BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 31

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, June 13. The submarine AB, which recently exploded and sank, has been raised. Mr B. R. Wise, ILC., in a letter to The Times, directs attention to the evidence submitted by professors of economy to the Australian Tariff Commission respecting the unfair efforts of the International Harvester Trust to crush the Australian makers of harvesters. June 14. The death is announced of Nathaniel Rothschild, Vienna, brother of the head of the local branch of the Rothschild house. A serious difficulty has arisen in the administration of primary education in Ireland, the Roman Catholic authorities protesting against the National Board's desire to check the multiplication of small schools by rendering boys under eight ineligible for enrolment in a boys' school where no woman teacher is employed. Archbishop Logue advises determined opposition, even if the education of the country is brought to a deadlock. Mr Augustine Roche (Nationalist) has been elected unopposed for Cork. June 15. The Duchess of Westminster's jewel*, recently stolen, were unearthed in a field at Cambridge. A former night watchman at Grosvenor House and a tailor at Cambridge have been arrested. Alfred Fossick, solicitor, Maidenhead, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for appropriating' £12,000, the proceeds of a lady's estate. Tippoe Tib, a notorious Congo slave trader, died at Zanzibar. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's -express mail stsainer Isis collided with and sank the Turkish steamer Leonah off Brindisi. Fourteen Turks were drowned. The Lords- Committee on the Shops- Bill reports that Sunday trading is increasing, though the shopkeepers themselves and t'ae municipalities would welcome restraint. The committee proposes to give the local authorities, with the Government's consent, power to exempt within their own areas, if they consider that the act will press with exceptional severity on the general body of traders. From the raised submarine A 8 15 bodies were recovered. Tliey showed the effects of the violent explosion. There are indications that an accident 6r a mistake in manipulating the levers caused submarine A 8 to submerge, leading to disaster. The British Admiralty has relinquished the system of fixed or ground mines. June 16. James Manseigh, past president of the Institute of Civil Engineers. June 17. Two hundred and eighty members of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association hare arrived in England on a three weeks' visit to study industries and commerce and the relations of trade with Canada. June 18. Kubelik opens his Australian tour in Melbourne on July 19, 1906. The battleship Hibernia was launched at Devonport, and the first class cruiser Achilles at Elswick. June 19. The directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company offer £100,000 of 4 per cent, debentures at a minimum of 94£. The death is announced of Maxima Gomez, the liberator of Cuba. News has been received of fighting in Southern Nigeria. The King of Owete ambushed the District Commissioner's escort near Afikpo; killing four. When reinforced the British captured Owete and the King, whose tribes lost heavily. The Ornithological Congress sitting at the Imperial Institute, at the instance of Walter Rothschild, resolved to telegraph to the Governments of the Commonwealth and New Zealand iirging legislation to prevent the destruction of penguins at the islands under their control. PARIS, June 13. The Minister of Works proposes to tunnel Mont Blanc, and so provide a direct connection with the Swiss-Italian railways, in order to counterbalance the Simplon tunnel competition. June 14. Apropos of rumours of the unpreparedness of the French army to meet the possible consequences of a divergence of French and German views regarding Morocco, Colonel Picquart states that the French armament is excellent, the forttresses redoubtable, and the railway concentration good. The weakness of the French military system lies not in the soldiers, but in the command. There is a great lack of homogeneity, owing to political and religious dissensions. June 16. The French police assert that Aveno, the Barcelona Anarchist, was the real perpetrator of the bomb outrage against King Alphonso during the King's visit to Paris. BERLIN, June 19. News has been received from German West Africa that the Hottentots under Abraham Morris captured Warmbad and Kalkfontein, releasing prisoners and seizing much ammunition and many cattle. The German officers escaped. VIENNA. June 18. The late Mr Nathaniel Rothschild be queathed £880,000 to charities, especially

ior the relief of the sick and suffering of Vienna. Fuerst Henckel Downemnarck, a Silesian coal magnate, has placed at the Kaiser's disposal half a million sterling, the interest on which is to be paid to officers for special service or increased pay. ST. PETERSBURG, June 16." There is cholera, at Tomsk, and the town is in a terribly insanitary condition. ATHENS, June 14. Gherikaris, a professional gambler, stabbed M. De Lyannis, the Premier of Greece, at the entrance to the Chamber of Deputies. The man was arrested. His motive was revenge because of the closing of his gambling houses. M. De Lyannis succumbed to his injuries. Gherikaris, who was foimerly sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for wife murder, kissed M. De Lyannis's hand, and then stabbed him in the stomach. There was a great demonstration of grief in Athens, 20,000 following the corpse from the Premier's residence. June 16. M. De L/yannis, the Premier, -who was assassinated, died penniless. The Chamber of Deputies voted a pension to the two nieces dependent upon him. A State funeral was accorded to the deceased. BUDA-PESTH, June 13. Baron Fejevary's appointment as Premier of Hungary is interpreted to mean that the Emperor Joseph proposed to govern without a parliamentary majority. Norway's recent example has made a deep impression~throughout Hungary. CON STANTINOPLE," June 14. A storm caused great havoc at Stanibonl. Several houses collapsed. General Vasfi Pasha was killed. WASHINGTON, June 14. In accepting the trusteeship of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of .New York, Mi- Giov-er Cleveland (exPresident of the "United States) said that he believes that what has overtaken the Equitable may happen to other insurance companies and fiduciary organisations while the American tolerate lax ideas of trust responsibilities. June 15. Tiie United States navy is already placing one-pounders in the fighting tops with range-finders. June 17. Mr John Hay is now in good health, and will shortly resume his duties as Secretary of State. June 19. President Roosevelt has appointed a committee of five officials to recommend a scheme for the economical and efficient conduct of the Executive Government. NEW YORK, June 13. The New York-Chicago express covered 912 miles in 17h 37min, including stops. The highest speed was three miles in 2min B£sec. June 14. Advice has been received that 20 persons were drowned in floods at Santa Fe. In Entrerios and Chaeo 500 head of cattle perished. The New York tube was flooded. Many passengers waded to the stations through 4ft of water. June 17. The Allan line turbine steamer Virginian made the voyage from Moville, Ireland, to Ramouski, via Cape Race, in 6 days 1| hour — a record for the route. CAPETOWN, June 17. Advices from Johannesburg state that the suggestion for the formation of a Central "-Appeal Court for the whole of South Africa has been abandoned. PEKING, June 15. Germany is beginning to fortify Kiaochau. o>