BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.—By . - Telegraph— Copyright,! ' ' r * July 7. - The Scotfcishycoalmasfcers have decided to lock out the rainera whenever the four days' a week proposal is carried out. Hie Hon. T. Mackenzie attended a. deputation to the Board of Trade- asking; for support for a British Empire trade, mark. ' (Received July 8, 9.15 a.m.). - A series of towers^ Armed with quickfirers, for defence .against air craft, are being erected around Portsmouth harbor and elsewhere on the coast. Mr Austen Cliam^erlain* has resigned Worcestershire East seat, and will contest West Birmingham. VANCOUVER, July 7. New Zealand butter, best, m 3Jh lots, is selling at 3s lld. , ST. PETERSBURG*, July 7. There are forest' flre» over wida stretches of North East Russia m alarming proportions. An enormous quantity of corn and hay has' been destroyed. July 7. Insurance doctorS'-at' Neidbarnim, near. [Berlin, have struck;, for an increase m pay of 50 per cent. ■.;'•.,

PARIS, July 7.. Legagneux, while looping-the-lo'op* at Sournur, fell into the. river Loige, and died from his injuries. , A man named Kirichek, & Russian •anarchist, and a Pole named Troanoriky, who were carrying powerful bombs, were arrested aty Reaurmont-sur-Oise, near Pontoise, They are believed to haye beep plotting, 'against President Poincare to prevent his visit to the Caar. Kirichek states that the bombs were intended for the Czar; , (London Times and Sydney Sun Services.), (Received, July. 8 k 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 1. Tlie census returns of 1911 disclose a sharp contraction m the numher engaged m domestic service, and an expansion m the number engaged m agriculture. The Anglican clergy declinedfrom 25,235 to- 24,35^- Catholic priests increased froip 2849 to 3302. Buboniq pkgme has |>roken out m New Orleans. Two victims are dead, and there are three m the hospital. THEHAGUE, July '2. The naval authorities have decided to t-fain natives of the Dutch Indies a» | seamen, signallers, gunners, aard torIfeda mem on the: fleet there. They "vvill receive the^jsame training as Dntcb sailors, but will V kept apart from vfhite men, '