British and Foreign.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11796, 2 December 1902, Page 5

British and Foreign.

Press Association— Telegraph—Copyright

Received December 1, 9.20 a,m

LONDON, November 30

Tho "St. James's Gazette" states that William Parker Owen, secretary of the Sunrise Gold -Mining Company of New Zealand and the Indian Glenrock Consolidated Compuny, has been arrested at Lisbon on a charge of embezzling several thcurancl. John Redmond) and Patrick O Brien have had an interview with Botha and North lasting an hour. The concentration camps in Orange Colony will at the end of the year be trans ferred to the colonial Government. AH will be empty except, those'at Springfontein and Brandfort, containing orphans, widows. a"-cd, and decrepit persons. °The Mullah bas returned the British store captured frota Colonel Swayne during tho fight, \accompanied with a message of defiance. The King of Portugal (spends the weeks end at Sandringham, He afterwards visits Lords Iveagh and Lansdowne, leaving England on the Bth December. A new board of directors of the Lyell Copper Company has been elected. They send William Rich., ex-manager of the Rio Tinto Angus mine, Spain, to examlae am report on the mine. Received December 1, 8.54 a.m. BERLIN, November 50. The Kaiser, in inaugurating the Hall of Fame at Geriitz; said that the present gen-eration-is less sensitive of its obligation for continuing the unification of the Fatherland, the freedom of the individual, and the conditional subordination of the whole. He wished the German people freedom of thought and religion; not freedom to govern badly at their own will. - ' The prosecution of the "Vorwaerts". for libel has commenced. The editor alleges that the statement respecting Krupp was absolutely true, and affirms that the Kaiseris prejudicing the case. A warrant has been issued for the arreat; of the German painter-Christian Allers, a resident of Capri, for offences he falsely attributed to Krupp'. Allers has disappeared. BOMBAY, November 30. An expedition has convinced' the Wazh:i.s* of the nudesirability of raiding British territory. It destroyed 59 towers and three villages?, captured 5600 cattle, 68 arms, 202 prisoners, and killed 25 men. Russian emissaries disguised as traders are assiduously plying the Gabul aristocracy and officials with.presents.