BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12213, 4 May 1909, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Association—Copyright 1

LONDON, May 2.

The body of a man dressed in a woman's ball costume, and manacled, has been washed ashore at Penzance. It has been identified as that of D. Platen, who is believed to have been an actor.

The Duke of Norfolk has sold the Holbeins picture of Christina, Duchnss of Milan, for £65,000. Some members of an international gang of thieves bore dthrough the ceiling of a jeweller's shop at Hamburg, and stole gold and jewels valued at £200,000. BERLIN, May 2. Six more German docks suitable for taking Dreadnoughts, will be completed in 1910. PARIS, May 2. May Day in France and Belgium pass-: ed off .quietly. The cessation of work was widespread, but not general., 21,000 people participated in the demonstrations at Paris, which were marked by occasional disorder. (Last year the May Day demonstrations in France were marked by serious riots.)' NEW YORK, May 2. The waters and Piecre Oil Company has paid £60,000 to the State of Texas in settlement of penalties for violating the Anti-Trust Laws of the United States.

Some Italians, living in a tenement house in New York, which was occupied by 20 Italian families, refused the Black Hand Society's demands for a thousand dollars.

The Black Ha,nds thereupon fired the house, eight persons being burnt to death, including five children.