BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

PRINCE OF TECK ILL. (Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, Oct, 10.

H.Ii.H. Francis of Teck, brother of Queen Mary. is seriously ill at Balmoral with pleurisy. (Ho is now nearly 40 years of ago.) SUICIDES FN RUSSIA. Of 449 suicides in the Russian schools, thirteen per cent, are officially attributed to failure in examinations. SOCIALISM IN JAPAN. It is stated that a crusade is being initiated against socialists in Japan, following on the discovery of an alleged plot against the Emperor. SWIMMING. During tlie swimming season Tartakover won five clubs' challenge cupSj one outright, and also the quarter-mile handicap. All his winnings were from scratch. I THE HONDURAS AFFAIR. An offioial version of the Honduras trouble received at "Washington states that General Davi'la has succeeded General Bonilla in the Presidency, and that General Valadares is seizing Amauola and establishing his rule there with complete disregard of General Davila. The latter declares that ho intends to dislodge General Valadares. [lt was General Valadares, the commandant, who caused a stampede by ordering all Americans and British to be imprisoned, and who also caused a British Consul to be fired upon.] INDIANS IN SO LTH AFRICA. A son of Ghandi, the Indian 'j avryer, and 37 recently arrived Indians not possessed of registration certificates, ivere before the court for a breach of the regulations. Gliandi's son and eight others were fined £SO each, or three months' imprisonment. The rest were fined £'2s or sis weeks' imprisonment.

BILLIARDS. Stevenson, the billiard champion, writing ill " Sporting Life " says that the monotony of George Gray's hazard stroke is liable to prove its undoing as the public desire variety. Stevenson is unlikely to play Gray unless ha enters for the championship: Stevenson highly eulogised Lindrum. FROM DOMESDAY TO DOMESDAY. Received 12.10 a m , Oct. 12th. LONDON, Oct. 11. Earl de la Warr is selling the bulk of his Buckhurst estate, which lias beeu in the possession of tihe family since the Conquest. STRONG POLITICS IN BRAZIL. RIO JANEIRO, Oct 11. The Federal force is aiding the Opposition to overthrow Colonel Bettencount. Governor of the State of Amazonas, Brazil. A Federal flotilla, at the instance of the Opposition, bombarded Manaos. Firing censed at the instance of the Consuls and leading townspeople. President Pecanha ordered the usurpers to reinstate Colonel Bettencount,

"THE LONG ARM." NEW YORK. Oct. 11. A description of the suspects wanted in connection with the Los Angeles explosion has been cabled to Australia and India.