British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11737, 15 September 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Association—Telegraph.—Copyright. '■LONDON, September 12. Hie Imperial Loid .Storage Supply Company propose to acquire the South Africau-Au-'jtraii'ian^ Cold Storage Company for £i,650,000. The Imperial Company -will increase the capital to £2,000,000, and secure subscriptions of £100,000 additional capital. Mr D. B. Dcv Graaf, managing director of the South African Cold Storage Company, joins the Board, and Mr J. K. Stephenson, general manager of the original company, become? general manager of the* new combination. Mi- J. H. Harris, formerly in the Melbourne office of John Cook and Co., has been appointed assistant manager. Serious; disturbances (have occurred at Bethsedo quarry. Lord Penrhyn declines to meet a deputation owing to their behaviour towards the workers. British tobacconists state that the American Tobacco Trust lost a million and a half sterling in a futile attempt to capture the British market. - An Army order abolishes roll -calls except at reveille, and parades on Sundays except church parades; replaces regimental garrison guards by police; permits smoking in streets whenever off duty; minimises kit inspection ; aliiows a definite period for leisure daily ; transfers cool fatigues for defaulters. The Welsh miners sent £1000. to the Pennsylvania strikers. Holmes started to swim from Dover to Calais, but abandoned the attempt after two hours, owing to squally weather coming on. Madame Isaceseen swam the Danube from Melk to Vienna in 12 1/3 hours. . The cruiser Lapwing captured three dhows in the Persiaa Gulf. It is officiary stated in Johannesburg that £3,000,000 have been allotted for compensation and charged to the Imperial Exchequer, also £2,000,000 for compensation to British subjects, natives, and foreigners who maintained neutrality. BERLIN, September 12. The Kaiser has ordered the establishment of a, special sea transport department in connection with the Cabinet of Naval Defence. SYDNEY, September 13. The Wakatipu, when 50 males south of Capo Everard, experienced a fall of chocolate mud. . The vessel was covered from stem to stem with the matter.