BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14416, 5 July 1907, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Pre»s Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. HONOURS. LONDON, July 3. King Edward has conferred the Order of merit on. Sir Joseph Dalton 'Hooker, the eminent botanist. A NARROW ESCAPE. ;'.'/ While the Bishop of London was motoring near Newbury a tree struck by lightning fell on the road in front of tho car, and the Bishop narrowly escaped. RUSSIAN HORSE THIEVES., ST PETERSBURG, July 3. Peasants at Cherniatin, in the Vblkynia district, captured and horribly tortured for a whole day fifteen horse thieves, killing one and crippling and mutilating the* rest. A GERMAN LIBEL CASE. BERLIN, July 3. .The Socialist newsjwper " Muen-. cheur Post !I has been fined £25, with heavy costs, for libelling Dr Karl Peters. Tho paper revived the stories of tho atrocities attributed to Peters in Gorman East Africa in 1891, calling him a cowardly murderer. SOCIALIST TRIUMPHS IN ROME. ROME, July 3. Advanced Liberals, all of the Socialist ticket, oairried twenty-five of thirty vacancies at the municipal elections in Rome. The result was a great surprise to the Government and the Moderates. It is attributed to ' a wave of anticlericalism and the cost of living in Rome.