HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12826, 10 June 1907, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

TJnitiJf Presa Awociation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. MEAT FOR THE ARMY. , LONDON, June 7. The War Office is inviting tenders till September lGth for 300,000 onepouud tins of presorvod beof and mutton, and 150,000 two-pound tins. A NEW OOPPEIt COMPANY. The Mt. Lyell Cornstalk Copper Company of Tasmania has boon registered with a capital of £150,000. MR KELR HARDIE. Mr Koir Hardie, the loader of the IndciKindcnt Labour Party in the. Imperial Parliament, is shortly visiting Australia to study the labour questions. NEW ZEALAND BOWLERS AT HOME. The London County team beat the Now Zealanders in a ono rink giune by i>2 to 15. THE MISHAP lU THE OROYA. Tlio Miltiados replaces the Oroya, which recently mot with a mishap, in the Australian service. THE NEW HEBRIDES. LONDON, June 8. It is sonii-officiully stated in connection with the recent negotiations between Great Britain and France over the Now Hebrides question that the question of an exchange of torritory did sot arise. GIFT TO CHARITIES. Mr William Waldorf Astor has given £10,000 to four London charities. [Mr Astor is a wealthy American who has become a British subject. He is the owner of the "Pall Mall Gazette" and the "Pall Mall Magazine."]