British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11727, 4 September 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, September 2. President Roosevelt, speaiking at Proctor, said Monroeism was not aggressive. It was necessary to enable America to develop peaceably. The doctrine would only be respected while backed by a first-dasd navy. It Avould be shameful if America idly boasted, and w-aa not prepared to back her words by~~d,eeds. LONDON,'September 2. Sir Thomas Lipton again competes in the America Cup. A new challenger, Shamrock. 111., will be designed by William Fife, and built at Denny's, of Dumbarton. At Athens rain and hail greatly damaged the Greek curranib crop, ■and it is unofficially estimated that one-third is ruined. Gavella, a foreign paperhanger at Newcross, London, MUed his wife and four children with a knife. Nance O'Neill produced "Madga" at the Addphi Theatre with fair siuccess. The King has appointed the Duke of Connaught Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Service Corps, to mark the corps' good work in South Africa. The Scotia, the vessel of the Scotch Antarctic expedition, intends to operate southwards from the Weddell Sea. Captain Coots has contributed £5000 towards the expedition!. * - NEW YORK, September 2. A company has been formed in New York, with a capital of a million dollars, for the purpose of compressing wine and spirits into tablets. The New York "Herald" states thai the formation of the Meat Trust has been postponed owing to President Roosevelt's attacks. ROME, September 2. Practically all the workmen in Florence, excepting the metal workers, have resumed work, and "the town has resumed its ordinary aspect. MOROCCO, September 2. Berber tribesmen attacked die town of Mequinez, and raided the cattle markets The Governor pacified them. It is rumoured that the attack was in connection with a revolutionary movement in favour of the Sultan's brother.