BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12593, 6 September 1905, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Piress Association—Copyright. Received September 5, 8.33 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, September 4. Th<j Czar, at Peteihof, banqueted tho Shah, whom ho highly complimented.

SHANGHAI, September 4

Thero aro great floods at Shanghai, and many villages have been decimated Hundreds have been drowned in the Wusung and Puting districts. MADRID, September 4. Over 35 were injured at Barcelona by r. bomb which was filled with nails.

PARIS, September 4

Owing to tho failure of the sardine fishery, the population of Brittany is on tho verge of famine. LONDON, September 4. After a tidal ware had passed Handside, the Morecambe ferry boat started, loaded with ten excursionists. These btcamo panicstriken, and the boat capsized, six being drowned. Tho battleship Dominion broke adrift, from her moorings at Portsmouth, and damaged the Royal yacht Alberta. She 'also smashed a private yacht, and did other damage before being secured. CAPETOWN, September 4.

.A party of Chinese attacked an Indian hat at Klemfontein and hacked tho inmates with knives, disembowling one, and injuring three others. Twenty havo been arrested.