BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 31 August 1908, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association—Copyright.) - LONDON, August 28. King Edward lunched with M. Isvolsky at Karlsbad.

The English hop crop is reported as being of maerniiicent quality. Thomas Rico Reed, a notorious safebreaker., has been sentenced to 14 year-*' penal servitude at Glasgow. A fire in the main shaft of the ShawCield mine, Lanarkshire, demolished the piihead framework and buildings, 80 of the miners escaped by other shafts. 'NEW YORK, August 28. Governor Forfc, of New Jersey, threatens to send the militia to enforce the Sunday Closing Act at Atlantic City.

It has now been ascertained that the late Russell Sage's fortune is £12,----800,000. '

■ 20,000 persons are homeless at Augusta, Georgia, in consequence of the flood. Many are sleeping in the branches of trees.

Sportsmen are strenuously opposing the re-election of Mr Hughes as Governor of New York State. Mr Hughes recently waited an hour in a grandstand near Saratoga, the competitors in ft 1 rotting match declining to race until ho withdrew.

ROME, August 28. The committee of ih? Dante celebration?, at Ravenna invited King Emmanuel and the Pope tT participate. Tho Popo subscribed £400 to ihe organisation fund, and sends a representative.

LONDON, August 28. I Herr Bobel, in a letter to the editor of*the British Labour leader, emphasises that British and German workers arc of one mind in favour of ueaco, and that the vast majority of Germans are not thinking., of'war with Britain. He urges the Labour Party to abandon the proposed deputation to Germany, as it might bo misinterp-eted. and look as if Britain were afraid of Germany. ST. PETERSBURG, - August 28. r A. higher court-martial at St. Petersburg confirmed the sentence of death .by strangulation by a court-' .martial at Niklaioosk uixm eight* Japanese for wounding' Russian soldiers they were conveying to "prison. ■*"