BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 30 December 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, December 27. It now transpires that members of tho Eaton Hall house party burgled Cholmondeley Castlo for fun. [It was cabled on Friday that a burglary had been committed at this castle, and that many valuable heirlooms and sporting trophies had been stolen from the seat of the Marquis gS Cholmopdeley.J

TOKIO, December 27. Tho tide of Japanese emigration is turning towards Brazil. ST. PETERSBURG, December 27. The Government has suppressed tho Polish School Society, at Warsaw, which had established seventy-eight schools, with 76,000 scholars. The ex-mcanbem of the Douma, who are on their trial in the Court, pleaded not guilty, while admitting a collective respondbiltiy for the Viborgi manifesto, and also declaring that it did not exceed tho constitutional limits.

HAMBURG, December 27. A ship, aptly named the Dismfector, is exclusively engaged here in fumigating vessels and killing rats by Professor Nocht's system.

BOMBAY, December 27. Two north-western traias at Lahore collided. Twenty persons, including four Europeans, were killed. The stationmaster has been arrested. ■

LONDON, December 27. Captain E. F. Gaunt, son of tho lato Mr. Justice Gauint, of Victoria, haa been appointed tee the command of the battleship Majestic. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress has circularised unions urging them to strive to abolish overtime, with a view to providing extended employment.

BRUSSELS, December 27. Loyson has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for bank robbery. The receivers of Loyson's booty received sentences of from three months to two years.

An authentic portrait of the famous Flemish painter Vandyck, which had been given to his sister, ia nun, was auctioned for fiourpeaiae amongst a lot of rubbish in the ck>nven.t in Walmunster, Flanders.

NEW YORK, December 27. Ten thousand of the poorer tenants in tho east end of New York refuse to pay their rents unless they are substantially reduced.

'The suicide is reported of Ernest Stadman. vice-president of tho J. C. Lyons' Building Company, New York, which has.failed for a million and a quarter sterling. Mr. Stadman's losses were ha-lj P a million. Hei committed suicide by. throwing himself under a subway train.

MADRID, December 27. The newspaper "Imparcial" urges King Alfonso to visit tho South American Republics.