BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11116, 2 November 1907, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— ■CopyrightU ; ' LONDON. November- ;i.>-Seventy-five per cent, of the Great Western railway men have . assured r the. manager that they will be loyal > to ■ the company. l ; . .>■ . ■ : . (Received November 2,M0.52 a.m.) LONDON, November 1. ; In the Mokau estate : ,case ' the judge refused to stay . action m 'the case ; vJones versus Flowers,- the executors • declining to recognise the action.as frivolous. He directed the case to proceeds . Plague has appeared^at Tunic, and a fresh outbreak is reported at Gran and two Mediterranean ports, 1 ; BERLIN, November 1; ?; The Frankfurter §Jeitung. : states that the Public Prosecutor, ' actiri j? upon ;an anonymous, denunciation,, is instituting proceedings against '- Count Philip of ; Eulenburg and tJiree former high miltary; officers for an offence against; paragraph 175 oj the pehal code. ,; ; . : :■■, Dr. Carl , Hau has beeft sentenced-' -;-tt>< death, and his mother-in-law commit jjed. tojbeiial servitude for liff . The y Kaiser is suffering from chill', and is coilflned'to Ibed. .... J^rr Ton . Schbn,Minister for Foreign Affaii's; accompanies him oil his, visit to England.' ; NEW! 'YORK, November 1. The Navy pepartment has ' decided rto increase the width of locks of the Panama Canal., ;■■■■ '■ .; . .;.. ■',:,: :';;, : ;; v ,. : •. „y . :->;;,! 1 Ah Aririenian named. HampartZovinian has • been ' convicted : by.', a New York jury of niurdering Tavshaiijian,, 1 a wealthy Armenian' memiaiii/. ■'"- '■■ v,. .■':'k ! r:^/ : ;'..; ;'/ ,The United, States v.Pos^master-General has decided that Lusitania and Maurej^lriia, iiustead' of , the American line, shall convey Saturday's New York mails "to Britain. .....' ■'•• ■'■ .■;. ''.• ■/■: /: '; .•■ - : '. '-■,■ ■■■ ■';. . '. ', ST/: PETERSBURG, November I/: The ' aasassinator of '« M. : ■ Maximosky, State Councillor, is toVhe hanged. ' • ; .Lieutehant Matuschenks, leader of the mutiny on the ' battle)ship ; Kniaz Poteinkin,o m 1905, has been sentenced\ to death at Sevastopol.. . T . The , arrests: of military clerks a,t St. Petersburg; revealed a/ plot to 'kill with bombs the whole" of the^Utary/CouJicil, including the Minister^ <>f War, at the weekly .sitting of the jOouncil. - *

/ .;.•■-■ - : ' , . .ROftlE, Nbvember 1. : The floods m Northern Jtaly caused \ a million pounds sterling damage to enibankments >at the- hydraulic works. M4ny people are homeless at Placenza. ".; Several fatalities are reported at Taira. Ci-emona was inundated. '.'.'■. : „-"■.. , ;

; A strike has begun , on ;the State railway as a protest against tlie punishment of -those "who recehtlV (struck at Milan. ' BUDA PESm, November 2. A poli tical and religious, disturbance at the village of Qseryona, Hungary, led to a. cbnf|ict withi" gendarmes,^ during , which thirteen Slbvaks were killed, eight severely wounded, ,an<l eighty slight^, injured; Angry debates thereon haye taken place m the Atlstrian Parliament. \ '

v l PRETQIUA, : November 1. - . Lieutenant Clarke, tif the .Yorkahire Light Infantry, Lieutenant Herring," -of the Royal Engineers, dridDickson, an exmember of the Civil $ervice, have been arrested here on the charge of desecrating Kruger's grave. ■ : , ■■' 4 ; v -.v./\ ;i -- i 'Mdßocc.o,;.:Nov;:i: i r Advifcee from Saffli state v<: that Mulai Hafai, 'finding the tribes-vdleserting . him, • wishes' to be recbncilWdj^to, Abdul Aziz 1 , (pfayided 1 he ig appointed .Governor of Marfacesh. - -.-:,..■■•. -- : '.U. ' :^ ;^ ; '