BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2950, 23 November 1900, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LAST NIGHTS CABLE.

United Press Association —Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9 a.m., November 22nd. THE.BRITTANIC’S CONTINGENT. LONDON, November 21. The Brittanic’s contingent for Sydney has been paraded at Malta. IMPORTANT CAPTURE. Lieutenant Kingston Departrons, a West African, captured at Ashanti General Iscimo Robina Cheri with many followers. EXPLORATION. An Anglo - Egyptian expedition has started to explore and establish military posts in Bahr-el Gazal. NOT A STERN PARENT. Mr Zimmerman, father of the Duchess of Manchester, has relented, and welcomed the newdy-married couple. Received 9.12 a.m., November 22nd. AUSTRALIAN HORSES. In response to Mr Copeland’s request the War Office has instructed Colonel Hunt to purchase some Australian horses. THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. The Nationalists will not attend the December session of the Imperial Parliament, preferring to be present at the Dublin Convention to arrange a. plan of campaign. CENTRAL AFRICA. BRUSSELS*. November 21. King Leopold has rectified Rivu as the Central African boundary in favour of Germany, in return for German support in obtaining a strip of territory on the left bank of the Peiho, below Tientsin. LORD HOPETOUN. BOMBAY, November 21. Lord Hopetoun has sailed from here for Colombo. His Excellency was so weak that he had to be carried aboard in a dhooly. Major Philson, of the Army Medical Department, accompanies him. Received 10.56 p.m., November 22nd. SEIZURE OF A BRITISH STEAMER. LONDON, November 22. The warship Pheasant has been ordered to Panama owing to Columbia seizing a British steamer to convey troops against the insurgents. NAUTICAL ENQUIRY. Received 9.40 a.m., November 22nd. In the case of the New Zealand barque Embleton v. the Canard liner Campania, the Admiralty Court delivered judgment in

favour of the barque, declaring that the speed of nine knots per hour in a fog was greatly excessive for a steamer.

Received 12.46 a.m., November 23rd. FATAL TORNADO. NEW YORK, November 22. By a tornado in Tennessee * and North