BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

West Coast Times, 18 June 1912, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.. HUNGARIAN POLITICS. VIENNA, June 17.—The Hungarian House of jfagrates adopted the Army Bill by 174 votes to 23. Count Tiza ventured into the streets at Budapest and was badly mobbed. The police rescued him. NEW PORTUGUESE CABINET’. LISBON, June 17— Duartelete formed a Cabinet. Signor Casconcellos takes Foreign Affairs, and Colonel Bareto, War. FATAH RAILWAY SMASH. STOCKHOLM, June 16.—Tlie night express from Malmo to Stockholm collided with a goods train at Malmslactt station, Linkoping, through a mistake in signalling. Tht sleeping carriages were wrecked and the others badly damaged. Eighteen were killed and sixteen injured. BALLOON ALIGHTS ON A MOUNTAIN. BERNE, June 16.—A military balloon, which successfully alighted on Mount Pilatns, was packed and drawn by sledges down the rocky slopes to Lucerne. EXCLUSION OF ASIATICS. CAPETOWN, Juno 16.—Mr. Fichardt gave notice of amendments to the Immigration Bill, prohibiting Asiatics. He also advocates their deportation with the compensation of all Asiatics now in South Africa. CHANGE IN THE CABINET. LONDON, June 16.—Mr. Henry W. Massingham, writing in the Nation, deplores the' changes in the Cabinet, which, he declares, have weakened the advanced Radical wing and strengthened the Moderate Imperialist Liberals. COLORADO RIVER IN FLOOD. NEW YORK, June 16.—'The Colorado river is overflowing in all directions. Many villages arc inundated and homes are being abandoned. Rescue boats have been sent __ t RECORD PRICE FOB CATTLE. NEW YORK, Juno 16.—Cattle at Chicago are selling at the highest prices on record. BRITISH E3IIGRATION. LONDON, June 16.—There were 261,809 emigrants from Britain in 1911, of whom 210,000 went to British possessions. Those to Australia and New Zealand increased by 35,000. SLEEPING SICKNESS. LONDON, June 16.—The Sleeping Sickness Commission has proved the tsetse fly, known as glosina raorsitans, is the carrier, not the glosina palpalis. The significance is found in the fact that while the palpalis is frequently limited to one region, the morsitans is widespread, and therefore difficult to exterminate. “MOTOR HOGS” PUNISHED. BRUSSELS, June 16.—Sir Francis Younghushand has been awarded £1,400 damages against the owner of » mator car, for running over him at the Spa last year. The driver was also fined and sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment. DECREASE IN POPULATION. BERLIN, June 16.—Prussia and Bavaria showed a falling off in population for 1911 of over 100,000. TROUBLE OVER A PICTURE. BERLIN, June 17.—The Government is organising an enquiry into the reasons of the controversy' proceeding over the purchase by the Kaiser from the Frederick Museum, of Undergoes “Adoration of the Magi” for £40,000. The picture was sold by public auction at Madrid, but the Spanish Government declined to allow it to bo removed. WELL-MERITED SENTENCE BERLIN, June 16.—Koryciorz Las been sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude for putting bombs and incriminating letters in Kozot’s house an J suggesting that Kozot was a member of a secret society at Cracow, who planned the bomb outrage on the Kaiser’s train on November 26th 1910. THE INDIAN CAPITAL. LONDON, June 16—The Hon. E. Montagu, Under-Secretary T for India, states that the Indian Government’s provisional estimate of the cost of the new capital at Delhi was £4,000,000. EFFECTS OP THE INSURANCE BILL. LONDON, June 16.—Members of the small unregistered friendly societies in Kent, believing the Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George is likely to confiscate their funds, have decided to divide the capital amongst themselves.