BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9910, 27 July 1910, Page 1

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

\. - ♦ United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. THE BOXING FATALITY, j LONDON, July 26. ' At Hie inquest on the boxer Johnson jt verdict of death from misadventure h-as returned. The, jury recommended tiadding the floors of boxing rings. I* THE LAKE COMO TRAGEDY. ' It is reported at Washington that Italy is Avithdrawing lier demand for the extradition of Charlton Porter, charged with the murder of his wife. He will bo committed to a lunatic Bsvlum. JACK THE RIPPER MURDERS. The man mentioned by Mr George Kebbell was visited by Dr Forbes Wifislow. Ho will make'a statement before the Bow Street Magistrate today that ho, was not connected with the " Ripper" murders, avid denying the mutilating of a woman, for. which he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. He will add that the nuthors of the outrage were hooligans, who attacked him. ; • „ (A cable message received in April 18 statedMr Kebbell, tho lawyer who defended " Jack the Ripper," the "NVliitechapel murderer, in a letter to the "Pall Mall Gazette,"'says.that he believes that the murderer died or poison while, undergoing ten years penal servitude. He was an Irishman, and was originally oducatod for the medical profession.) THE CANADIAN TARIFF. OTTAWA, July 26. Sir Wilfred Laurier, speaking at /jangan, remarked that the tariff must tradually be reduced. He foreshadowed the. appointment of a Tariff Commission like that of ISO 7, adding that its aim would be to go as far as was justifiable towards the Motherland's trade policy, though they could not expect, that Canada would accomplish m" one «r two. generations what took England eight centuries to effect.