MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12014, 15 August 1907, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

[ London, August 13. Joachim, the famous violinist, is dying. The man Brinkley has been executed for the murder of Becks at Croydon. •„ •• The tribesmen outside Casablanca, are armed w»th modern rifles of precision, which were introduced as contraband. The French have arrested the Governor of Casablanca and conveyed him to a warship, owing to his reluctance to follow instructions given him. Router's Agency reports that the Divisional Judge has rejected the appeal of all the Lahore riotersj In the House of Lords the Butter Bill was read a third time. Sir Horace Tozer (Queensland), in a tletter to the^'Times," corrects some public misconceptions regarding British labor in the Queensland canefields. . Lieut. -General Sir John French, commanding First Army Corps, has been appointed Inspector-General of the Forces. Lieut. -General DorrienSmith, commanding the Fourth Division of the Indian Army, succeeds Sir John French. Sailed— Kuapehu for Lyttelton. In the cricket match Staffordshire versus Durham, Barnes took 6 wickets for 23 and 6 for 7, taking four wickets with successive balls. Rhodes, Blythe, Barnes, and Hutchings have accepted the £ invitation to visit Australia. Hurst and;Lilley decline; It is understood that they with flayward and Tyldesley, consider that the Marylebone offer of £300 is insufficient to recoup their losses in business during their absence. | The newspapers deplore the defection of leading batsmen from the team. The "Daily Mail" suggests that Australia should offer better terms, enabling the Marylebone Club to give the professionals £400. New York, August 13. The telegraph operators at Los Angeles, California, struct on Friday, and the movement rapidly spread through the States. The Associated Press operators at Chicago dnd N6W York struck at midnight, and the Postal Company's Western Unions followed. . Mr Charles J. Bonaparte, United States Attorney-General, has initiated proceedings to compel Harriman and O'Kahn to answer questions relating to the Chicago-Alton Railroad control, which they refused to answer before the Inter-State Commerce Commission.

A favourite explanation of Wall street of yesterday's slump in shares is "Too much Roosevelt. "