British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11733, 10 September 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright Received September 9, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, September 8. The Hons. W. P. Reeves, A. J. Cadman, Sir John Cockburn, Sir W. Kennaway, Colonels Cradoek and Porter, representativea of the Colonial Office, and many friends farewelled 'Mr Seddon at Paddington Station. A crowd at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, prevented the removal of a small-pox patient, and stoned the police, injuring several. The Riot Act was read, and many arrests -were made. The cruiser Retribution has been ordered to Bridgetown.

Obituaries: Sir Frederick Abel, director of the—lmperial' Institute, aged 76; and Philip James Bailey, author of the poem "Feetus," aged 86.

In the quarter-mile swimming match at the Radcliffe Baths, Billington beat Read, of Sydney, by 30 yards. Time, smin. 35sec. Three hundred and seventeen striking colliers at Doncaster were fined £6 each for leaving work without notice. A meeting of Jamaici sugar planters passed a resolution condemning Britain's neglect of the West Indies and asking for federation with Canada. , , NEW YORK, Septembers./ The Hon. Sir Robert Bond, Premier of Newfoundland, is on a visit to Washington, arranging for a reciprocity treaty between Newfoundland and America. Bryan's paper declares that President Roosevelt's trust utterances aye puerile, merely apologising for illegal corporations instead of denouncing them. THURSDAY ISLAND, Sept. 9. The Duke of Sutherland has arrived, and having reported a case of Asiatic cholera «n board, has been quarantined.