British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11738, 16 September 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Ascoriation— Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 14. Miss Ada Williamson, a New Zealander, has been appointed medical officer of the Isle of Wight County Asylum. Two deaths have occurred at Taunton from eating pies purchase 1 in Derby. A storm blew two workmen off the Tay Bridge, and both, were killed. The damage by the recent hailstorm in Kent is estimated at £100,000. A mass, of drifted hailstones nearly filled a cutting 40 yards long. 10 feet wide, and 6 ieet deep. ST. PETERSBURG, September 14. Russia intends stationing shallow-draught gunboats and torpedo-boats on the River Amur. A mob in Czestochowa, Russian Poland, under slight provocation wrecked the Jewish shops, wounding a dozen, and they stoned the troops. Two of the rioters were killed and five wounded. WASHINGTON, September 14. The Government are not. sanguine regarding the proposed reciprocity ti*eaty with Newfoundland, owing to the Senate's general attitude. The decision recently given in the Chicago Circuit Court, if upheld, will Have the effect of preventing a porner in grain. The lowa was got* off, and has arrived at Pahia. iSihe was not seriously damaged.