BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13277, 30 November 1911, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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London, Nov 28,

Mr Asquith, speaking in the House of Commons said that the Commission to inquire into the trade of the Empire would be appointed as early as possible. It was proposed to appoint one member from eacJi Dominion, and six from the United Kingdom.

Baron Gustav Rothschild, of tho Cunard Company, has acquired a large interest in tho Anchor Line.

Tho Joint Stock Trust and Finance Corporation has summoned Mr Horatio Bottomley in tho Chancery Court for £36,000 damages for alleged misfeasance. The case was adjourned.

Judgment in the action arising out of the Olympic-Hawke collision was reserved.

Gotch offers to wrestle Munro aiiy time before January 6th, when he will leave for a European tour. Capetown, Nov 28.

Mr Botha, Premier, speaking at a Congress of the Hctvolk. at Pretoria, said ho would throw all his weight in the direction of assisting mining. He added that tho Government was considering the utilisation of white labour on farms. If none were available men must be imported.

New York, Nov 28. The Aero Club has notified the International Federation that it has awarded the disrupted Statue of Liberty prize sf November last year to Grahame White. Moissaut was declared by America to be the winner.

Obituary: Mr Irvine 13. Dudley, United States Ambassador to Brazil, from heart failure.

Two patrolmen were killed at San Francisco in a fight-while arresting a Greek wanted for a murder in Greece.

At La Fayette, Indiana, a negress has been arrested charged with hacking to pieces six negroes. Tho accused a young woman laughed when charged with the crime, the motive for which is unknown.

Yeats' play, "A Play Boy of the Western World," produced at Maximan Elliott's theatre, caused an uproar. The police effected ten arrests. Refuse was thrown at the actors. There was a similar unroar in Dublin in 1907.

Two renegade Indians who killed a deputy constable are being chased in the Eagle Lake district by hundreds of armed men instructed to shoot on sight. The Indians are desperadoes who are wanted for many crimes.

There are forest fires in the Ventura district. Fire fighters saved tho town, but many ranches in the outlying country were burned. Ottawa, Nov 28.

It is estimated that £8,000,000 worth of property was brought into Canada by British immigrants in 1911. The immigrants' numbers for the current year now exceed 150,000.

Tho Duke of Connaught was welcomed on his official visit to Toronto. Thousands lined the streets, which were splendidly decorated. The Duke praised the growth of tho cadet movement in Canada.

A Bill to amend the Public Inquiries, Act is proposed tin connection with the investigation into the Laurier Government's expenditure.

It is anticipated that tho new boundaries of Ontario and Manitoba will be arranged so as to give Ontario Hudson's Bay.

The Government has appointed special commissioners to inauire into a possible scheme of co-operation in immigration between tho Provincial and Federal Governments.

The Government has recalled Jlr Jackson, Trade Commissioner at Leeds (England) charged with being implicated in election bribery a few years ago.

Bombay, Nov 28. Sir David Sassoon, donor of the statue of King George, which was un veiled yesterday, has placed £53,323 at the Government's disposal to promote the welfare of agriculturists in commemoration of the Royal visit.

Stockholm, Nov 29. A declaration has been signed allowing the colonies to withdraw from treaties at a year's notice. A" treaty thus modified was signed in 1654, of which Jehn Milton was probably the author. It is written in Latin.