BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9726, 16 May 1892, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

J BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,—COPYRIGHT.! [Special to Press Association.] CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. LONDON, May 13. Probate bas been granted of the will of Alexander Allen, ship owner, for half a million. Glasgow charities receive under it bequests amounting to =£40,000. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The London Missionary Society’s income has increased by .£35,000 during tbe past year. POISONING HORSES. _ It is reported that a conspiracy to poison, by means of strychnine, enormously insured horses has been unearthed, and that one arrest has been made in connection with it. A COMPLIMENT.

May 12. I Baron Mueller has been created : a Doctor of Laws by the Macgill University in Montreal. ( CANADA AND THE UNITED 1 STATES. | OTTAWA. Mat 13. | The Canadian G-ovcrnment is asking I Great Britain to permit it to be more ' fully represented at Washington than j elsewhere. S [Received May 15, at 6.30 p.m.j I £IOOO DAMAGES. | LONDON, May 14, | The London correspondent of the Neiv York World has been mulcted ia j £IOOO damages tor alleging that Mrs j Geraldine Uimar would shortly be S divorced. | NEW SOUTH WALES EAIL- | ■ WAYS, i Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General ! for New South Wales, interviewed regarding Mr Achey’s charges against Chief Eailway Commissioner Eddy, that the latter had ordered half a million pounds’ worth of engines from an English ring, said this was a gross calumny and a tissue of lies, and would be easily refuted. A YACHTING. PEIZB. | Mr Gibson Millar, of Melbourne, has written to the Eoyal Yacht Club offering to give annually a prise of fifty guineas to be competed for by the yachts forming the Eoyal Yacht Squadron. In announcing the offer to the members of the Club, the Prince of Wales said it had given the Committee much pleasure to accept the prize, and he suggested that the trophy should bo named the Australian Cup. j [Received May 15, at 7.10 u.ra.l j May 14, | General Booth intends asking tiio Government of New Zealand to pay the cost of conveying the submerged tenth to that Colony, i TYPE-SB I'TING BY j MAOIIIN EEY. At a meeting of the Linotype Company Mr Jacob Bright presided. The Chairman announced that the most serious obstacles had been surmounted, and that the English machine was 50 per cent superior to the American production. The training of mechanics to use the machine (for type-setting) had prevented a rapid output. The manager of the Scottish Leader, an Edinburgh paper, stated that the cost of setting two hundred and fifty < columns by means of the Linotype ! was no dearer than fifty by the hand i process.