BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1106, 10 February 1910, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

ST ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT, j - Eeer press association.] j THE WARATAH ENQUIRY. ! London, February 9. I Hie Board ol Trade states that the inquiry m connection with the miss- 1 mg Waratah will .not be held for ' some time. The Board wish the in- ' v'estigation to be exhaustive as possi- ! ble, and much evidence will have to • be obtained in Australia and South ! Africa. BIG BULGARIAN LOAN. A Bulgarian loan of £4,960,000 sterling, carrying 4} per cent., has been issued in London and on the Continent at 91. It has been largely oversubscribed. TURKEY WANTS A BRITISH ADMIRAL. Turkey baa appealed to Britain for the services of an Admiral to succeed Admiral Gamble. THE KING OF SWEDEN. Stockholm, February 9. ?■ 'Die King of Sweden is progressing excellently from his operation for appendicitis. TYPHOID IN CANADA. Ottawa, February 9. There have been 95 cases of typhoid in Toronto during the past five weeks. The epidemic in 'Montreal is now under control. (Beceived February 10, 8.45 a.m.) Mil LOUIS NATHAN'S ESTATE. London, 'February 9. The estate of Mr Louis Arthur Nathan has been valued at £57,966. [Air Nathan, who died in London on December 26, was bom at Launceston, Tasmania, and was educated in London. When a young man ho came out to Auckland and was engaged in business there for many years. Ho started in business in London as a New Zealand merchant at Dashwood House, Old Broad street, from which he i-otired in 1905. He was a director ot the New Zealand and River Plate Land Mortgage Co. In 1891, he married Stella, daughter of the laic Mr Moses Joseph, of London, and lormerly of Sydney, who survives hiiu.| LONDON MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. Brisk preparations arc being made by the London County Council for the municipal elections in. March, when a great struggle- is foreshadowed. KILLED BY A LANDSLIDE. London, February 9. A landslide of 500 tons demolished three houses at West Wyla-m, Tyneside. Three women were killed and nine injured. EMIGRANT LADS. il 'J- 'J'avernef, Agent-General lor Victoria, has chosen a dozen respectable lads, aged 16 and 18, from nominations of the Stratford Emigration Office, for a year's training on Victorian farms. They are mostly shop boys and factory hands. SHIPPING PROFITS. The profits of the Hamburg-Ameri-can Shipping Company for 1909 amounted to £1.600,000. THE PARRAMATTA LAUNCHED. The first of Australia's torpedo destroyers, the Parramatta, has been launched. The wife of Premier Asquith performed the ceremony.

TROPICA 1, AUSTRALIA. Professor Gregory, late of Melijoimio LiJin-er.sity read a. paper before the. Geographical Society on the geographical conditions controlling Ausdevelopment. His conviction is that there i 6 no region in tropical Australia which Europeans could not colonise. He staled that it would bo possible to tell in twenty years whether the colonisation of' the tropical territory by whites would be practicable within a reasonable time. If not, coloured races might be admitted under stringent, regulations confining them to this area. DOLLARS AND A TITLE. During the coming season, Guy -Montagu Finch-Hattoii. Account Maidstone, is to be married to Mice Margaretta Drexel, daughter of MiAnthony Drexol, one of America's foremost bankers.