BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13359, 7 March 1912, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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London, March 5. Tlie Walker Art Gallery at Liverpool has purchased the picture "Bon Join'," by Bess Morris, of Melbourne;

-> ■ .. London; March 6 The Free Church Council, notwithstanding tiro Premier's assurance'that the Education Bill would be introduced next session, expressed disappointment at it not being proceeded with now

Renter's Bangkok correspondent reports a revolutionary conspiracy at Bangkok, ni which army and navy officers are implicated. Many arrests havo been made.

New York, March 6. Five vessels are ice bound an Lake Michigan Muily llassengm-s are on board, but there is no 'danger yet. There was a pathetic meeting between Mrs Kilbonrne, of Tacoma, and her daughter, who was taken away by her father nine years ago, following divorce proceedings. The British consular authorities located tlie girl at Auckland.

Lisbon, March 5. Owing to impure water typhoid is widespread in the city.

Paris, March 5. Albert Koenig. a driver in the serviro of the Eastern Franco Railway, while suffering from neurasthenia, threw himself into the furnace of the engine while at full speed, and was burned to death;

Amsterdam, March 6. Advices stato that tile Government has decided to banish 100 of the ringleaders of the recent Chinese- disturbances in Java;