BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10305, 9 November 1911, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

PUBLISHED AT 5 P.M.

* United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. (Received November 10 a.m.) RUN ON A LANK. LONDON, November 8

A run occurred on .several of the brunches of the National Penny Bank, but all demands were met. AN AI'MUD THIEL<\

On October 15 «• man named Deveue. described as an artist, who brandished a loaded revolver against the -police and was also armed with a dagger, was arrested in Molborn. He confessed that he attempted to .shoot the detectives after raiding a shop in Oxford Street. He has now been sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude for using' firearms against tho police.

THE LIBERTE POWDER SCANDAL. AIM. Maissim and Louppe, present and former heads of the Pont do Bois Ponder Factory, have both been charged before a Paris Commission of Inquiry into the Liberte powder scandal. PEACE TREATIES. A New York message says that an envoy to the Coronation declared in Mr Taft's presence, at a meeting at Cincinnati, that while, the Senate had not, ratified as yet peaco treaties with France and Britain, it was certain that it would he only a- brief time before the popular demand would overcome the senators' attitude. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. It is reported that a syndicate headed by the. Earl of Plymouth has purchased the Crystal . Palace for £220.000. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. Tho Right Hon Ailwyn Fellowes will preside at the departmental committee's inquiry into tho prevalence of loot and mouth disease. ILLICIT SPECULATION. Tho French Government has introdifcetl a Bill punishing with imprisonment for two months to two years and fines of £4O to £BOO merchants concerning provisions and merchandise by means of illicit speculation. THE NOBEL PRIZES. A Stockholm message says that the Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Madame Curie and that for physics to Professor Willi elm Wien, of Wurzburg. ALLEGED FRAUD. A Colombo message nr v ys that Williams, manager of the Dadvvell Company, has been arrested. It is alleged that £44,592 has been fraudulently lost in rubber speculations.