BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 1316, 12 July 1911, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Press Association—Copyright.]

London, July 10. Working men of # the Christian Brotherhood welcomed Mr McGowen, Now South Wales Premier, to Manchester. The Lord Mayor presided. • The Australian cadets at Highgate gave a display of surf bathing and the working of life saving apparatus. Competitors in the motoring tour, headed by Prince Honry of Prussia, drove from Southampton to Oxford, proceeding thence to Leamington. Tattersall's Club purchased the mare Sceptro for 7000 guineas. A coiners' den at Keniiington has been raided and nine arrests have

been made. "The Times' " crop report gives the conditions of British wheat" on July Ist at 91.67 per cont, and barley 85.7. Owing to the rain the crops generally were improving after the drought of April, May and June. The Native Races and Liquor Traffic Committee, representing world wide missionary and temperance organisations, is memorialising Mr Harcourt to urge him to call a meeting of Itne Powers at the earliest .possible date to consider the sale of spirits in Africa, and especially extending the prohibition zones towards the coast.