BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15923, 8 May 1912, Page 9

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. RIOTING IN IRELAND. LONDON, May 6. Fourteen farmers at Roscommon have been committeed for trial for rioting and assaulting a policeman in connection with a land dispute. LOST JEWELLERY. The Maharajah of.Alwar, travelling from Marseilles to Paris, lost a case of jewellery valued at . £24,000. SIR HENNIKER HEATON. 1 i v Lord Cnrzon will preside at the Empire League’s reception at the Guild Hall to Sir Henniker Heaton-, the eminent post offico reformer, on his return to London after a tour of the British colonies. EARTHQUAKE. LONDON, May 7. Seismographs in Europe indicate a great earthquake, possibly in Southern Morocco.. ■ CHINESE STEAM SHIP LINE. NEW YORK, May 7. • Sun-Yat-Sen is coming to the United States to plan a trans-Pacific steam ship lino under the Chinese flag: He hopes to develop a great trade between Canada and the United States and China. A VISIT POSTPONED. OTTAWA. May 7. Mr Foster, Minister of Commerce, will attend the Imperial Trade Commission. He has postponed his projected visit to Australia to discuss reciprocity. A MURDER TRIAL. BERLIN, May 7. There were extraordinary scenes at the trial of Trenkler, Fashionable women flocked to the court. Trenkler, who is in an advanced state of consumption, and dying, was a pitiable figure. Despite the presence of paper parcels containing the - skulls of his victims, he'narrated how he felled tho wife and was escaping, when a girl entered and clung to him until he felled her with a jemmy. He was driven to the murders by an irresistible longing for. gold and jewels. An attack of hemorrhage necessitated an adjournment.