British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11740, 18 September 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright. Received September 17,, 9.2 a.m. LONDON; September 16. Parliamentary returns show the British national debt to be £768,443,486. The Governor of Newfoundland has* secured the services of the cruiser Colypso. The British steamer Mahsdale foundered at G.arfurn Island. The captain and 13 of the crew were drowned. Out of a million expended by the department controlled by the Military Director of Railways in South Africa., only £1.0,000 weni to foreigners. The Admiralty has ordered nine 25-knot torpedo destroyers from private builders. Many cricketers sold their bats, through the "Daily Express" for the benefit of Cricketers. W. G. Grace's fetched £50, Trumper's 42, .Raujitsinhji's £13, and Jessop's £8. Central 'Soutlh African raihray orders placed in England during the week include 104 coaches, ( 38 engines, and 250 steel coal trucks, each with a carrying capacity of 8000 pounds. Piggott has left London, and the services at the Ark of the Covenant at CUipham have been discontinued. Some doubts and murmurings exist amongst the Agapemonites. NEW YORK, September 16. Thirty-eight dead bodies were found in connection with the forest fires at Oregon and Washington. Many settlers are missing. The United States cruiser Panther, with 320 marines and six field pieces, has been ordered to Colon in connection with the Columbian revolution. A despatch received in New York from Lieut. Peary, the Arctio explorer, at Chateaux Bay, Labrador, states that the party is homeward bound, all well. „ BERLIN, September 16. A report dealing with the operations of the German East African Company shows they made no profit, excepting from the coinage monopoly. The prospects are not improving, though they received a subsidy of 4,800,000 marks.