BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9917, 4 August 1910, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Blcctrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 4, 8.30 a.m.) AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT. LONDON. August 3. Tho Right Hon A. Akers-Douglas, M.P., has joined tho London directorate of tho Australian Mutual Provident Society, in place of Lord Jersey, who has resigned, owing to ill-health. (Received August 4, 9.5, a.m.) REBELS PUNISHED. LONDON, August 3. Seventeen rebels have been executed and twenty imprisoned as the outcome of the recent rising in Honduras. TREASURE TROVE. A navvy at Fontenoy-sous-Bois, a town on the Seine, unearthed three vases, containing gold coins to tho value of £BOOO. It is supposed that they were hidden during the FrancoGerman war. MINING ROYALTIES. Tho Mineral -Separation Company is suing tho Zinc Corporation for tho payment of royalties on nil material treated at Broken Hill since March 19. TEMPERANCE IN THE INDIAN ARMY. The Royal Army Temperance Association. states that 42 per cent of the white soldiers in India have taken the pledge. ENGINEERING FEAT. American • engineers are moving a church tower at Bbcholt, in Westphalia, thirty feet. Its weight is 2(00 tons. REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. A New York message says that Wider, the cashier of tho Russo-Chin-ese Bank, who robbed his employers and their customers of £120,000, pic axled guilty, and will be sentenced 011 Wednesday.