BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15331, 14 June 1910, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric TclegTaph—Copyright. COMMANDER PEARY. LONDON, June 12. Commander Peary has sailed for New York. THE AUSTRALIAN BISLEY TEAM. The Australian Bisley Team has arrived and been welcomed. Tho men will commence practico on Monday. FIRE AT ROSYTH. A fire at the harbour works, Rosyth naval station, did damage at tho electric power station to the extent of £20,000. AMERICAN GRAIN FREIGHTS. Tho Now York Produce Exchange complains that the New York Central and sixteen other railways, by their high grain rates from Buffalo to New York, aro diverting the business to Montreal. EIGHT YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. A Borlin message says that the Court in Silesia sentenced Goldstein, an cxdotcctive of the Cairo police, to eight years' imprisonment for attempting to kill Harvey Pasha, commandant of the Cairo police. THE CHILIAN NAVY. LONDON, June 13. Tho Chilian Chamber of Deputies lias authorised a loan of £4,000,000 for the navy, of which a million will be devoted to coastal defence. A sum of £400,000, voted annually, will bs accumulated for future naval construction. RAISULI'S NEW POST. The Tangier correspondent of the "Times" roports that Raisuli has been appointed Governor of the Alcagar district of Morocco. CANADA'S NEW GOVERNORGENERAL. OTTAWA. Juno 13. It is expected that the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught will Ottawa and Montreal leading social centres, and that many leading Americans will spend tho winter in Canada. MAIL SERVICES. Mr Lomieux, Canadian PostmasterGeneral, announces that there will bo three mail .services shortly between Canada and Britain. The Government's aim is that none shall go via New York. ELECTRIC POWER FROM NIAGARA A njunicipal system has been organised by the Ontario Government for the distribution of electrio energy generated at Niagara Falls. The Government will deliver power at Toronto in October, and at London and St Thomas, a hundred miles west of tho Falls, at the end of 1910. This is expected to enable the province to be linked up with tho New York electric tramways.