BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13373, 6 May 1914, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By j Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received May 6, 8.30 a.m.) . • LONDON, May 5. Fenner has been, committed for trial. He stated >tliat he must admit the truth of the' charges. He did not wish to make any excuse. He said he. regretted the pain and loss to his creditors, and that he would do his utmost to 'help the trustee to deal with the estate m their interests. The Home Office lias issued summonses against Edward ShaM, manager of the Senghenydd mine, for negligence m connection with safety lamps, registration of temperature, and failure to provide- means of reversing the air current, and failure to prevent dust accumulating. (Received May 6, 10.55 a.m.) After a' chase through England, Scotland, and Wales, Lilian Lenton, the hunger striker, who was frequently disguised, was . rearrested for setting fire, to a pavilion at Kew m 1913. Horatio Bottomley and Julius Elias, representing the printers, were summoned for an article m "John Bull" containing references to a proposal and schemes for tickets m lotteries run m Switzerland called the "Grand National Sweepstake," and "John Bull Derby" sweep. In each case a certain sum wag promised for charities. Mr Bottomley contended that the article constituted a legitimate newspaper controversy. ■ The case w«« adjourned. . NEW YORK, May 5. Junius Morgan, kged 23 years, a son of Mr J. P. Morgan, and grandson of the late Mr Pierpont Morgan, is engaged to Miss Louise Converse, aged 1& years, of Boston. Mr Morgan is studying at Harvard. The wedding will take place when, he has graduated. ST. PETERSBURG, May ,5. The Russian Aerial Congress recom.-. mends that a national volunteer air fleet race be arranged between an armored aeroplane and a locomotive from St. Petersburg to Moscow. (London Times and Sydney Sun Services.) CAIRO, May 5. . The directors of the Egypt Explora- [ tion Fund discovered, at Oxyrhynchus a new poem by Sappho. A few stanzas 1 are readable on the damaged papyrus. (Received May 6. 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 51 A Catholic Canon, Father McLouglilin, at> Fishguard, found a navvy m agony ou the roadside. He propped him up, put his clerical coat around him, and escorted him to a surgery, where ho recovered. The Canon himself died of pneumonia. A successful demonstration of wireless telephony was made at Mr Marconi's house. The Italian Navy is installing the mechanism on ships, and the Admiralties of other nations are inclined to adopt the system, which is simple. ,- Tho call is as easy* as that of an ordinary telephone. CAPETOWN, May 5. The cricket unions of South Africa, at a conference at Bloemfontien, decided to form a Board of Control to dipplace the Cricket Union, whose management of the recent' tour is generally condemned. Tliey passed a resolution, vieMing with' apprehension the vast amount of money wasted m entertaining the English team.