The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-06-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

AND GERMANY IN AFRICA. Mr. C. F. Smith, her Mai(sty's Consul at Zanzibar, is expected to arrive shortly in Berlin, says the Times correspondent in that city, in ordes to negotiate with the Colonial Department of the Imperial Foreign Office for a final delimitation o! the frontier between the DritiAi and German --pheres of interest in East Africa. The district in r;oestion has already been aurveyed as far as Lake bjipe by Mr. Smith and Dr. Peters, and it is hopKI that the materials furroFhed by the two Commissioners to their respective Governments will enable a satisfactory understanding to be arrived at.  SENTENCE ON A FRENCH PASTOR At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, before he Common Serjeant, Jacques Massie, 42, late the pastor of the French Protestant Church, Soho, who was convicted at the May sessions of uttering a forged promissory note for the sum of £2lO, was Ir ught up for sentence. The prisoner was tried b,fare the Recorder.—Massis said nothing in mitigation of punishment.—The Common Serjeant said that he had received from the Recorder the sentence which he desired should be passed on the prisoner, namely, that he be imprisoned and kept at hard labour for eight months, the sentence to date from the first day of these sessions.  Zimmerman, the well-known American cyclist, eft England on Saturday for New York. The Parepa Rosa Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Music has been won by Reginald Brophy. On Saturday the roof of a building at Old MidIleton, Kent, collapsed. A man who was working inside was killed, his skull being crushed. The Rey. T. Scowby, of Bradford, has been appointed president of the Methodist New Connexion in succession to the Rev. J. C. Millburn.  The Nalpar4iso corn,ponaent or the New York Herald telegraphs that Maclaine Sarah Bernhardt has been robbed of jewels of the value of 300,000 francs.  There is a story now going the rounds which, if not true, is at least not ill-founded. An ingenious correspondent is said to have written to a paper devoted to wheeling,to ask for information as to the "Wagner cycle," and to ascertain whether it could be obtained with pneumatic tyres.—Globe. }1.11.11 the Duke of York has appointed the Hon. Derek William George Keppel to be an Equerry-in-Waiting. Be is the second son of thE seventh Earl of Alheniarle, P.C., and a younger brother of Viscount Bury, M.P. for Birkenhead. He is 30 years of age and was educated at Eton. The Northau:pton borough magistrates on Saturday had Before them the reinanded case of Alice Barrit. a shoe machinist, who is charged with attempted suicide by taking acetic acid. On May let her engagement with Dr. Aikman was broken off on the point ,of marriage, and the girl took poison in con equence. Dr-Aikman took poison about a fortnight afterwards. A large amount of interest was centredin the case. The doctor said he did not thinkthere would be a repetition, and the defendant was.discharged. Before premetion to the rank of corporal, a soldier has to be in possession of a third-chi•i, certificate of education, the examination for whin:, consists in writing to dictation from a hook easy words arranged for children of nine years of age, and, a pew inarithmetic suitable to children in *old Sahasis of ten years of age. Potion-constable Ilmwim O'Connell, of the Royal Irisfstbestabutaryi. While walking in the Phcenis Paz M Dobltob Maros Satterday night; was attacked by aft nwo, sod beaten in a swage manner. Hi, assailants4eft MM lying CM the road, and escaped His left leg sagsnirwers broken, and his left eye terribly injutod, fa. that his condition is critical. He is unable to identify his assailants. Dr. Hansen and the members of his expedition to the North Pole sailed from Christiana at half. past 12 on Saturday, on. board the steamer Pram. Large crowds of spectators lined the quays, and bid the explorers a hearty farewell. Just before nailing he despatched the following telegram to the Times: "We are just about to sail. Please grant me the onnortnnity of publicly expressing our warm lippreciation for all the generous sympathy which English people have displayed towards our expedition."  The Mohammedan festival, nbich opened on Sunday at Rangoon, was the oftsion of serious rioting owing to the refusal of the magistrate to allow the Moslems to slaughter a cow in the vicinity of the Ilindoo temple. The mob charged and fired upon the police,one of whom was mortally wotinded, ' while the magistrate and several others wire injured. Subsequently the lice charged and shot 20 of the rioters and wounded many ahem. Later on the Norfolk Regiment was called out, and the, rosin streets were cleared and occupied.