BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15715, 7 September 1911, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRIGANDAGE IN ASIATIC . TURKEY. LONDON, September 5. A notorious Anatolian brigand, named Tchakerdjali, in the neighbourhood of Mirmarico, assassinated several peasants whom lie suspected of divulging his movements. The Government has sent a Circassian officer, with a hundred volunteers, to kill or capture the brigand. HOUSING 'THE PEOPLE. Sir Crichton Browne, at tho Sanitary Inspectors’ Conference, questioned whether tho largo expenditure on sanatoria under the National Insurance Bill might not be moro profitably employed in improving the housing of tho people, as prevention was more important than cure. MOUNT PAVLOFF ACTIAJE. Mount Pavloff, in tho Aleutian Islands, is active. Smoke was observed arising from the crater, and fine dust fell on passing ships. BISHOPRIC OF BIRMINGHAM. Tho “Standard” states that the Rev Hearno Russell Wakefield, of Norwich, will succeed Bishop Goro in tho sec of Birmingham. LORD GLADSTONE. Lord Gladstono, Governor-General of South Africa, was cordially welcomed at Buluwayo. THEFT OF JEAVELLERY. LONDON, September 7. A jeweller’s traveller momentarily quitted a brougham in tho north of London. Someone mounted it and drove away and abstracted jewelleryworth .-S2OCO. No clue Ims been found.