BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16492, 6 March 1914, Page 8

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

By/Tslegraph—Press Association—Copyright.

ARTHUR CAYILL’S DEATH. VANCOUVER, March 4

The'leading athletic clubs on the Pacific Coast were represented at Arthur ■ Cavill’s funeral. His brothers were,unable to attend, but the funeral arrangements were carried out by college students and .former pupils of Cavill.

MURDERER’S DRAMATIC SUICIDE..

ST PETERSBURG, March 4,

The foreman of the shrapnel tube section at the Putiloff works, actuated by vengeance for a private grievance, killed Captain von Stahl, director of the section, with a crowbar, and then committed suicide by jumping into the \ electrical machinery. A DOCTOR’S CLAIM. NEW YORK, March 5.

Frank Lydston, a Chicago doctor, announced at the Medical Association Meeting r that'he had transplanted a certain gland (from•: a dead person in his own body. : If ; the operation proved a permanent’Succbssj a cure had been found for/ Bright’s-' disease and artery hardening ailments due to premature senility.

FOREIGN MEAT FOR THE ARMY. LONDON, March 5.

Owing to the exclusion of frozen mutton from the Army contracts the Hon T. Mackenzie has offered to demonstrate to the Office the suitibility of New Zealand mutton for Army ration. GERMAN TARIFF LAW. V / BERLIN, March 5.

In the Prussian Diet, Herr Sydow, Minister of Commerce and Industry, said that if other countries forced a revision of treaties, the question of a new tariff law to give Germany a weapon to negotiate new treaties to remove existing blemishes would beoome a burning one. Preliminary work was progressing to enable Germany to face the situation.