British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11746, 24 September 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Presa Association—Telegraph—Copyright.

PARIS, September 22. Two Frenchmen, two guides, and three "porters fell over a precipice at Mount Blame. It is believed ail were killed.

M. Combes, in a conciliatory speech, explaining away M. Pelletan's speieches, emphasised the Republic's resolve to maintain flic most amicable relations with all the Powers.

M. Jaures, a well known French Socialist, in <a letter to an Italian friend, congratulated the Italian Socialists on retraining from opposition to the Triple Alliance, which acted as a check on Franco-Russian dreams.

LONDON, September 22. The King .and Queen lunch at the Guildhall on Octojber 2&th, andi attend a thanksgiving service at St. Paul's on the 26th. NEW YORK,, September 22. Winfield Stratton., of the Colorado Springs, left 13£ million dblla/rs to charity. SOFIA, September 22. Two bands <xf Bulgarian, insurgents came into collision near Castoria, and fought till the Turkish soldiers dispersed them. Seven insurgents were killed. LONDON, September 22. Lotrd Salisbury continues to improve. SYDNEY, September 23. The fire in the Corrimai colliery has been suppressed. The warship. Wadlarjooi has returned. She spent five days in the coi-al seas searching for the missing labour vessel Sybil, Avithout finding any trace of her.