BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14274, 13 August 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

lFress Aysodation-By Telegraph-Copyright CO UR.T-M A R Tl ALLED. LONDON, August 11. Lieutenant Allan SuU.r. of the i Royal Artillery, has been court-martial-lcd for publishing a pamphlet criticising irregularities in the army, GERMAN STUDENTS. , Sixty German students are. engaged in an educational lour through England. A similar tour through Germany will be made next year hy Eng- ■ lisli students. YACHTING. The Yacht Racing Association has decided that on time allowance the Culwalla is entitled to the Sayonara Cup. WORK OF THE BIBLE SOCIETY. The British and Foreign Bible So ciety distributed 6.620,024 Bibles. Testaments, and portions of the Bible during last year, including 1,500,000 in China, where ninety-nine per cent, were sold. A BRIEF WILL. The will of Sir G. Newnes. the founder of the "Strand Magazine," and other publications contained only twenty-four words. The estate was sworn at £174,153. THE BARONESS VAUGHAN. The French pap-rs announce that the Baroness Vaughan, the morganatic wife of the late King Leopold of Belgium, is about to marry a wealthy Frenchman named Emanuel Durieux. THE EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE. The ex-Empress Eugenie, mixing incognita, with the sightseers, revisited the Compeigne, which was the favourite residence of her husband and herself in the days of the last Empire. Sho viewed the pictures in the rooms the Princ Imperial used to occupy, and was deeply affected. CHINESE IN TIBET. It is reported that Chinese activity in Tibet is decreasing, aud it is doubtful whether the British troops will need to cross the frontier. TROUBLE IN GUATEMALA. The Guatemalans captured Generals Bomlla and Christmas and sixty men off the coast. THE CRIPPEN CASE. The legal formalities in the Crippen case aj-e completed, and he and the I girl Le Neve will possibly return from Ottawa to England after August loth. I BRITISH CAPITAL. Lords Hindlip, Clinton, and Dunmore have arrived at Winnipeg, and are exploring Western Canada to find a field for investments. DISTURBANCE IN SPAIN. Nineteen priests and 152 Carlists, arrested at San Sebastian, have been released. FEARFUL HURRICANE. A hurricane at Rcreslav, in Southern j Russia, razed thirteen windmills and killed five persons. Twenty-seven houses were struck hy lightning, and altogether damage was inflicted to the extent of £50,000. THE VENICE MURDER. Professor Eulenberg is daily hypnotising Fran Schoenbeck von Weber, | who was sentenced to seven years' im- | prisonment for complicity in the murJ der of her husband, but owing to j what was thought to be hopeless inj sanity was sent to an asylum, and now j has practihdly restored her to sanity. ! TERRA NOVA OVERDUE. j The Antarctic exploring ship Terra j Nova, is now twelve days overdue at Capetown, and some anxiety is felt. Captain Scott, who is the guest of Lord Gladstone, on being interviewed at Pretoria, said that the Terra Nova would be under canvas for most of the j voyage, and that, therefore, the date J of her arrival was uncertain. 1 Received 9.20 p.m.. August 12th | BALLOON PRACTICE. LONDON. August 12. German artillerymen liberated two balloons in the Baltic Sea, and destroyed both at a great height, a shell igniting one balloon immediately. OUTRAGE AND POLITICS. The speedy recovery of .lu-'ge Gaynor. Governor of New York, is exI nected. There are nianv suggestions ; regarding the next democratic candidate for iho lirosideiU'V. and the outrage on .lodge Gayunr is claimed as a | valuable political asset. ALLKGFJ) FRAUDS. WiJKam Wintemute has been arrested at Ner- York for fraudulently using the post office to promote mining ! schemes. Tt is stated that ho netted 'over 1.000.000 dollars, including 45.000 j dollars from English ladies of title.