BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14484, 4 July 1911, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

CORONATION VISITORS. j Press Association—Bv Tel.—Copyright, j LONDON, July li. I Admiral Togo atuuded the Worcester training ship <jld boys' dinnef. General Nogi and Admiral Togo reviewed a hurriedly .summoned Boy Scouts parade afc llyde Park. The Colonial camp at Chelsea has been broken up. Some troopers are away spending a few weeks on furlough. Lord Cheylesmoro has issued an order praising the Colonials for their excellent behaviour, and the King is presenting them with photographs or the Coronation scenes. The overseas Parliamentarians and their wives are being entertained at Dublin by Lord Aberdeen, the Viceroy of Ireland. j KING GOES TO WINDSOR. i The Court has been removed to Windsor, where the King, in acknowledging the municipal welcome, said: "My earnest wish is to know and understand the legitimate interests and feelings of all classes of my subjects at Home and overseas." THE BOWRON CASKS. . Tiio case of Knight, indicted on a charge of conspiracy with John Bowron, of the leather firm, was again adjourned. A PROFITABLE BUSINESSBEAUTY MAKING. Mrs Helena Titus, complexion specialist, trading in London and Australia as the • Rubcnstein Company, sued Mrs Winterfeldt, a wealthy New York lady, for inducing an assistant to break a contract. The evidence showed that Mrs Titus paid the assistant 12s 6d a week. Defendant was charged £l5O a month by Mrs Titus. During Mrs Titus' visit to Australia and New Zealand the assistant accepted £250 a year ' from Mrs Winterfeldt. An accountant proved "that sal© of the Rubenstein .preparations at the London branch was £12,823 in eighteen months, and that the t-reatment foes were £10,905 in the same period. A verdict was given for defendant. FAST MOTORING. Bording, in an Italian automobile, did a mile in 31 seoondß at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, establishing a reoord. MYSTERIOUS ABDUCTION. NEW YORK, July 2. A daring abduction occurred in Central Park to-day. Six men, believed to be memberß of a kidnapping gang, jumped from a taxi, seized a girl, shot her male escort-, and dashed oi? before the police had time to The wounded man declines to give the girl's name. AN EARTHQUAKE SCARE. An earthquake occurred in Central California and Western Nevada. The damage was trivial, but a panic seized the citizens of San Francisco and Santa Rosa, who made a pell mell xusb from the large buildings. The San Francisco telegraph and telephone operators fled from their posts, andthe services were suspended until they realised that the danger was past. A lodging house inmate fell dead from fright. The . Judge, Jury and attorneys sitting in the State court in Carson City fled from the courthouse, fearing its collapse. Reno also experienced the shock. FIGHTING IN TIMOR. BERLIN, July 2. Advices from Batavia state that lading has occurred on the disputed frontier territory at Timor. The Portuguese occupied the district claimed by the Dutch. The latter withdrew their detachment, but subsequently sent detachments. ANOTHER SPY CAUGHT. Captain Lux, a Frenchman and conductor of "the Intelligence Bureau at Belfort, who has been in regular communication with several persons in Germany, has bsen sentenced at Leipzig to six years' confinement in a fortress for espionage.