BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10298, 1 November 1911, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Eleotrla Telegraph—Copyright. ("Received November 1, 10 a.m.) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. LONDON, October 31. At the inquest on the death of Gilks, on a charge of causing whoso death Mrs Coventry, wife of Captain Coventry, was recently arrested, tho jury'a verdict was that death was due to a blow, but that there was not sufficient evidence to show by wbom inflicts#, Mrs Coventry was remanded. She has now been committed for trial. AMERICAN RAILWAYS. A Washington message says that th* United States Supreme Court has de« cided that all railway equipment in fui ture shall be under the control of the United States Commerce Commission, The effeoi of the judgment will be to place the complete control of the railways in th© hands of the Commission. STRICKEN WITH BLINDNESS. Captain Conger, a well-known Canadian military man, was stricken with! blindness at Winnipeg. Greeting a friend at a club he collapsed. Ho nrH aware that blindness was coming. CHOLERA IN INDIA. A Calcutta message says that choleroi has broken out in the cantonment o{ the Royal Scots and the Lothian r«gi< ments at Benares. Eighteen cases have been reported, and fire death* have occurred in twenty-four hours. REVOLT OF PRISONERS. A St Petersburg message says thai) several criminals, attempting to escape from tho Borsov prison, at Minsk ? killed a warder, seized his. revolvers andi keys, and liberated 105 prisoners. They exchanged volleys with the warders, and two criminals and on© warden wero killed. The ringleaders have beetii put in irons. ELECTION LIBELS. Mr Looker-Lampson, M.P. for Ramsoy, has been awarded £IOOO damaged against a Peterborough citizen and thf "Hunts County News," a Liberal newspaper, far election libels. POLICE REVOLVERS. The London Metropolitan Polioe atfr thorities havo ordered 2000 Webley ten volvcrs for selected men. A DIVORCE CASE. In the Foster v. Foster and BeechaW case, divorce was granted with cost# against Beecham. The cross petition was abandoned. The hearing lasted eight days, and the newspapers printed columns of evidence daily. ASSISTED EMIGRATION. The Hon W. L. Baillieu, the Victor rian Minister of Public Works, in 3 letter to the "Times," says that it is significant that the Federal Labotii? Government spent more than any pre* vious Government in advertising th<| Commonwealth for British emigrants, Tho trade miions seemed to reoognisi that they were no longer justified iq their opposition to a vigorous emigre tion policy. If Australia made assisted emigration general, it would soon equal Canada.