BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2425, 5 September 1900, Page 13

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON. August 21. The British punitive column have Jestroyed thirty Ashanti villages at Lake Busumachi. The British Admiralty has oidsred 100,000 tons of Cardiff .steam coal at the highosl prices. August 28! The plague has broken out in the tenement houses in South Glasgow. Several British columns are clearing the country and converging on Kumassi, which will be the future headquarters. The ex-Australian racehorse Maluma, the property of Mr " Jersey," Is dead. The Telegraph Construction Company are the lowest tenderers for the construction of the Pacific - cable at a cost of £1,886,000. The work is -.to be completed in 18 months. > August 30. • Several deaths in Glasgow are attributed to plague infection derived from the docks. Forty persons have been isolated. The late Lord Locfo left £103,294. Albert Trott has taken his 200 th wicket in first class cricket this season. The American visible supply of wheat is

65,195,000 bushels. A cargo of Australian wheat sold at 31s 3d. August 31. ' - The plague "in Glasgow 1 is bubonic. Twelve suspicious cases ' are under observation. The sanitary staff has been doubled., The woo] crisis at Roubaix and Tourcoiiig, France, continues. Eight large houses -have liquidated. It is expected the industry ,will not generally suffer acutely, the failures being negotiants and speculators, not manufacturers. Go.?s, chief clerk of the Paris branch of the Bank of London, has made a full confession of his guilt in connection with the robbery of £60,000 from the bank. Sir John Lawes, the Avell-known authojity on agricultural matters, is dead; aged 86 years. Playing against Kent, Ranjitsinhji scored 220 runs in an innings, making his .eleventh century for tie season. This is a record in the history of cricket. Playing against Derbyshire, Abel scored 193 runs, making his eleventh century this season The Taff Vale Colliery strike, in South Wales, has terminated, the demands of the men being conceded. The importation of outside labour has been discontinued. September 3. The Queen has left Windsor and gone to Balmoral. PARIS, August 29. Three big wool firms at Turcoing, in the. North -of France, have suspended payment, with liabilities amounting^ to 12,000,1300 francs. " , , "\ August 30l\ . -French military authorities, experimenting at Calais with the Creusot gun, obtained a range of 20 miles. September 1.; The total failures in Roubaix number 17, with liabilities of upwards of 25 million francs. The market has recovered 50 centimes. September 3. M. Foureau, the French explorer, who last year led an expedition from Algeria to Lake Tchad, has arrived at Marseilles. He reports that the country in the immediate vicinity of Lake Tchad is a desert. BERLIN, ' September 1. The Emperor and President M'Kinley exchanged greetings on the occasion of the opening of the cable from 'New York to Emden (in Prussia). ST. PETERSBURG, August 27. Russia is negotiating for the purchase of three million tons of American coal. BUCHAREST, August 28. The Roumanian Government, in a sharp, note, accuses Bulgaria of shielding murderers employed by Macedonian politicians. COPENHAGEN, August 31. Privy Councillor Witte, Russian Minister of Finance, is now at Copenhagen trying to negotiate a loan of 20 million pounds sterling with the Paris financiers.