MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11968, 22 June 1907, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

London, June 20. Four men implicated in the theft Of the Ascot Cup escaped in a motor car from the rear of the grandstand. The intrinsic value of the cup is £300. The police suspect a colonial gang of thieves. Howard, Smith and Co., Ltd., working in conjunction with Andrew Weir and Co., conduct the Pacific mail service from Seattle and San Francisco. The Russian Government was the first to warn the Dutch authorities to use every precaution to protect the delegates to the Peace Convention. By relieving China of part of the war indemnity (£2,000,000), President Eoosevelt really saves her nearly £5,000,000, including the interest up to the end of the stipulated instalments. ___ , . , The indictment "of the Theatrical Trust for conspiracy to restrain trade was dismissed, the United States Supreme Court holding that plays were not articles of trade in common use. Eeuter states that 250 persons were poisoned at a banquet at the opening of the barracks at Cosne, on the Loire. France, including the officer commanding the Eighth Army Corps.