BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14210, 26 May 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Stress Association-By Telegraph-Copyright EXCHANGE OF FLAGS. LONDON, May 24.Sandgate and Eppiug schools have exchanged flags with their Australian namesakes. MURDER OF AN OFFICER. Natives in the French Congo murdered Lieutenant Boyd Alexander while he was on a hunting and natural history expedition. Lieutenant Alexander was killed on 3rd April at Nyer, eastwards of Abeshr, in Wadia, a centre of Senussi activity, and the scene of murders of several explorers, including Vogel in 1856, Beurmann in 1861, and recently a fanatical attack on the French, who retaliated by chastising the natives on 7th April. NICARAGUAN REBELLION. Tho.Niearaguan gunboat Venus sank j the revolutionary vessel Omottope. A hundred rebels were drowned. Despite the warning of the United States, fighting at Bluefields is probable, and the British cruiser Scylla has sailed for that place. GERMAN VISITOR TO AUSTRALIA. Herr Heinken, chairman of the North German Lloyds is leaving on a visit to the chief Australian ports to study trade requirements. FORGED PICTURES. The authorities have discovered that two paintings by Rembrandt, one by Murillo, and several other pictures in the Hermitage gallery at St. Petersburg, have been replaced by clever forgeries. Great consternation has been caused particularly as M. Lehmann, one of the Directors of the gallery, has just been convicted of replacing the Imperial jewels with imitations. KING ALFONSO. King Alfonso reached Madrid yesterday. RECROWNING A STATUE. The Archbishop of St. Petersburg, eight Polish bishops, thousands of priests and half a million pilgrims assisted at the ceremony of recrowning the famous statue of the Virgin in ' Pauline Convent at Czenstochowa winch was robbed by thieves last year or a hundred thousand pounds' worth of jewels. The Pope presented a crown valued at £SOOO. FIERCE FIGHTING. Tlie Nicaraguan forces under Lara are fiercely attacking tho provisional Government's army under Tarada, which is entrenched behind Bluefields. The cruiser Venus is landing 500 troops northwards of Bluefields to reinforce Lara. COMMISSION ON MINES. King George has approved of the reconstitution of the Royal Commission on mines. Sir Henry Cunynghame is to be chairman. The commission will inquire into the health and safety of persons employed in metalliferous mines and quarries. "FOR HEROISM." ~ Tlie King Edward medal has been conferred on Mr Evan Owen, under manager. Mr Edward Davies, fireman, and Dr Turner, for heroism and daring in connection with the explosion at Darrow colliery, Wales, in October last. All were severely affected by j noxious gas. OPPOSED TO FOREIGNERS. | Renter reports that anti-foreign feel- ! inn is widoly preached with the connivance of the officials of the Changsha district, who are anxious to divert attention from their own shortcomings, j Received 0.30 rj.m.. May 25th. PEACE OF THE WORLD. j The president of the Nobel Committee at Christiania accepts "Le Matin's " statement of the 22nd inst. as all the more pronnWe as the Kaiser ' had just met President Roosevelt at . and when Mr Roosevelt was at Christiania ho uttered the same idea. The new point is most prominent, and statesmen are seriously discussing the question. The difficulties are many and | great, but the statesmen solving the I problem in practical form would earn I a greater name in history than tho! founders of great States.

MARRIAGES AND BIRTHS. The Registrar-General's report for 1909 shows a decrease- in the rate of marriages and the lowest birth rate on record, namely 25.6. THE BOMB OUTRAGE. There are indicatons that when the premature explosion occurred Taborelli was on the way to the Madrid railway station hoping to meet King Alfonso. The public were greatly shocked. Various chemicals and two infernal machines were discovered at Taborelli's lodgings. Many anarchists have been arrested, but there is no clue to any