BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12844, 29 November 1905, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. GALE IN ENGLAND. LONDON, November -27. The severest gale experienced for years is raging, on the southern and eastern coasts of England. THE NORMANTON SEAT. Mr Hall, miners' ageut, has been fleeted unopposed for the Norman ton division of Yorkshire in place of Mr William Parrot, deceased. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH COUNCIL. ' A representative meeting of the Church Council, under the Archbishop, of Canterbury, adopted a scheme of representation for laity on the Council, the franchise to be confined to those having the status of communicants. TROPHY STOLEN. A massive silver motor trophy, valued -at- £IOOO, ivas stolen frr.m the motor exhibition at. the Olvmpia Grounds. MASQUERADING AS A MAN. A handcuffed prisoner named Jillsnn, supposed to be the man connected with the Burnley fraud, committed suicide by -jumping from a train near Stockton-on-Tees.

The inquest showed ■ that Jillson "was a woman named Edith Gates, who had been sentenced at the Old Bailey,on May 22nd of last year for .the ; Key registry frauds. • THE KING'S CUP! LONDON, November 28. King Edward has offered a cup for an ocean yacht race between Sandy Hook and the Needles, in 1907. JAPAN'S WAR LOSSES. TOKIO, November 27. The Superintendent of the Japanese Army Medical Department, reports that the killed and wounded in the war numbered 218,429, and the sick 221,i36. BOWIE'S NEW .VENTURE! NEW. YORK November 27. Dr Dowig has land in Mexico for " Zion Paradise .Plantations." He attributes Ms recovery from paralysis to prayer. Received 10.1 p.m.. November 28th. THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. BERLIN, November 28. "The German colonial estimates provide for the incorporation and administration of the Marshall Islands with the Carolines, Pelew and Marianne Island. THE KING AND CABINET. CHRISTIANIA, November 28. At King Haakon's request the Mitchelson Government remain in office.