BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13274, 27 November 1911, Page 1

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Press Association—Copyright.]

London, Nov '24. Lady Constance Lytton was lined 40s and ordered to pay damage for smashing post office windows. Miss Shallard was sentenced to two montlis' imprisonment for assaulting a policeman, and a number of others were lined 10s and ordered to puy for the damage done. E. T. Hooley was committed lor trial, bail being allowed in £4,000. Tiie report of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., shows that £20,000 has been added to the premises account, £5000 to the stall' benevolent fund, £00,000 to reserve, £50,000 to capital reserve, leaving a profit of £20,032. After paying a dividend of seven and a half per cent and an additional two and a half per cent on third debentures, £292 is carried forward. A scheme of reorganisation of the capital will be submitted in 1912.

London, Nov. 25

The West India Committeo proteslc;l against Britain's withdrawal from t! 10 Sugar Convention, urging that it would check the investing of capital in sugar ventures in the colonies. The committee of the memorial of Kii!!< Edward unanimously approved of Mr. Bertram MaeKonnal's design for a statue in Piccodilly, at tho end of Broad Walk. Mr MacKonnal, with Mr. Lutziusas, an architect, will submit a complete mode] in three months.

The- Manchester November Handicap resulted: Ultimas- 1, Fort 2, Donnezinoi 3.

Only half tho Maori troupe sailed by tho Somerset, as despite Sir William Hall-Jones' disapproval llangiuia persuaded twenty to remain in tlie expectation of music hall engagements.

Brunncr, Mond and Company have acquired ccntrol of the soap concerns or Joseph Crosiield and Sons, Warrington, and Goiio.go and Sous, Widnes.

London, Nov. L SC

The Australasian footballers scored 10 iiies, seven of wkich were converted, to Barrow's penalty goal and two tries.

Cairo, Nov 2->

la honour of the King's visit tho Cvraud Cross of tlio Victorian Ordor has l)eeii conferred on Zia-ed-Din, eld■••t son of the Sultan of Turkey. New York, Nov. 21.

Henry Boattie was electrocuted "l Richmond, Virginia, for tlio mure!or of his wife. He confessed to the murder in the presence of two ministers. The trial, which lasted for weeks, oxrited enormous interest throughout the United States. The woman war. shot in a motor car mid lieattie j<ssortwl that she was killed by assassins, despite his struggles to save her. Tho gun used in the murder was found on the road where it had jolted out of the car and was proved to belong to Beattio. Morse, .1 banker who is serving a term in a penitentiary, has been p.-r----doned on the ground of ill health. Gotch meets Hammyrsehmidt, t,i" German champion, at Minneapolis on November 30th. Mr. Rockefeller denies tho charges made by the -Merritt brothers regarding' the Mesaba mines, and submits a paper signed by his accusers admitting tho baselessness of the charges

Ottawa, Nov. 2o

There is much dissatisfaction at the failure of the Home Government to carry out its promise to appoint an Imperial trade commission. It is felt that the appointment of the Canadian Tariff Commission has been a great oppoitunity to further investigation into the Empire's trade. Mr. Mark, Minister for J'ub ie Works declares that tho attacks liy Sir Wilfrid .haurier are unfounded, as he is fully in accord with Mr. Hi.rden's naval policy. The French (/.n----adians are loyal subjects of the Kii'g. and intend to accept the verdict »i the people of Canada on the question. 1 Rome, Nov. 21. The police at Florence recover;! Fra Angelico's picture, of the Macnina Delia Estel which was stn.cn from the San Marco convent. A nun near Florence, noticing that he was being watched, threw a parcel nuo a hedge containing the stolen pidurc and escaped. He intended to coir.cj the painting abroad.