BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13889, 25 October 1905, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BARQUE ASHORE. LONDON/ October 22. Advice has been received that the Darquo Alliance, from Newcastle, is ashore at Callao. r (The Alliance left Newcastle on August 27 with a cargo of 1500 tons of coal for Callao. She was an .iron barque of 993 tons gross and 977 tons net register, and was 202 ft long, 34ft in beam and 20.6 ft in depth oMiold. She was built at Liverpool in 1885, and was commanded by Captain James). . A NEW CITY. • LONDON, October 23. Cardiff has been created a city, with a Lord Mayor. FROST. ... • Fourteen degrees of frost wore recorded in London last night. ' A MEMORIAL. King Edward yesterday unveiled a memorial to the Duke of Cambridge at the Guards’ Chapel, Wellington Bar-. racks. - THE GERMAN NAVY. The “Daily Mail” states that Germany, in 1906, will begin the construotion of forty destroyers. THE BRITISH FLEETS. It is officially announced that ViceAdmiral Sir Arthur Moore, second incommand of the Channel fleet, will succeed Vice-Admiral Sir Gerard Noel in command of the China squadron, and that Vioe-Adnural the Hon A. Curzon-Howe, second in command of the China squadron, /will succeed Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Moore. THE ROYAL TOUR. LONDON, October 24. Lord Charles Beresford, with twentyfive warships, met and escorted the Renown southwards from the Straits of Messina. ■ THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. LONDON, October 24. The Pyramus and Pioneer have resumed their voyage to Australia. A COURSE RECORDER. A course and distance recorder, the invention of Captain Forbes, of Mel- , bourne, has been successfully tested oh a 25 knot destroyer. The next test will be aboard a battleship. “AESTHETICALLY ETHICAL” JOURNALISTS. BERLIN, October 23. Herr Bebel and the extremists having scored a victory and the control of the Socialist party, the entire staff of the Socialist paper, “ Vorwarts,” resigned. They wore accused of being too aesthetically ethical, and prone to compromisb. •AN AFRICAN RAILWAY. ALEXANDRIA, October 23. The railway from Atbara to Portsmudan, near Suakim, has been completed. AMERICAN ENERGY. NEW YORK, October 23. Mr J. H. Choate, the United States ex-Ambassador to Great Britain, speaking at the Lotos Club, warned the Americans that they were going at too tremendous a pace, and that it would bo better to cultivate the English repose. SIR WILFRID LAURIER. OTTAWA, October 22. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Dominion Premier, announoed that he does not intend to retire until the" completion of the National Transcontinental Railway in four or six years. FIGHTING IN CELEBES. SINGAPORE, October *22. In the recent fighting at the Celebes the natives lost fifty killed, and the Dutch seven. SUNK BY A MINE. SHANGHAI, October 23. A mine off Shantung sank the Sanchimaru, a Japanese transport of 2400 tons. Three persons were drowned.