BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 30 September 1910, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

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RIOT AT MINING CAMP. NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—There has been a riot at the Monarch mining camp in Colorado. Dynamite was used and there were fire outbreaks. One man was killed and many injured.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY. OTTAWA, September 28.—The Rev. Doctor Bryce, addressing the Royal Society, said that a diversity of languages was no drawback as Canada which was a great national unifier, was, as it were, the public school. Americans entering Canada were easily assimilated. :

AN UNDESIRABLE. \ LONDON, September 28.—Mr Wallace (Chairman of the London Se»sions) expressed surprise that one of tlie prisoners appearing before him had been deported from South -Africa ; to the Motherland, inasmuch as the dominion had not received English undesirables.

A LARGE FORTUNE, LONDON, September 28,—Robert •’’ Arthington died at Leeds in 1900 and his estate accumulated while his will •>-* was disentangled so that it has only * i now been distributed, £466,000 was ~,3 bequeathed to the Baptist Missionary. J Society and £373,000 to the London ; Missionary Society. His twenty first cousins divide £lll,OOO. . ,’ THE WELLINGTON MINE EXPLORED, v| LONDON, September 28,—An exploration party entered the Whitehaven mine and discovered the first group of bodies, but an obstruction < impeded their further progress. THE GERMAN SPY. LONDON, September 28.— Lieut. 1 - Helm was committed for trial on a jcharge of espionage at Portsmouth, j He was admitted to bail in £2OOO. * i JEWEL THIEVES ARRESTED. A ROME, September 28.—A man and;* a woman, accused of jewel and, hotel thefts, to the amount of £20,000, £ chiefly in France, have been arrested ■ at Milan. ‘ HINDOOS FINED. CAPETOWN, September 28. TfOfc| Hindoos have been fined £76 or nbfij, fq months imprisonment for being in possession of false permits, , f*

.- .ft? GOLD DISCOVERY. ’ ’ NEW YORK, September 28. The U latest placer gold discovery is Alaska, on Kenai river. _ 'ja JEWELS RECOVERED. •' "J VANCOUVER, September 28.—Tl»;J Countess of Antrim’s jewels, ■- were lost while travelling on the Can® adian-Pacific Railway, have, been nt<R| covered, but no details are given. , - iS MARRIAGE LICENSE REFUSIM VANCOUVER, September ,28..-;% Kurio Toda, son of a wealthy JapMHJj! cse, is to marry Ilayda Reed, a waiwm girl, but the authorities both of-Til® coma and Seattle have refused to . a marriage licenseCOMMERCIAL. v LONDON, Sept. 29.—Metal quotas! tions are:—Copper, forward, 65 15-18|ffi electrolytic, 67f j tin, forward, jUBHAj lead, 12 j.