BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12345, 15 October 1909, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association —Copyright.)

LONDON, October 13. A conference of representatives of the London Borough Councils resolved that the meat supply of the metropolis is unsatisfactory, and asked the Government to relax the restrictions upon the importation of cattle for immediate slaughter.

The "Daily Telegraph's" Constantinople correspondent reports that the Porte has refused the Powers' demand for compensation for losses, arising out of the Adana massacres, alleging that the troubles constitute a case of force majeure.

The Philippine Cus'fcoms tariff came into operation on October 4th. The British Board of Trade has issued a text, with a preface drawing shippers' attention to the preference clauses.

Extraordinary disclosures have been made in connection with the examina.tion in bankruptcy of Miss Violet Charlesworth, whose tragic disappearance after a motor car accident, and subsequent tracking down by the police last year caused such a sensation.

Miss Charlesworth alleges that she had great expectations from several gentlemen, including £155,000 from Alexander McDonald, who was !last heard of in Melbourne. The official receiver, however, suggests that these gentlemen are mythical.

VIENNA,. October .13

Four man and three women were found to have been chloroformed and robbed in one compartment of the Vienna-Warsaw express.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 13

The Johnson-Ketchell fight is definitely fixed for Saturday next, at Colma. San Francisco.

HANOVER October 13

Captain Yon Hildebrand suicided at Hanover by throwing himself from a window on the eve on his wedding. Hildebrand was one of the principals in the famous deul of 1901, when he killed Lieutenant Blaskowitz on the eve of the latter's wedding.