adams, a wealthy lottery organiser, nicknamed the " Policy King of New York," has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for keeping a betting establishment. A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. ST/ PETERSBURG, April 22. The Russian Geographical Society is sending a scientific expedition to Mesopotamia.