BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12584, 20 August 1901, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. A PLEA EOR AUSTRALIAN TIMBER, LONDON, August 13. The Agent-General for West Australia, in a letter to the “ Times,” urges the rate-

payer’s of Westminster to revise the Municipality's contract for American and Swedish paving to Australian hardwoods. THE LOSS OE THE VIPER. The Admiralty has decided to destroy .the wreck of the Viper with explosives secretly, in order that the vessel’s mechanism may not be revealed.

INFANT MORTALITY IN LIVERPOOL.

Owing to the infant mortality in Liverpool, the Municipality of that city is

sterilising twelve thousand bottles of humanised milk daily.

A NEW STEAMER. The White S(kr' Line's new steamer Athenic has been launched in Belfast. AUSTRALIAN WINE. LONDON, August 19.

The Admiralty has decided to exclusively .use Australian wine in connection with/launching at Government dockyards. A PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES. PARIS, August. 19.

Twelve thousand blind, deaf, dumb, cripples and consumptives in twenty-three trains, left Paris for the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes.

THE POPULATION OP CANADA.

OTTAWA, August 18,

The Canadian census shows that the population is 5,338.833. The population of the province of Quebec has increased by 132,439, of Ontario by 53,657, of British Columbia by 91,827, of Manitoba by 95,958, and of the North-west Territories by 78,200 during the decade.