BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 May 1906, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BI ELECTBIO TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE PANAMA CANAL. WASHINGTON, May 17.—The Panama Canal Committee of the American Senate at Washington has recommended a sea level canal. CANADIAN PRODUCE... LONDON, May 17.—Grey, replying i to a deputation of Ontario dairymen, predicted a large market for Canadian putter. “LIKED HIS SET.” NEW YORK, May 17.—Daly, a noted Broadway gambler, who recently died, left £IOO,OOO to relievo aged “crooks.” NAVVIES FOR NEW ZEALAND. . LONDON, May 17.—Reeves carefully selected 267 navvies ou( x of 665 applicants. ROOSEVELT VISITS NEW ZEALAND. NEW YORK, May 17.—President Roosevelt has assured AV. J. Napier that ho will visit New Zealand at tho cud of his Presidential term. lie was interested in the physical beauty of tho Islands and tho humane treatment of the Maoris ; also tho experiments in social and democratic legislation.

J HONORING GERMANY. 1 LONDON. May 17.—Tho German Burgomasters were entertained at AViiulsor at lunch. OBITUARY. LONDON. May 17.—Tho Rev. Dr. j jUilno, Moderator of tho Church of j Scotland, is dead. | A STARTLING STATEMENT. NEW YORK, May 16. Dawson, the actuary for (lie Armstrong insurance Investigation Committee, startled tho House of Representatives’ Committee on Judicial Affairs by declaring that no tiro insurance company in America knows whether it will be solvent or not when they pay the San Francisco losses. He blames the law requiring companies to hold a reserve fund of 50 per cent of their capital, whereas British companies only hold a reserve of 30 per cent, thus allowing a larger capital tn meet the losses, and enabling the companies to live through Hie strain. COAL MATTERS. BERLIN, May 16. -The newspaper •’Batavian Nieiiwsblad” states that Dutch vessels refused to accept Pulvlant coal, considering it unsatisfactory. while German ships bought i( freily; therefore, a German agency was established, though the Company remained entirely Dutch. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. BERLIN, May 16.—The Reichstag passed a Bill paying members £IOO per annum. THE WEALTHIEST KID ALIVE. NEW YORK. March 22.—An heir to the untold millions of the the Oil Trust and other American Trusts was horn early this morning, in the mansion of Mr John D. Rockefeller, juti., in 541 li Street. The child will bo named John Davidson, after his father and grandfather. Mr Rockefeller tinelder has frequently expressed his ardent hope of the birth of a grandson in the direct line of succession. ’I here is much speculation as to whether the grandfather’s anxiety to see the heir will induce him to emerge from his long and guarded retirement. In the expectation that he will do so. the approaches to the house where the infant plutocrat is lustily screaming are watched by curious people, among whom, it is said, are the .Missouri Slate subpoena servers. Air Rockefeller junior’s former child was a girl. The son is declared to be a lino healthy bov, weighing over 10!b at birth.