BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10537, 12 August 1912, Page 1

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press ABBooi*tion—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. TROUBLE IN THE SOUDAInL . LONDON, August 10. ' The Cairo correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette '* reports that an -expedition numbering 2500 is being organised to settle a Soudan trouble with the Annak and Guer tribes. SOLAR OBSERVATORY. Mr Duffield, of Adelaide, offers the Commonwealth a spectroheliograph, a pyrheliometer and' a Littrow spectrograph, which, with apparatus already accepted, will enable a solar observatory m Australia to participate in international research, completing the circle of observatories round the world. PERSIA. Britain has agreed to a further loan ♦o Persia to assist the Government to fdeal effectively with the situation in the south. BURIED TREASURE. Arthur Ostesby, a company promoter, |« bankrupt. Hfs assets include <JIO,OOO set down as his ebare in a treasure of eleven millions which Jesuits buried at Sacanbaya, Bolivia, in 1767. An expedition is now searching for the treasure. OLYMPIC STADIUM. BERLIN, Au 3 ust 10. An Olympic stadium is being built in ♦he middle of the Grunewald raceeourse. There will be 18,000 seats and ■landing room for 12,000. A GERMAN CRUISER. The cruiser Goeber, at her speed trials, developed thirty-two knots. ALLEGED MIRACLE. VANCOUVER, August 9. According to information from Saint Anne de Beaupre a cripple boy, named Paul Savard, eight years of age, has been healed, leaving his crutches at the shrine. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. OTTAWA, August 10. During the April-June period 175,341 aimigrants arrived in the dominion, inuding 53,343 from the United States.