BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13714, 3 April 1905, Page 9

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. FAMINE IN SPAIN. MADRID, March 31 '. The famine in Andalusia affects one million persons. Many have died from starvation. The bread riots in Seres •Mid Antequera are spreading. LORD KELTIN> 7 LONDON, April 1. Reuter's Agency reports that Lord Kelvin is progressing satisfactorily. THE SWAINE-GARDNER CASE. The Court decided that Carrie Swaine was not Gardner's, wife, and mulcted her in nine-tenths of the costs of the ease. AN ANARCHIST. (Received April 3, 12.48 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 1. Gesler Rousseau declared that he had spent years over a contrivance which was intended to deter the larger nations from intimidating the smaller. The Recorder declared that a penalty of five years was a wholly inadequate sentence. He postponed sentence indefinitely to inquire into Rosseau's mental condition. .'•

(Rousseau recently attempted to destroy the statue of Frederick the Great, which was presented by the Kaiser to the United States.)