BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13286, 11 December 1911, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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Lcndon, Dec 9. Stevenson scored 7501 and Gray 0059. . Thomas Field, a burglar who was undergoing trial at Birmingham, j hurled a stool and smashed Mr Justice Ridley's desk, wounding Mr. Justice Ridley on the face and knocking off his wig and spectacles. It is alleged that he intended to strike a witness whom tho prisoner further , threatened. He was sentenced to five : years' imprisonment besides completing an unexpired sentence of fifteen ; months. 1 London, Dec 10. The Australians scored tw.o tries to Salford's try. The Rev. Silvester Home, M.P., speaking at the Free Church Conference at Inglesey, declared that Nonconformists regarded the Church of England as a pagan institution. He would oppose tho Disestablishment Bill if the Anglicans retained their cathedrals. The Hagiia, Dec 9. The Opium conference unanimously adopted Britain's resolutions under which every Government may tramp effective laws and regulations controlling the production of opium and restricting the localities of import and oxport. Athens, Dec 9. With a view to preventing the arrival of Cretan deputies with armed partisans, the Premier imposed upon vessels from Crete a fivo days' political quarantine at Metos. Tho carrying of armed Cretans will be treated as piracy. Capetown, Dec ». A disastrous hailstorm at Johannesburg put an end to the drought. Mr Smuts, speaking at Pretoria, emphatically declared in favour of immigration. New York, Dec 8. Mrs Sudall, who shot dead her divorced husband, against whom she alleged illtreatment, was acquitted by the jury. New York, Dec 9. Los Angeles reports state that a widespread investigation of all -the dynamiting conspiracies in recent years has been undertaken by the federal grand jury at Indianopolis, where the McNamaras were arrested. A windstorm wrecked communication between San Francisco and Southern California. There was one known death, and others are missing. Rome, Dec 8. In connection with the state of war between Turkey and Italy the lighting of the Krythrcan coast has been resumed.