TELEGRAPHIC

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12142, 10 August 1903, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association —By Electric . ■ Telegraph—Copyright Received 5.47 a.m., August Bth. THE HUMBERTS ON TRIAL. , PARIS, August 7. " Le Matin " publishes a, series of letters ifrom M. Flourens, J, former Foreign Minis.ter, to Madame Humbert, appealing for ' money for election expenses. August 8. The trial of the .Humberts commenced in Paris to-day. The city is excited, and .it is expected that sensational revelations will be made. There are twenty-eight v witnesses. An important dossier in the tease has disappeared. NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL. LONDON, August 7. - '■ Lord'Nonhcote will succeed Loid-Tenny-son as Governor-General of Australia, in /December. , [Lord Northcote is the second son of the - first Earl of Iddesleigh (better known as Sir Stafford Northcote). He was/private secretaiy to Lord Salisbury from 1876 to 1877; " Financial Secretary to the War Office 1885-6, and Surveyor-General of Ord- i nance 1885-6; sat for Exeter in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899, and Jn 1900' was appointed Governor of Bombay; was created a baronet in 1887, and a peer in 1900. In 1873 he married Alice; the adopted daughter of Baron Mount Stephen, I and is 57 years of. age:] WHITTAKER WRIGHT ON BAIL. August 8. Whittaker Wright has been released -on bail. *

: DECORATIONS FOR SOMALI SOLDIERS. : . , v The King has conferred distinguished conduct "• medal» on two members of :fhe Boer Somaliland Contingent, and awarded. t Colonel Manning a Commandersnip of the Bath for bis services. > ; ~', SUICIDE. Dodgson,' commander of the- Kingstowrr. destroyer flotilla, lias committed suicide. He had suffered Irom an old wound in.-the ■ ' head. >'"■••; C J '■' : ' ABDUCTION fOF AN IMPORTANT WITNESS. ■•■•'.'.■' BERLIN, August 7. Three masked men abducted Fueda Sittel, a young gill, fiom the Magdalen Asylum in Berlin. She was the principal witness at the trial of forty men charged with offences against young girls. The abductors overpowered the asylum guards, scaled the walls, smashed the iron grating of the girl's cell, and bribed the girl, .who was in lier nightdress, to accompany them. THE KISHIXEFF MASSACREJ ST/PETERSBURG; August; 7. •The trial of forty-two' persons, charged" with the Kishineff massacre, is proceeding Becretly. • . ; ;•' Received' 9.29 a.m., August 9th. . - • THE ATLANTIC SHIPPING AGREE- ■ > ' MENT. NEW YORK, August 8. The American Press consider that the British Government have much the best of the Atlantic shipping agreement. ARRESTS IN PEKIN. PEKIN, August 8. Five members of the Reform Party, inuluding a brother of the Viceroy of Wuchang, have been arrested at Pekin.