BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 1 September 1908, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association—Copyiight.) V LONDON, August 30. The German Consul states that the torpedoer came into the Tyne owing to a breakdown.

Router states that the Japanese Government has decided to curtail expenditure by 20 millions sterling, 30 p?r cent being taken off the army 2 . .and 10 per cent off the navy estimates.

NEW YORK, August 30. After the Folsom ■cloud burst, a wall of water 8 feet high swept through a mining camp. Twenty-three bodies have

been recovered, but the fate of scores is uncertain.

James Keene, the well-known American sportsman, owing to the New York anti-gambling law:, is sending a second batch of yearlings to Newmarket.

A procession of 25,000 marched to the New York City Hall to welcome the Olympic athletes, each of whom was presented with a gold medal. Hayes, Carpenter, and Robbins received silver cuns. .

BERLIN, August 30. The Zeppelin fund has reached £150,----000.

There are 1500 delegates at the International Baptist Congress at Berlin, the object of which is the uniting of the European Baptists in one great union.

COPENHAGEN, August 30. The premature explosion of a shell during practice aboard the Danish cvuiser Helka, at Aarhus, killed five men and wounded several.

CALCUTTA, -August. 30. The chief Tinnevelly rioter has been sentenced to 7 years' transportation. Five others received five years' imprisonment.