British and Foreign Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11956, 2 May 1902, Page 3

British and Foreign Telegra ms.

United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. Received May 1, 10.47 p.m. AUSTRALIANS BEWAKE. London, May 1. The Genoa newspaper Caffaro states that Italy . intends acquiring an island in Australian waters on which to establish a pemtentiaiy colony or 'the transportation off confirmed criminals and dangerous persons hitherto condemned to solitary confinement. The same news is published in some French journals. Received May 2, 12-.37 a.m. A REPORT CONTRADICTED. London, May 1. The reported occupation of the Ladoenelave is semi-oflicially contradicted. Lado is a fortified station on the Upper Nile, in Emm Pashas Province. • A GERMAN MILITARY TRIAL. Berlin, May 1. The re-trial of Sergeants Marten and Hickel by the Court of Appeal, for shooting Captain von ICrosiglc, resulted in the acquittal. lhe case in its several phases has been before th* German Courts for some months, and created a large amount of interest. Received May 2, 12.46 a.m. THE TRIAL OF PRINCESS RADZIWELLCape Town, May 1. The trial of Princess Radziwill is concluded. Accused's counsel urged that she had acted with no fraudulent intent, and nobody was injxuedbv the transactions. The Attor-ney-General stigmatised her as a blackmailer, and a cruel and dancerous woman, The Chief Justice m summing up remarked that it was notsuggested in the correspondence! that Mrs Scholtz had., handed the : prisoner the bills. A verdict of guilty was returned on all counts. The -Chief Justice in passing sentence, deplored the prisoner's attem■nt to asperse an innocent woman <Krsi Scholtz).,. and alsto the of a post office boy to commit forgery Owing to her delicate health. Princess Rodziwell was committed for two years to house of cor•rection. The prisoner listened to the sentence with bowed head. "' Received May a, 9.22 a.m. * Le Temps states that disturbances iutve occurred on the Mekong River and communications are cut. The s?ench Minister in, S*am has remonstrated regarding, .the moment of Siamese troops. Serious <WJc«Hies are also reptoted at «attam"bang. The Acting-Governor of French Indo-China, as a precaution, sent S the left bank of the Mekong, op-, posite Bassak, .a town in foiam, a detachment of 300 troops aiso 400 ?o Pursat, a town in Cambodia, same miles south-east of Battambang. Received May 2, 9.28 a.m. THE PHILIPPINE ATROCITIES. New York, May 1. Evidence was given at General Smith's trial that a- Fxhpmo Gene - al ordered his men to poison their spears, and issued a proclamation that German warships were helping the Filipinos. A FATAL PANIC. A panic arose among 600 women woVking in a Philadelphia *igar Jactorv owine- to a false alarm of me* Seven were killed and thirty injured. DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO. • ' Calcutta, May 1. A tornado in the Bengal province killed 416 people at Dacca, and destroyed all the crops. . KEEN DEMAND FOR AUTOMO- , , . BILES. Last month the value of orders -placed with English makers for automobiles totalled £1,000,000. Received May 2, 11.47 awn. I^NDON WATER SUPPLY BOARD London, May 1. The Joint Parliamentary Com T mittee on the London water supply has been transformed into a Water "Board, and will consist of 35 members representative of the metropolitan boroughs and urban districts, excepting the Borough of Uest Ham, which nas been eliminated. No coun•tvis to be allowed a majority. The vital principles of the scheme proposed by the President of the Local Government Board have been destroyed, and the attitude of the Government in the matter is uncertain. COLONIAL . ARTIST'S PICTURES !Large*sea pictures by David- Davis the colonial artist, have been hung in a line in tha Royal Acad*'AN ASSASSIN SENTENCED TO DEATH. "Balschanett has feen sentenced to be hanged. The third assassin has .not teen identified,, but he is believed to be an officer. * THE MALTA EDUCATION DISPUTE. Notwithstanding Mr C Jiamberlain's warning that the reduction oi postponement oi the Education vote would be considered equivalent to reacting the Malta Legislative Council has granted only a month s supply.