BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13316, 17 January 1912, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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London, Jan 15. "Lloyd's Register" snya there were 72 sailing vessels totalling 20,936 tons; and 50 warship*, 230,786 tons, launched in the United Kingdom during 1911. Naval and military authorities are testing a rifle sighting device invented by Sergeant Ommundsen, tho King's Prize winner. Ho claims that it eliminates the necessity for judging distance. The keel plate ef the first armoured ship of the current naval programmel, the 28tlr ship ef the Dreadnought class, has been laid down at Portsmouth. T'ho Ho«i William Hamilton has been granted a divorce from his wife, Lord Hamilton of Dalaifll being citsd as co-respondent. A doctor has bequeathed £150,000 for the erection of alms houses at Hull, preference to he given to inmates who have been in better circumstances. Iteinhanlt's production of Gilbert Murray's translation of "Oedipus" was a success at Covent Garden. There were remarkable scenic and crowd effects. Mr Martin Harvey appeared as 'Oedipus," and Miss Lilian McCarthy as "Joeasfca." Berlin, Jan 15. At tho -oxpiry of his nine months' sentence Count Wolff Metternich was re-arrested at tho prison cloor on a charge of enrd-fOmriMiig. Washington, Jan. 10. Tho Senate agreed to ■ admit the public to the debates on the pending Anglo-American and French treaties. Tho decision was influenced by Mr. Taft's open discussion of these treaties.