BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1288, 14 September 1910, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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PEE PBBBB ABBOOIATIOH. JOURNALISTS HONOURED.

London, September 13. A civic welcombe was tendered, to the journalists at tb.u Guildhall. There was a large attendance.

Tho Hon. Harry Lawson, who presided, addressed the Journalists' Conference. He dwelt on the Imperial scope tending to unity throughout tin; Empire. Cheapness of communication was necessary to that end. He emphasised the growing demand for a direct British cable across the Atlantic, and said the British Post Office must respond to the requirements of the Empire. Mr John Mitchell, or Dundee, was elected President for the ensuing year.

The honorary secretaries for overseas elected 'included Mr Douglas (editor of the New Zealand Herald). The oversea Vice-Presidents include Mr \Y. H. Triggs (editor or' the Christchurch Press). (Received September 14, 9.45 a.m.) London, September 13. The King cordially thanked the Journalists" Conference for Saturday's message -expressing loyalty. The chief .subject of to-day's discussion related to post office anomalities. FIGHT PICTURES. The films of the Reno tight were shown at the National Sporting Club, London. The Times states that the pictures represent rather a dull fight, not like the word-painting thereof. The cinematograph omits all the adjectives. There was much more wrestling than boxing. It was a very harmless show, and anybody \dio would be demoralised by seeing it would lose all his morality if he saw a cab accident. L'ROCURERS IMPRISONED. Aklo Cellis and Alexander Berard, charged with procuring girls in Ne\v Zealand, were sentenced to six months , imprisonment, and are then to be deported. CANADIAN LABOUR PAitTY. Ottawa, September 12. lhe Labour Congress at Fort William will discuss the formation of a Canadian Labour Party. THIi KING AND THE CANADIANS Earl Grey, Governor-General, has received from the King the following, message: "1 have had the pleasure of receiving to-day at Balmoral a representative detachniejnt of the Queen's Own Rifles, of Canada, and hearing of their successful work at the manoeuvres. The spirit thus shown by the Dominion is a good augury of the future of the Imperial army. - "' King George, inspecting a detachment of Canadian Rifles at Barmoral, trusted their good example in participating in the manoeuvres in the Motherland would be followed by many regiments in other Dominions m future. (Received Sept. 14, y.45 a.m.) THEATRICAL ENTERPRISE. London, September I'd. Sir Rupert Clarke and Mr Meynell have arranged to produce "The Chocolate Soldier'" in Australia They have also engaged Miss Ethel Irving and her company tor a tour in 1911. A SWEET THEFT. Hail a ton of saccharine, valued at £1700, was stolen at Southwark. No arrest has yet been effected. A MOTOR FATALITY. Mr Albert Hock, a well known Liverpool cottonbroker, was killed by a motor accident at Hadnet. Hi's wife was injured in the accident. SHIPPING ITEM. Sailed —Pakeha, for Lytteltoii. PURE FOOD CONGRESS. Reuters correspondent states that at a private conference of the executive of the Pure Food Congress, at Paris, it was decided that the next congress be held in England in 1911. Meanwhile delegates of various Governments have internationalised methods of analysis, hence foods subjected to analysis must conform to the international standard. TREASURY BILLS. Six months Treasury Bills worth -;5,00U,000 were allotted at an average discount of 59s 9d per cent. STATUE TO GENERAL WOLFE. Mr Derwent Wood, tho sculptor, has been commissioned to. execute the first statue to General Wolfe, the hero of Quebec, in the Empire. It will consist of bronze, will be 93 inches high, and is to be erected at Westerham, Kent, next January. CONFERENCE ON LAND TAX. The Hon. D. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will couvene a small conference at the Treasury tomorrow. He invites those specially conversant with the difficulties of laud owners in filling in the land tax form. r'OR THE FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE.. Lord Desboi-ough has deputed Mr William Henry, Secretary of the Royal Life Saving Society, who is now en I route U> Australia, to arrange with amateur athletic associations to send teams to. the Festival of Empire .sports next- July. FAVOUR PENNY POSTAGE. Paris, September 13. Ninety French chambers of commerce recommended penny postage with Britain. WARxM APPRECIATION. Brussels, September i<3. Britain's renunciation of claims for compensation arising out of her loss of exhibits in the exhibition fire, iv warmly appreciated here. NEW TAX PROPOSAL. Capetown, September 13. Mr H. C. Hull, South African Minister for Finance, in the Union Cabinet, speaking at Germiston, said the Government was not renewing the Cape income tax. They proposed instead to tax Cape ami Orangian diamonds, and subsequently to introduce a tax un bust , metuls. WEAK BANKS. Washington, September 13. Mr Lawrence .Vlurray. U.S. Controller of Currency, addressing bank supervisors declared that weak banks would be forced into liquidation to present big overdrafts, which in June y mounted to £20,000,000. His office was not able to control the conditions. TWO NEGROES LYNCHED. Now York, September 13. Two negroes were lynched at Naehville, Tennessee, for an attempted assault on white girls. A GIRL KILLED.

Miss Florence Pardee, daughter »' a former Governor of California, was killed in a motor smash.