British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11713, 18 August 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright

ST. PETERSBURG, August 15

At the Pope's request tba Czar has pardoned Ziercowici, Catholic Bishop of Vilna, sentenced to life-long banishment for propagating anti-Russian ideas in Poland, and converting Greeks to Roman Catholicsim, The Grand Duke of Pobiedonostozeff strongly disapproves of the clemency. OTTAWA, August. 15. The average of oats, wheat, and barley in Manitoba and Lower Canada is a hundred and fourteen million bushels. WASHINGTON, August 15. The National Geographical Society at Washington has engaged Borchgrevinck to take two sWjps on an Antarctic expedition, using reindeers and sleighs. He will probably start in the autumn of 1903. LONDON, August 15. Thousands arc visiting the Abbey daily. £3340 was paid" in *wo days. Colonel McWillianis entertained the Australian detachment at the Grand Hotel ■ prior to their departure. Lightning fired the Sixth Century Church at Swanscomb. The bells were melted by the fire,""and the Norman font destroyed. Immigration statistics show that there is an extraordinary increase of aliens settling in London. The will of Mackay, the Silver King, is proved. The estate is valued at ten millions sterling. Mr. Austen Chamberlain has been reelected unopposed. Obituary—G. F. Vernon, cricketer. SYDNEY, August 16. A fiim of butchers ati Oranga is arranging for a shipment of chimed meat from New Zealand. The captain and a portion of the crew of the KrimpeniLe*. have arrived. The captain states that the weather was so bad that for 48 hours prior to the disaster he was unable to take observations. The vessel crashed on the reef at two o'clock in the morning and was abandoned half an hour later. Terrific seas were bump;ing her badly and she was leaking freely. The crew remained alongside in the boats till daylight, and spent an anxious night. They landed next clay and were kindly treated by the natives. Everything was lost, including the ship's papers. MELBOURNE, August 16. Friction has arisen between Sir W. Lyne (Acting-Minister of Defence), and Major-General. Hutton1, through• the latter publishing a scheme for anilitary instruction in the schools throughout the Commonwealth,... without submitting it to < the Minister, who keenly resents; the pre-onatui-e publication. '