BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14428, 19 July 1907, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. “ OUIDA.” LONDON, July 17. Router reports that “ Ouida ” is able to leave her bed. She is annoyed at the exaggerated reports regarding her health and position. ACROSS THE DESERT. PARIS, July 17. Captain. Arnaud, of the French Colonial Infantry, travelled from Algiers to Kotonu in Dahomey, across the Sahara, a distance of 8100 miles, in on© hundred and twenty-seven days. A NEW RIFLE. BERLIN, July 17. The German School of Musketry is experimenting with a magazine rifle containing fifty-eight cartridges. The results have proved successful, but the weight of the weapon is excessive. THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY. ST PETERSBURG, July 18. The Council of Ministers has decided to ask the Duma to sanction the duplication of the Siberian Railway. THE UNITED STATES TARIFF. WASHINGTON, July 18. Senator Hopkins, after interviewing President Roosevelt, announced that the Republican leaders had decided against any revisions of the tariff until after the Presidential election.