BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15862, 27 February 1912, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. A CANADIAN LOAN.

LONDON, February 25. A Canadian £5,500,000 3} per cent loan has been issued at 98. It is intended for redemption purposes. >.■ THE BOTTOMLEY BANKRUPTCY. The High Court is hearing the Prudential Assurance Company’s application that H. W r . Bottomley should bo imprisoned for contempt of Court, alleging that he published a slanderous article in the newspaper “ John Bull, because the Prudential Company refused to participate in his bankruptcy scheme. EXPEDITION TO DUTCH NEW GUINEA. Dr Wollaston, the leader of tho British Museum .expedition sent to Dutch New Guinea in 1905, is organising a new expedition to Dutch New Guinea. Ho expects to leave England in May. EPIDEMIC IN A TRAINING SCHOOL. It is reported from Berlin that ISO non-commissioned officers at a training school at Potsdam havo been seized with gastric intestinal catarrh. FRENCH WORKMEN’S PENSIONS. Tho French Senate incorporated in the Finance Bill a proposal to lower the ago limit for workmen’s pensions to sixty years. NO MORE LOTTERIES. The French Government has decided to authorise no more lotteries in that country. THE LATE DUKE OF FIFE. The arrangements for the burial of the Duke of Fife provide for an exceedingly quiet interment. PRESERVATIVES IN MILK. (Received Sfebruary 28, 9.25 p.m.) LONDON, February 26. The Local Government Board has drafted regulations, which will be enforced on June 1, prohibiting preservatives in milk or cream. The maximum penalty will be £IOO. THE SUGAR CONFERENCE. ST PETERSBURG, February 26. It is semi-officially annQunced that despite the readiness of Russia to make every saorifice, even to tho extent of injuring her sugar producers, Germany persists in an irreconcilable position, consequently Russia disclaims responsibility for the eventual breakdown of the conference.