BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15968, 29 June 1912, Page 11

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Eloctrio Telegraph—Copyright. A JEALOUS PRINCESS. LONDON, Juno 27. A message from Romo says that Princess Dapricona, a noted beauty, swallowed corrosive sublimate and was taken to Naples Hospital in a hopeless condition and suffering excruciating agony. It is understood that her motive was jealousy. BRIGAND PARDONED. King Emanuel has pardoned Bellctheri, a notorious brigand, who had boen imprisoned for forty-seven years for sixty-five crimes. ROBBED AT THE RAILWAY. A Berlin message says that an international gang robbed the Hon C. H. Wessels, ex-Commissioner of Public Works in tho Orange Free State, of £IOOO at a railway station. THE CROWN PRINCE. The German Crown Prince has published a book descriptive of his Indian tour. It has a fine sporting flavour, and is highly complimentary of British hospitality and administration. A BIG APPROPRIATION, Clarke, cashier of Messrs Proctor and Company, corn merchants, has been charged with appropriating £120,000. IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. A message from Rome says that a sentence of imprisonment for life has been passed on Baron Vincent Pateino, who on. March 2, 1911, fatally stabbed tho Countess Guilia Trigona in his rooms at a hotel in Rome. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. (Received June 28, 11.35 p.m.) CALCUTTA, June 28.

The newspaper " Bengalee," commenting on Lord Crewe's statement, that it was not intended to grant India autonomy on the lines enjoyed by tho overseas dominions, says that it ia a pitiful spectacle a Liberal leador repudiating the plain and solemn words of a despatch sanctified by tho authority ot tho King. It adds that the Bengali leaders stick to the despatch. The " Armitabazar " asks whether, in view of the abandonment of a pretext for the changes, Bengalis should not demand tho restoration of the capital.