BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1128, 8 March 1910, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYBIGHT.] PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC. London, March 7. 1 maty College of Music Las appointed Mr Charles Schitsky to act as examiner in New Zealand this year. FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE. Many offers of hospitality are bemg made to visitors to participate in the Festival of Empire. Thirty patriotic societies in London are arranging a programme of entertainment. DRY DOCKS FOR DREADNOUGHTS. The Admiralty has decided to build a Dreadnought dry dock at Portemouth at a cost of one million. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE. Rome, March 7. Senator Faina has resigned the Presidency of the International Institute of Agriculture, owing to a disagreement with the other comnvittcemen. The Secretary-General ha 6 also resigned. A DISASTROUS SNOW-SLIDE. New York, March 7. Ninety-two persons in all were kil - ed in Roger's Pass, where the treat enow-elide occurred. (Received March 8, 10.35 a.m.) FATAL INFLUENZA. London, March 7. There has been a recrudescence of influenza in London, and 125 deaths have occurred during the last three weeks, being 38 above those of tho previous three weeks. RAILWAY PILFERINGS. The Times is publishing a series of letters from Dr. George Ernest Morrison, its Pekin correspondent, who i.journeying across China and Turk >stan. Dr. Morrison states that the management of the Pekin-Hankan railway will have to contend with the pilfering of 60,000 bolts monthly and 10,000 plates yearly. A SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL. The newspaper Economist cays it is evident that the Admiralty is convinced of the superiority of oil fuel for certain purposes. The difficulty is the necessity of depending on foreign sources for it. The British Empire produces only 8 per cent_- of the world's petroleum. Burmah, India, Borneo, Canada, Trinidad and the Barbadoes arc all capable of immense future yields, and in Australia and New Zealand, if accounts are true, there is enough to keep Britain fully supplied. Australasia's suiwly is too far away to be efficient for British industrial purposes, but it is just what is needed for marine purposes. It is absolutely necessary to be able to replenish storage tanks from sources under our control, adds the Economist. TWO BANK ROBBERS ARRESTED have been arrested in London for blowing up the safe of a bank at Liege, in Belgium, and stealing £9000 in bonds. KING EDWARD'S HOSPITAL. King Edward's Hospital fund receipts for 1909, including additions to capital, amount to £258,926, and expenditure £153,000. The total distributed in thirteen years was £!.-• 134,916. GRAND OPERA. The Daily Express says that Messrs Beocham and Quinlan, producers of the grand opera, "F.'r;lra," at Covent Garden Opera House, propose a season's opera, in Australasia, America, and South Africa. They are sending a representative to Australia to arrange, co-operation with a local impresario. NOT GENUINE. Berlin, March 7. Experts have pronounced the famous Japanese collection in the SaxeWeimar museum as largely fraudulent. The Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar has therefore ordered the collection to be sold by auction to fetch what it can. THIS EARTH IS SO THICK. New York, March 7. The United States Geodetic Survey Department announces that the equitorial radius of the earth is 6,378,00 feet, this measurement being exact to within six feet. (Received March 8, 10.40 a.m.) CHINESE PAINTINGS. 'London, March 7. The British Museum, for the sum of £9000, has purchased a remarkable collection of Chinese paintings executed from the eighth .to the eighteenth centuries. A REVOLUTIONARY. Tchaikowski, who is knoAvn in England and America, is being tried in Camera, at St. Petersburg, for his revolutionary propaganda in many parts of Russia, and for a speech in Finland advocating the assassination of the Czar. SENT TO AN ASYLUM. Paris, Marcff 7. Enddsi, an Algerian clerk who wounded General Verand in Paris in mistake for the Minister of War, has been sent to an asylum. A BID FOR "FREEDOM. Madrid, March; 7. Forty prisoners at Cartegena siezed and disarmed the sleeping warders and attempted to escape. They were fired on by the troops and subsequently overawed. PRIESTS AND A BO JIB. A bomb was thrown into a diningroom where priests were at dinner ■celebrating; the clerical victories at the municipal election at Noceda, in Spain. Two priests were killed. GERMANY AND SOCIALISTS. Berlin, March 7. A franchise demonstration took place at Treptow. Between 50,000 and 100,000 persons marched to the Tiergarten, singing the "Marseillaise," and unfurled a revolutionary ensign on the Reichstag 6teps. The crowd dispersed when the mounted police charged up the steps. The mounted police charged the crowd, discharging their carbines; and the police used revolvers and sabres. Twlenty-five of the demonstrators were wounded. There are now 28,000 troops confined in the barracks in ca6e of emergencies.