BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11128, 30 July 1907, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press. Assn.— -By Telegraph-rCopyright). (Received July 30, 7_ 5 a.in j LONDON, July 29. ■;;; Sir Henry Primrose has been appointed chairman of tjie Pacific Cable ■ Board, m Succession to the late Sir Spencer Walpole'. • .■.■■■'/ "•'". Six hundred Belfast policemen left their beats while on duty, and demanded highef wages' and better pensions. The Com- _:. ■•■ missioner promised a decision on Satur- •- day.- ) '-y : yy..; •■■ V" . . „".,■ -,:":.- - It is ' reported that Mr Lloyd-George -■> : .will next session propose to municipalise they London docks. .'.-,- -...-,-. "",-.' .-'; Reuter state, that while lecturing' on - Socialism at Winnipeg, .Mr Keir Hai-die's - hat, vesrt and tobacco pouch were stolen. y % MOROCCO, July 29. Three thousand of the Sultan's troops are surrounding country-. 'inhabited'.:. by theHarkmassJtribe, m order to capture Raisuli. •: ■ 1 yy. . BUCHAREST, July 29. . Fifty-eight Roumanian soldiers were /..-'• sentenced to penal servitude for life for ' refusing to fire upon peasants during recent'agrarian disturbances. . NEW YORK, July, 29. A settlement] has been reached m the conflict between the Governor of North Carolina and the Federal Circuit * Court. The railway implicated agreed to the Governor's proposal of a 2i cents 'rate, the law to operate if rom Bth August. A proviso is also being made that the highest courts m the land .shall speedily adjudicate on existing* cases.