Second Edition LATEST MESSAGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 122, 15 July 1911, Page 6

Second Edition LATEST MESSAGES.

(Received 15, 1d.45 p.m.) Loudon, July 14. Raeburn’s picture “Lady Janet Tr nil. ' sold by auction for £l4, .-JO. Lancashire, playing against Derbyshire, scored 444 for seven wickets J. L. Tyldesley 125, W. Tyldesley 152. Middlesex, playing against Somerset, scored 501 for seven wickets— Tarrant 113. J. W. Hearne 234 (not out). Playing for Warwickshire, against Northamptonshire, Faster scared 1)3. (Received 15, 12.35 p.m.) Loudon, July 14. The Anglo-Japanese treaty has been renewed for ten years, the principal alteration being concerning the working of tho arbitration treaty. Sir W. Ilall-Joncs retires from tho Now Zealand High Commissionership at the end of August. The Wesleyan Conference at Cardiff resolved to appeal for a quarter of a million for foreign missions. Capetown, July 14. “Yolkstem,” tho official organ of General Botha’s party, suggests that it would be advantageous to Brib.ni and South' Africa if the latter wore neutral in the event of war between Britain and Germany.

The “Capo Times,” _ “Natal Mercury,” and “Natal Advertiser” ridicule “Volkstem’s” suggestion, and emphasise that South Africa is bound with Great Britain to stand or fall together.