BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12562, 15 July 1910, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association—Copyright.;

LONDON, July 13.

A Royal Commission recommends that Ihe Grown continue to appoint Magistrates, with the assistance; of a county committee for selection. The Commission also recommends that workingmen should be eligible. The Census Bill for Ireland, which includes provision for the return of religious statistics, has passed through Committee in the House of Lords without discussion.

The Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of ten and a bonus of two per centum, and has set aside £10,000 towards new bank premises in the colonies. £20,000 has been added ho the reserve, and £39,000 carried forward.

At the King's request, Colonel Davies was presented to His Majesty at Aldershot. The King and Queen and the Duke of Con naught asked him many questions about the New Zealand forces.

The Civil Service estimates give the cost of King Edward* funeral at £40,----*soo.

It is expected that Vice-admiral Sir Percy Scott will succeed Admiral Poore, who is now on the Australian station.

Lloyd's report that the German steamer Attika is a total loss through' a volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean. The crew landed safiely at Oran, in Algeria. Lord Stratheona has given £10,000 to the Aberdeen University for a chair on agriculture. ■ CAPETOWN, July 13. The South African Cricket Association has resolved : —" The refusal to send a team to Australia without' a -guaranl teo from tho Board of Control .is unalterable, unless the conditions change." General Louis Botha, in the course of a speech, expressed the hope that mineowners would encourage the immigration of whites, which would mean ■fewer native workers in the mines. The repatriation of the Chinese was the best tiling ever done in the Transvaal. He paid a tribute to Dr, Jameson's free- j dom from racial influence. HONG KONG, July 13. Chinese pirates stormed' and captured a Portuguese military post oil the Isi land of Colowan, despite the fire of the Portuguese gunboat, which inflicted heavy losses on them. BERLIN, July 13. A greengrocer at Helmstait, in Brunswick, shot his wife and two children -dead, and se.verly injured three other children; He then suicided. Poverty was the reason of the crime. NEW YORK, July 13. It is reported that President Taft is iirging W. Loeb, secretary to the President, to become a candidate for the Governorship of New York State. His acquiescence is considered doubtful.