BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13328, 31 January 1912, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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tendon, .lan 29. An earthquake shock has been felt at Loch Umiond.

At the Bankruptcy Court Horatio liottomley submitted an offer to hiii creditors guarantwi!!;; afc least a dividend of 7s Od in th<- £.

Twenty degrees of frost have been recorded in many parts of England. The Hoods are now ■abating. fjfndrum, utilising losing hazards, scored 9333 and ltceeo <38G7.

Paris, Jan 29. A man named Devos, who was sentenced to live years' imprisonment for robbery, escaped by a wire ladder lowered from (he gallery of the Pafaco of Justice to tho exercise ground of the prison.

New Ycrk, Jan 2!). At Tachoma a 'fv.'o.kkeuppr named H M. l'"orbc.s committed suicide owing to financial troubles the day before no'ivs arrived ox ;>. fortune- loft'him by a rlcn jutnV iii -Massachusetts.

New York, Jan 30. Albert Wolter, who was found yui/tr of causing the death of a stenographer named Ruth Whaler, was electrocuted at Sing Siiiy.nrkon. He declared his inno.?<;ncf.'. The girl was brutally driiie to death. t!:e budy being terribl'v mutilated.

Berlin, Jan 30. The Prussian loan was over-sub-.scri!>ed\