BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13082, 17 April 1911, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Peess Association—^opyright.] London, April 14. j The Mansion House fund for the . King Edward memorial has reached . £58,400. . : Tho Old Potteries railway, from \ Shrewsbury to Llanminach, which cost 1 £2,000,000, and has been a derelict for , 30 years, was recently purchased for £32,000 and re-opened, . 1 La|os, April 14: Four hundred miles of railway connecting Baroj on the Niger, with Kana has been opened in the heart of Northern Nigeria. Berlin, April 14. Three persons were electrocuted through clutching a high tension wire which had been snapped by a storm. PariSj April 14. The Senate has adopted a Bill wherein it is intended to begin two battleships in 1911. Corfu, April 14. The Kaiser witnessed at Garitza in the Corcyan Temple dating from the beginning of the sixth century before Christ, the unearthing of a slab containing the clothed body of a monster Gorgon, and her foot, which was 20 inches ltog. The Kaiser described it a;? one of tho greatest antiquities in all time: (Received April 16, 5.5 p.m.) New York, April 15. At a fire at a shirt factory at St Louis the police prevented 200 terrified girl employees from leaping from windows, and firemen assisted them to safety: (Received April 17, 0.35 a.m.) Calcutta, April 16. Dr Gregorson's fate is uncertain. Two hundred Gurkhas and a company of Mahrattas are being despatched to the Abor country . Vancouver, April 16. Advices by steamer from Japan state that 22 men wore killed by a mine explosion at Hokkaido.