BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

West Coast Times, 19 April 1911, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

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LONDONERS AND THE HOLIDAYS

LONDON, April 18. It was bright and dry for the holidays, and thousands watched the aeroplanes at Hcnd, on and elsewhere. SPANISH SHIPPING DISASTER. 31ADRU), April ‘lß.—The steamer San Fernando has sunk off Capo Finisterre, twenty one being drowned. SUCCESSFUL AUSTRALIAN SINGER LONDON, April, IS.— 3ladamo 3lary Conley the Australian singer met with success in the production of the 3lessiah by the Royal Choral Society at Albert Hall. ACCIDENT TO A 3IOTORIST. LONDON, April 18.—In the presence of 20,000 people at Brooklands, a motorist named Wilkinson met with a serious accident. His car was travelling at the rate of 90 miles an hour, when the clutch jammed, and he was unable to stop at the winning post. The car jumped forty feet, cutting away iron palings for that distance. Wilkinson was picked up in a critical state.

DROWNING ACCIDENT. LONDON, April 18.—Three Newcastle boys at 3litley Bay were overtaken by the tide and drowned in the presence of a great crowd. SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS. LONDON, April 18.—Sir H. Benson is presenting fourteen of Shakespeare’s plays. 3IR HEATON’S ILLNESS. LONDON, April 17. 3lr J. H. Heaton (the member for Canterbury), is weak but has slightly improved. MURDER AND ROBBERY; ST. PETERSBURG, April 17.—Two brothers named Delanin, representing a firm of Parisian jewellers, were murdered in a sleeping car between Baku and Moscow. The robbers shot the brothers and stole the valuables and jewellery and escaped in the darkness when the train stopped. A FERE. BERLIN, April 17.—Children playing with matches, started a fire in the village of Lindau, near Duderstadt. A peasant farmstead was destroyed. 3luch cattle and poultry were also lost owing to fires drying the wells and the hoses being insufficient to reach the stream.

the commercial and social life of our

THE TAX ON PETROL. LONDON, April 17.—A meeting of taxi-cab drivers protested at the proprietors seeking by an increase in the fares, to pass on the petrol tax. The drivers threaten to strike if any action is taken before the Government investigations are completed. They also demand daily wages in lieu of a percentage of the takings. THE POWERS AND MOROCCO. BERLIN, April 16.—The newspapers are mooting the expediency of bringing the Algericas Act up to date, alleging that it is based on the fiction that the Powers are able to count upon the Sultan’s real sovereignty. NORTHERN NIGERIAN RAILWAY. LAGOS, April 16.—Four hundred miles of railway connecting the Bare Niger with Kano has been opened in the heart of northern Nigeria. BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT. HELSINGFORS, Aprl 16.—Tho boy scout movement, which has made rapid headway, has been checked by the Russian authorities ordering the police to search its headquarters.

SETTLERS FOR CANADA. OTTAWA, April 17.—Canada expects 175,000 immigrants from Great. Britain this year. There were 112,000 last year. AMERICA AND JAPANESE. NEW YORK, April 17.—A speaker at a mass meeting held at San Francisco, under the auspices of the Asiatic Exclusion League, declared that unless Japanese immigration ceased, war would be the result.