BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 51

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, June 20

Lieutenant Morly, an Adelaide Rhodes scholar, was flying at Gosport, when his machine collapsed, and he fell 5001't. He was seriously injured, and taken to hospital. Mrs Astor is marrying Mr W. Dick, a millionaire. She is renouncing the fortune left by her late husband, a multi-million-aire, who lost his life iu the Titanic disaster. June 21. The fall in the price of copper is due to pressure to sell, but the actual transactions recorded are small. There were 15,000 girls, dressed in white, selling roses on Queen Alexandra Day in the chief West End thoroughfares. They included Australian and New Zealand ladies. • June 23. The appeal in the case of the Kidd Milking Machine Company v. the Simplex Milking Machine Company, both of New Zealand, has been dismissed. .. The National Union of Railwaymen, in a conference at Bath, carried a resolution in favour of the nationalisation of the railways. June 24. It is officially announced that the Duke of Connaught will return to England in October. Prince Alexander of Teek will not be able to succeed him on account of his military duties, and it is likely that Lord Curzon will be appointed. June 26. The Earl of Selborne, Minister of Agriculture, has resigned. He will make a statement in the House of Lords on Tuesday. Several barytes mines in Shropshire, on the Welsh border, have been reopened, and new shafts are being sunk. OTTAWA, June 21. Explosion and fire destroyed the plant of the Canadian Explosives Company at Parry Sound. Five persons were killed and many were injured. A German plot is suspected.