BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15451, 1 November 1910, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

I United Press Association—By Electric j Telegraph—Copyright. COTTON TRADE. LONDON, October 30. • Earl Derby has been elected president | of tho new Cotton Trade Tariff Reform , Association of Lancashire, which ini’ chides Sir W. H. llouldsworth, Mr AV. | Marriage, Mr E. Chess, Mr AV. P. j Dixon, Mr C. Middleton, Mr Platt HigI gins, Air Albert Simpson, Mr John ! iVnittaker, and other manufacturers. LONDON POST OFFICE. The London Post Office hue vacated its office in St Martins-le-Grand and removed to tho new King Edward Buildings. CHOLERA. It is officially announced that the Port of Naples will shortly be declared freo from cholera. LIBRARY DESTROYED. By a fire in tho medical section of tile Toulouse University, eighty thousand volumes wore destroyed, tho estimated damage being £30,000. CHINESE LOAN. An edict has been published by tho Pekin Government authorising a loan of £10,000,000, at 5 per cent, issuable at £95. Of this £2,000,000 is intended for tho benefit of Manchuria and the rest for currency reform. PETROLEUM IN BORNEO. From Sarawak, in Borneo, comes tho information that tho Anglo-Saxon Company, of London, has struck oil in its bore at a depth of 450 feet. CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY. The AVady Modani to Senaar section of tho Capo to Cairo railway, will bo opened on November 1.