BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15558, 7 March 1911, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. AN* APPOINTMENT. LONDON, March 5. Sir Edward Tennant, who has just been elevated to the peerage, has been appointed Lord High Commissioner to the Goneral Assembly of tho Church of Scotland. (The Lord High Commissioner is supposed t.o represent the King at _ the General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland. He receives £2OOO a year “ towards his expenses.' ) FRAUDULENT NOTES REDEEMED. A cablegram from Berlin referring to tho case of Herr F. Grunenthal, manager of tho Note Department of tho Imperial Printing Office, who committed suicide in 1906 after being arrested for stamping false numbers on thousands of notes, states that the Imperial Bank has since redeemed £93,000 of these fraudulent notes. DISHONEST GERMAN WAITERS. Two previously convicted German waiters were heavily sentenced at London for stealing their employers’ plate. The prisoners had organised a thieving gang of 1 voung foreign waiters. LORD SWAYTHLING’S ESTATE. The lato Lord Swaytliling’s estate lias been proved at £1,150,000. His children and grandchildren will be disinherited except for £IOO annually if thoy do not profess the Jewish faith or if they marry out of their religion.

SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER. A lubourer named F. Bedford has surrendered to the police, and has confessed to the murder of Harry Martin at the Cafe Royal, London, on December 5, 1894. SIR JOHN DOWNER. The Pope gave a private audience to Sir John and Lady Downer, of Adelaide. A FAMOUS PICTURE. LONDON, March 6. Mr Hugh Lane has sold his collection of pictures. Titian’s u Man in Red Cap” realised £30,000. It was purchased at auction in 1906 for twenty-one hundred guineas. SERIOUS RIOTS. PARIS, March 6. There have been serious conflicts at St Male between the crews of Newfoundland fishing boats and gendarmes. Tho fishermen struck for increased wages and refused to allow the boats to sail. The gendarmes intervened, and a number of fishermen and police were seriously injured. A woman was killed. THE REVOLT IN PARAGUAY. (Received March 6, 10.50 p.m.) BUENOS AYRES, March 6. Dictator Jara has promised to return the Argentine ships. The rebels aro advancing on the Paraguayan capital from all sides. PERSIA. TEHERAN, March 6. The Regent, taking the oath before tho Mcjliss, stated that his delay in returning was duo to telegraphic inquiries not satisfying him that the regency was a non-party office. Ho appealed to the nation to forget political animosities.