BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14002, 10 September 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

fross Astwiation-By Telegraph-Copyright ADVENTURES IX THE AIR. LONDOX, Sept. S. Mr S. F. Cody accomplished a crosscountry flight of 03 minutes at Aldershot, and circled and manoeuvred with the greatest ease at a height of 250 feet. Two Paris aeronauts' balloon fell on ihe railway at Romaneche as a train was approaching, but it stopped in vtime to save their lives. Two aviators of Milan:'were seriously injured and the aeroplane wrecked. Sixty thousand people at New York witnessed a balloonist's fatal fall of 1000 feet, owing to the parachute not working. PTOMAINE POISONING. Sixty persons are suffering from phomaine poisoning at Rristol through eating corned beef and pork. DR. .JAMESON. Dr. Jameson has "returned from Carlsbad greatly improved in health, and announces certain political developments in South Africa. At, present he is devoting himself to the development of Rhodesia, and now intends to seek election to the Union Parliament. Ffe had hoped that a coalition Government would hold office in the early years of the TTnion. A eon tin nance of the present party division was inevitable, and would delay the total disappearance of the racial problem, which had been a curse to Seuth Africa. As a coalition had been found impossible, he will return in November to assist his party.

Received 9.55 p.m., Sept. 9th. RELEAE OF SUFFRAGETTES. LONDON,. Sept. 9.. The six suffragettes who were imprisoned in connection with Mr Churchill's Leicester -speech were released after five days' refusal to take food or drink. THE ADANA .MASSACRES. ADAXA. Sept. 8. In connection with the massacres at Adana, Djevad Bey, an ex-Vali, lias been sentenced to six years' exclusion from the public service, and Remzi Pachi, military commandant, to three years' imprisonment. The Government acquitted the American patriarch, who resigned as a protest against the inadequacy of the sentences and the sentence on four innocent Armenians. THE MESSINA DISASTER. ROME, Sept. 8: The Rope, spent, £40,000 beyond the subscriptions he received for the relief of the sufferers J)y the Messina earthquake. EPIDEMIC OF CHOLERA. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 8. There are 25 deaths from : cholera daily in St. Petersburg. There have been 57G9 victims of the epidemic during the year, 88 per cent, belonging to the working classes. Preventive inrculation has been applied on 53,102 cases. i

THE BARCELONA RIOTS

MADRID, ,Sept. 8

Fcrror, a Spanish anarchist, who was arrested at San Sebastian, is to Ite court-martialled on a charge of being the unseen director of the July riots at Barcelona. SPAIN IN MOROCCO. General Aguilcr-as has destroyed - the Riff positions .around Arkemem. The Moors made a splendid, resistance and lost heavily, but were unable to withstand the dash of the Spanish infantry, who advanced under cover of a heavy artiliei'v force.