BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13360, 8 March 1912, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[Press Association—Coi'Yeight.]

London, March 6. Horatio Hottomley's bankruptcy proceedings have been adjourned, owing to Bottomley suffering from a nervous breakdown.

Capetown, March G. Owing to the high mortality amongst tiij tropical natives oinplo.ved in the Gficry, Eckstein, Itobiiihon and Rand mines, the Govcrnuicnt has decided to firbid those groups from furtlier imIXprting

Calcutta, Mnrch 6,

The All India Moslem League roelecti'd Aga Khan as President. He consented to resume office.

Guayaquil, March 6. Gencrnl Andrade has been assassinated by his own soldiers at Quito.

Paris, March 7,

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies approved of the ratification of tho Declaration of London.

Vienna, March 7

The police have recovered £40,000 worth of jewels which were stolen from the Countess Szeehenzi, formerly Vandorbilt, at TJuda P<?sth. Constantinople, March 7.

The newspaper "Tanin" states that negotiations have been opened with Hnt:iin roncerning the Persian Gulf section of tlio Baghdad railway.