BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12581, 11 October 1911, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By Tele ) grapb. : -C>opyrigh i t.> "The /British/ Pqstmaster-Gene£al|s report displays a general/ :/ of business; v'l!he xevexrue. Jpr^ttgrjieaa' wias £19,749,061' , ; ,#ud the ; expeiidjEtUre £14,---271,376. n .'.C "' -,; v'r A private.;, conference between , Mr Lloyd George>* represeniatives of } the [Medical Association, and^ijhe Friendly Societies, has <iV jt . ,is understood, arrived at a compromise regarding the objections to the National Insurance Bil). ... (Received October 11. 9.40 a.m.) j mNDON, Oct. JO. . Sir Edward , Strachey, Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, states Jthat jfoot and mouth disease m Somerset is serious. . Ini jn'ne centres,, the' disease is not traceable, to foreign feeding stuffs. It is officially stated that the decoration of the.Grand Gross of thfr-Batlif has been bestowed on Lord Dudley, jiorj.merly Governor-General of f the Commonwealth. ST. PETERSBURG, -Oct. 10. A telegram from Hankau reports the discovery m the Russian -concession of a bomb laboratory, and bundles, , formed | like paper dollars, of revolutionary manifestos, urging the proclamation of a Chinese Republic. ' . v ; (Received October 11, 12.20 .p.m.) ST. : PETERSBURG, Oct. 10. Ten lighters laden with , grain, anil 15 with coal and' cotton, have been .seriously damaged or sunk during a gale. , , . .-., NEW YORK, Octv.JO. Reports from Denver state that with the telegraph and telephone service crippled, and 300 miles of railroad out of commission, only meagre reports, are; received from the cloud-swept district of South-western Colorado and Northwestern .Mexico. There are rumors of heavy loss of life, but no verified list is available. -.- : - PEKING, Oct. 10. Revolutionaries at Hanku planned to seize Wuchang. Twenty-eight were arrested and, four beheaded.