BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2676, 28 June 1905, Page 49

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, June 19,

King Edward received the Canadian manufacturers' delegation at Windsor.

June 20.

Mr Rider Haggard's report on the Salvation Army's agricultuial industrial colonies in the United States, published incidentally, xefers to th^e New Zealand Advances to Settlers Act as a biilhantly successful measure. Canada offers to pro-

vide 240,000 acres to establish colonies onl the lines of those in the United States.

ROME, June 19.

At the trial at Messina of Captain Ercolessi, who, with his wife, was arrested in July last on a charge of selling to France plans of mobilisation and] ot the iortifications of Sicily and Calabria, Ercolessi declared that he had rejected scornfully the overtures of a foreigner named Viller, whereupon the latter was called to confront him. Viller testified that he had masqueraded, at the instance of the Government, as a foreign secret service agent, and that he had bribed Ercolessi, who gave him information of the highest importance. Ercolessi and his wife almost collapsed when confronted with. Viller.

June 20,

The Government refused the Garibaldi family permission to cremate General Garibaldi's remains and inter them on the mainland, but promised that his house andi grounds at Caprera should be declared national property. ST. PETERSBURG, June 19. An explosion at the Ivan colliery at Khaitsick, in Poland, killed 500 persons

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 19

Alarm is felt here at the Yemen insurgents, who are reported to be marching: on Mecca almost ivnopposed.

June 20,

Advices from Nakhichevan, in Transcaucasia, state that the Mussulmeu; beseiged 13 villages, while 18 others were devastated. One hundred and seventy Christians were killed and 90 wounded, and 180 Armenian shops were pillaged and! churches despoiled.

WASHINGTON, June 20

It is announced that foreign goods usedi in the construction of the Panama canal will "be admitted free.

NEW YORK, June 19.

A collision between a passenger and a coal train at Westminster (Maryland) killed 23 men, mostly railroad hands.

PEKING, June 20.

Six hundred students, representing 26 colleges, revolted at Tientsin, and issued! leaflets in support of the boycott of Ameri-> can goods. Two hundred members, with commercial guild connections in 17 pro* vinces, have signed an agreement with the same object owing to American anti-Chiness legislation.