British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11739, 17 September 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 15. The report of the Commissioner' of Prisons in Britain foreshadows a scheme of detention under special conditions of persons guilty of grave habitual crime. At a Jewish workers' meeting at Whitechapel, an announcement was made that an American trust, with a capital of six millions sterling was forming to capture the British clothing trade. Two French traders. Buret and Desamblane, sentenced in Nigeria for the murder of a British subject named Keyes, have been handed to the French authorities for re-trial at Senegal. MADRID, September 15. A gendarme went mad in the streets of Malaga, and killed seven and wounded five people with a rifle before his comrades killed him. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 15. The Czar warned a deputation of elders of Poltava, Karkhoff, and neighbouring districts against a repetition of the recent disturbances there, and assured them he would not leave real grievances unheeded. NEW YORK, September 15. Twenty persons perished from forest fires in the States of Oregon and Washington, and hundreds were rendered homeless. The damage amounts to many million dollars. OTTAWA, September 15. The English rifle team won the Palma trophy at Ottawa with the score of 1459 ; American team 1447, and Canadian 1373.