BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 January 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association—Copyright.) PARIS, January 6. Enormous leakages of money are--re-volted in connection with flio soparaj'tion of Church and State. A senator- ! ial committee has been appointed to '■nmko inquiries inito the matter.

LONDON, January 6. General Booth has been, invited to send to Canada 25,000 navvies to work guaranteed for ten years at 10s. a day NEW YORK, January 6. " Tho trial, at Boiso City, Idaho", of J. Pettibone, one of. the members of the committee of the- Wester n Federation of Minera, for tho murder of Firank Stuen'enbarg, ex-Governor, of Idaho, resulted1 in his .acquittal.

-BRUSSELS,- January 6. Advice lias been received that explorers, in the employ of Rigan and Guzzenhoim's International Rubber Corporation, Rasai, Congo, had a severe encounter with cannibals armed with flintlocks. Twenty-five natives, including five of a party of porters, were 'killed. • A Belgian detachment fought the cannibals for a whole day, and the explorers retired1.

PRETORTIA, January 6. Tho expected introduction of the Gordon Stoba drill will solve tha Rand .labour problem, sine© a native working this instrument in five hours' -achieves as much as fifteen! coolies working for one day. :

SAN FRANCISCO. January 6. A hundred and fifty Japanese'leave Honolulu for Vancouver this Week. The steerage! accommodation on the Cana-dian-Australian' liners is booked six months ahead by Japanese from Honolulu, 1 50 leaving by each ship. . ■ 7: TOKIQ. January 6, ■ The Tokio-newspaper ''Ko-kuininshin-■bun" complains of this Cfcinesp. attitude and hints that, unless outstandinsr question* are arranged. Japan will b^forcsd to. inoholise 700,000 men.'

•■•■ CONSTANTINOPLE, January-6. The Ports thrice offpred to take the reform agents of Macedonia.'into its own service, but the Powers decline.