BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15334, 17 June 1910, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE TERRA NOVA. LONDON, June 15. The Terra Nova lias sailed. Sin received an enthusiastic send-off. SOCIALIST OUTRAGE. A Vienna message says that Karajie a Socialist, fired five shots, all of whirl missed, at General Varesautu, Cover nor of Bosnia, and then committee: suicide. LADY MISSING. It is stated Alice Mary Thorpe who was returning to Norwich aboard tlio Miltiades, was missed during a dance on Juno 8, and all search for her proved unavailing. THE WHITEHAVEN DISASTER. Tho fund being collected on tho Rani; for tho relief of sufferers by tlio Wbite havon disaster lias reached £llOO. A COMPENSATION CASE. LONDON, June 16.

A County Court awarded tho widow of Nesbit, a colliery cashier who wa: robbed and murdered in a train, £3OO compensation, holding that the circumstances wore within the Workmen’s .Compensation Act, as tho murder war committed during Nesbit’s employment. NEWNHAM COLLEGE.

Mrs Sidgwick is retiring from the principnlsliip of Newnham College. Miss Stephen, the vice-principal, will succeed kor. , A CHARGE OF FRAUD.

NEW YORK, Juno 16

Christopher Wilson, president of tho United States Wireless Telegraph Company, and Bogart, vice-president, have been arrested at Now York on a charge of defrauding investors. Wilson was admitted to bail in a sum of 25,000d01, and Bogart in 10,000dol. Tlio company was ostensibly to combine -all wireless concerns, including tlio Marconi and Do Forest systems. Tlie shareholders wore informed that the patents were worth a million sterling, but they were really worth £4200. Twenty-eight thousand shareholders were defrauded, and tho promoters netted several million dollars. SUPPRESSION Or GAMBLING. Governor Hughes lias signed a Bill against oral betting in New York State. The maximum punishment for bookmakers is imprisonment for a year.