BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 18971, 19 June 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AFFAIRS

FOUND SHOT DEATH OF SIR HENRY PRIMROSE (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, June 17. (Received June 17, 8.10 p.m.) Fir Henry Primrose was found near the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, early in the morning, with a bullet wcund in the head and a revolver at his side. He died a quarter of an hour later. He had been suffering from neurasthenia and insomnia. A nurse discovered his absence from his bedroom and informed the police. [Sir Henry Primrose was born in 1846, and was a grandson of the Fourth Earl cf Rosebery. He was private secretary to the Viceroy of India. Lord Ripon, 1880-84, and to Mr Gladstone 1886. From 1907 to 1914 he was Chairman of the Pacific Cable Board] BRITISH FOREIGN MISSIONS. LONDON, June 18. (Received June 18, 7.45 p.m.) Fhe sum of £9,594,000 is contributed annually towards the Ptotestant foreign miaaionfi, of which the United States and Canada provide £6,327,000, Britain £2,310,000, Sweden £280,000 and Australia £172,000. SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY ALLEGED. CHARGES AGAINST ART O'BRIEN AND OTHERS. LONDON, June 17. Art OBrien and eight others were committed for trial charged with seditious conspiracy. Galvin was committed on a further charge of illegally being in possession of firearms. The accused men all reserved their defence and bail was refused. Joyce was remanded for six months to inable him to enter a sanatorium. Y.M.C.A. MEMORIAL LONDON, June 17. As a permanent memorial to the Young Men’s Christian Associations’ work during the war Lord Asquith opened the Chateau De Lafallaise between Boulogne and Wimmereu as general headquarters, and a starting point for the Associations’ pilgrimages to war graves. ECHO OF RAND STRIKE. CAPETOWN, June 15. The Legislative Assembly passed a Bill to condone the break in the service of the railwaymen who went on strike in the Rand upheaval last year. The Minister stated that out of 6,000 employees only 412 went out. The Labour members expressed appreciation of the Minister’s action.