BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12144, 23 September 1907, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association—Copyright.) Received Sept. 21, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Sept, 20. The Engineering and Machinery Exhibition has opened at Olyeipia. Sir Horace Xozer, Agent-General tor Queensland, in proposing success to the Exhibition, stated that Queensland hud purchased this year half-a-million worth of British manufactured machinery. A large crowd, including many leading cricketers, gave an enthusiast io .farewell to the Marylebone team at St. Pancras station. It is estimated that all classes cf Home railway securities depreciated over ten millions in a week. The Rev. John Flatley, Catholic curate at Clare Island, testifying before the Royal Commission on conjestion, attributed the poverty existing in Connemara to the credit system, placing the peasantry at the mercy of the local storekeeper, or " Gombeen Man," and enabling the latter to largely control the elections for County and District Councils and the Magistracy. ] BERLIN, Sept. 20. The Right. Hon. John Burns inspected the Bothel labour colony at Bielefeld, and the Krupp works. NEW YORK, Sept, 20. Seven arrests, including the architects, the builder, the contractor for furniture, and the ex-State Treasurer, have been made in connection with the Capitol of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg. It is stated that the building^ cost 13 million dollars, whereas its real value, with the contents, is only four million dollars. MONTE CARLO, Sept. 20. Godkl stated that his wife helped to strip Mrs. Levin of her money and jewels. She admitted bringing liqueur and drinking some with the victim. OTTAWA, Sept. 20. The Franoo-'Canadian commercial treaty has been signed. CHRISTIANA, Sept, 20.

Captain Isachsen, of the Norwegian polar expedition, found a letter, dated 23rd August, wherein Bruce announced that he was proceeding northwards instead of returning to headquarters. Captan Isachsen adds that two expeditions are wintering in the same vicinity with ample provisions.