BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1910, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

I ’ "***■ [per PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTRIOHT.J ■ THE DALAI LAMA. CALCUTTA, March 18.—The Dalai Lama has been paying visits to local factories, zoological gardens and bios- ’ cope exhibitions and is going on to Darzeeling shortly. CHANTREUSE LIQUEUR. Received this day at 10.15 a. in. LONDON, March 18.—The House of Lords Appeal Committee has decided that the goodwill of Chartreuse liqueur factory did not pass to the French judicial liquidator and therefore the monks now settled in England are entitled to the old trade marks and liqueur manufactured by the French Government must bear a different mark. GERMAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Received this day at 10.30 a.m. BERLIN, March 18. — Lieutenant Filchner’s expedition to the Antarctic leaves Germany during the summer of 1911. THE THREATENED TARIFF AVAR. OTTAWA, March 18.—The •Canadians unitedly counsel .Sir Wilfrid Laurier to resist the pressure from Washington and make no concessions. NEW YORK, March 18.—American manufacturers are urging President Taft to avert a tariff war, Canada being the larger buyer. THE KING'S HEALTH. LONDON, Mrach 18.— King Edward is still suffering from a cold. THE DECIMAL SYSTEM. LONDON. March 18.—The Associated Chambers of Commerce, by a small majority, recommended that a decimal system of coinage should he made compulsory. THE RESULT OF TRUST FIXES. NEW YORK, March 18.—< 'wing to lines tlies American Sugar Trust operations for 1909 •■liow a deficit of £28.000 despite the record year's business. AX GI .O-J AI’AX ES E EX Him TlO X. LONDON, .March 15. Hundreds of Japanese are coining to the White City Exhibition in London. The (tip. including fares and hotel expenses in London for three weeks, will only cost £IOO. THE MIXING STRIKE. LONDON, March 18.—The Northumberland .Miners’ Association continues relief pay to eleven thousand strikers. The Boanl of I rade is endeavouring to find a basis of settlement fo the dispute. WOMEN'S UNION. LONDON. March 18. The Women's Social Political I idem collected £3L--686 during the year and held twenty thousand meetings. Two hundred and ninety-four women were arrested ami 163 imprisoned. (if the 100 In lll r strikers 50 were foicihly fed.

■on: ooi.okn akoosiks." Received this «I;t\ at. 8.50 a.in. I.OXHOX, .Maivh 18 Sir «0 ..ru--Reid lias accepted .Mr H. F. AlvessA ft. In the t'onimonweallh of CrihldeA "Our Golden Argosies." which was exhibited in tile K">al Acad-;my lasi year. The picture will possihh he llllllg ill ilk. Commonwealth House ■•!' Parliament. evidently a mi iidk::. EON In 'X. March IS. The body of Xeshit. cashier in ilk' Wedderingloi. Colliery, was found hu<hlle<| iimh'i a scat in the Newcastle train. I: is h - lie veil that he carried the fortnightA pay for the men with him. FIFTY MEN DROWNED ST. PETFRSIURG, March 18. Fifty fishermen were working on an iceihh* near Peleriuf, when the wind hroke ii]) the IK*-. Ilk' fisln nm n, with horses ami carls, weie canid into the gulf of Finlaml ami it ml. lieveil that all perishe.!, WKSTRALIAX HI SI 1 111: I - Received this dav at 8.5 U a.in. PERTH. 'i his Day. Disastrous hush liie> are raging in th • 1;!:,. kwood district extern ling for sixty miles along the Coast. A DISC HACK TO t'l Vi I.ISVIToN. st. dftfrsrfrg, March 18 Th<‘ Senate lejecteil an appeal of six selkmi ho\- tllM girls, age. I sixteen ami seventeen years helonuing to the town of I’ossessmy ami sent the wind.of them to i■ xi l in Siberia for taking part in an organisation ot tin- 10-toln Innary Association m 10U7. 0TH F QFFF.X S SHAMROCK. I.OXDOX, March 18. Ilk- (.Jin-eiiA Shamrock was piesenteil to 1!i*• Irish < 1 uam 1 s at Aldershot. TH F COLONIAL W \ I»Si 111’S j

I 1,1»N I h »\. March J«. Til- 11. .M5.. ..| I ('..!iiiii..iis lias .'..iiliriM.il (li- M'lf f"i j t li- | >>■!a...ini. I .-i ihe Navy. .M rMe j Kenn.a said tile I .>l. >!iuil .a niseis v.oiiM !«■ an essential pan .*f the .Motherland's Navy, anil would he iiiaiuteil hy the .Mot liei land. except as far as N.-u /.aland v.tis ah]- t.• snp plv micii Australia \v« m l.l man lie Australian ships, ami lli.-ir pay would entile from \ustralia ') UK HOl'K D 1 \ .M' *M NKW V< illK. .March 18. Tim lid aid s Sin-ap'irc ci.rrcspL.ndciil stales (first a diver explored th>. .vr.rk -I (lm Klein h steamer Seyne, expe.itte_; !■ lind I lit; famous Hope diamond with !. it ir- bvlievod U bib - J:;- •: ! tne;chant, who was drowned h-id on heard with him. The diver recovered the ship’s safe hut it did m.i « •<. nt rsi ll the dianieiid.