BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

West Coast Times, 25 June 1912, Page 3

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NEW ZEALANDER- FLEECED.

LONDON, June 23. Confidence men fleeced Mr. T. Jones, a New Zealander, of £6OO.

WOMEN DISPLACE MEN. BERLIN, June 23.—The Imperial Post Office is economising by substituting 8,600 women for men in subordinate positions. LUNATIC RUNS AMOK. ROME, June 23.—Cristoforra PonZ'liii, was placed in an asylum for n ordering his wife and son in 1910. He escaped and went to the village of Valmadonna and murdered his brother and tho latter’s wife and two children. Ponzoni then returned to the asylum. THE AGGRESSIVE LADIES. LONDON, June 23.—Pour members of the Irish Women’s Franchise League, were fined 10s or a month, fer window smashing at Dublin and they went to prison. DEATH IN THE STREETS. LONDON, June 23.—There were 14.254 persons injured in London streets in 1911, of whom 410 were killed, 2SB being duo to motor vehicles. BIG DIAMOND ROBBERY. LONDON, Juno 23—Diamonds and jewellery valued at £25,000 were stolen from Rlieirnold, a French diamond merchant, staying at the Richeli Palace Hotel, during his temporary abseence from his room. A reward of £2OOO is offered.

THE PRICKS OF CONSCIENCE. OTTAWA, June 21.

An indirect result of tho Titanic disaster is tho extraordinary amount of conscience money received by the Customs Department from people obliged to cross the Atlantic regularly. RECORD HIGH JUMP, LONDON, Juno 23.—The Canadian herse Confidence, made a world’s record jump at the horse show, clearing 7ft. s|in. WIRELESS CONVENTION. LONDON,-' Juno 23—The Wireless Convention of 150 delegates, representing 35 countries visited the Marconi works at Chelmsford. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE. LONDON, June 23. King George reviewed 15,000 members of St. John Ambulance Society nfc Windsor. Among those present were a number of oversea representatives. REVENGE THAT FAILED. FAILED. ROME, June 21.—A man bound alive in a wheelbarrow, was hurled into the sea at Savona and was drowned. A dynamite cartridge exploding did not injure him, but the surface was littered with dead fish. The affair is attributed to revenge) and there are no clues to the perpetrators

BRITISH TARIFF. LONDON, June 23—Mr. Robertson, replying to Mr. Peto denied the new Japanese tariff as modified by the Anglo-Japancso Treaty, had in-, jnnons effects on British trade as a whole. Though Britain’s cotton and woollen exports had declined other goods had more than correspondingly increased. HERO OF THE SOUTH. LONDON, June 23.—Captain Amundsen has been awarded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Livingstone gold medal. PRINCE TO THE RESCUE. BERLIN, June 22.—Prince Joachim, while cruising at Kiel, rescued the crew of an over-turned boat. COAST DEFENCE. HAGUE, Jnnc 22.—The Government have withdrawn the Coast Defence Bill, including the much-talked of fortifications at Flushing. PICTURES IN THE VATICAN. ROME, Juno 21.—The Pope witnessed at the Vatican a cinematograph representation inaugurated in the Campanile of St. Mark’s, Venice.