British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11754, 3 October 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Association—Telegraph—Copyright Received October 2, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, October 1. Lord Salisbury has gone to Beau-lieu,

France

An epidemic of diarrhoea is raging at Fralton, Portsmouth, conveyed by flies frequenting the city dust heaps. The Marylebone Town Council declined Andrew Carnegie's offer of £30,000 for a free library on the ground of the incidental expenses the acceptance would involve. O'Doherty, member for Donegal North, refused the United Irish League's request to resign because he attended the Coro-

nation;

A new clause in the Army contracts insists that frozen mutton supplied must be exclusively colonial.

The revenue for the quarter ended September is £20,455,000. The Customs contributed £8,390,000, excise £8,920,000,

and stamps £1,820,000.

The Queen Victoria Memorial Fund has reached £210,000.

In consequence of the Hon. A. J. Balfour's announcement a phenomenal rise has occurred in tlhe Cunaird shares.

PARIS, October 1

The French troops destroyed1 seventeen towns and plantations in the Ngounie district, French Congo, as a punishment for the natives disregarding the order to sell all their produce to concessionaries holding land.

Sixteen! natives were killed, and the remainder withdrew into the bush.

TOKIO, October 1

The typhoon drove the Japanese wai"ship Shikisihima ashore at the entrance to the Yokohama harbour.

PEKIN, October 1. Prince Chun was married to Yung-lu'» daughter, heir to the Chinese throne.