BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1169, 27 April 1910, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGKArJI—-COPYRIGHT.) PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS. London, April 2C. Leading Australian artists in London are well represented at the Roy-tl Academy Exhibition. - ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA. Sir George Reid, speaking at a banquet given by members of the House of Commons, and referring to the Commonwealth's voluntary preference in favour of the Motherland said Englishmen coukl do something in return without awaiting the de" cision of political contests. They could show preference for Australian products (cheers). A BIG COMPANY. Ottawa, April 6. Ihe Canadian Collieries, Ltd., with a capital of £4,1)00,000, has been incorporated at Ottawa. It represents the Mackenzie and Mason interests, and acquires the Dunsmuir Collieries at Vancouver. (Received April 27, 9.30 a.m.) i SPUMOUS CHINA. London, April 20. The jury found Messrs Christie, Manson; and Woods,'the well known firm of auctioneers, guilty of negligence in the preparation" of a sale catalogue according to which Mr Charles Dickens was sold some alleged antique china which was spurious The plaintiffs (trustees for Mi-Dick-ens) failed to prove any monetary loss, and judgment was deferred. NEW GRAVING DOCK. Messrs Morrison and Mason, of Glasgow, have secured i\ contract for a graving dock at Portsmouth to cost one and a half million pounds. A NOBLE RESPONSE. . New York, April 26. The Protestant churches in the United States, in a week's special appeal for funds for home and foreign missions, aggregated £1,200,000. A HISTORIC DOCUMENT. London, April 2G. Mr William Blathwayt's correspondence, which was sold by auction at Sotheby's' Rooms for £8650, included William Perm's draft of the Pennsylvania grant, a document of great historic interest to America. ADVANCE OF WIRELESS. During the past six months 34,496 Transatlantic wireless telegrams have been exchanged, and to-day 116 British vessels are licensed to receive messages. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. - Paris, April 26. The French elections have discredited the anti-republican and revolutionary element, and have strengthened the position of proportional representation.