BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16193, 20 March 1913, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. COLONIAL CHEESE. LONDON, March 18. The dairy show is offering prises for coloured and uncoloured colonial cheese, and also for collections of dairy produce. LIVINGSTONE CENTENARY. Many references have been made to Dr David Livingstone, whose centenary is being celebrated. Lord Curzon delivered a oulogiuni on the explorer at tho Geographical Society’s commemoration meeting. AUCKLAND DRAINAGE LOAN. Letters of allotment have been forwarded in connection with the Auckland Drainage Board loan. NEW SOUTH WALES SCRIP. The “Financial Times” says that the New South Wales bonds are finding favour with investors who were hit by the fall in consols and are desirous of a security wliich has no scope for a fall because redeemable in a decade. THE OCEANIC DEATH.

The Southampton police state that there is nothing to support the theory of foul play in connection with the death of Miss Frances Leslie on board the Oceanic. PATENT INVALIDATED. Brunner and Mond’s application to restrain Lever Bros, from using tho applicants’ process for purifying oils has been dismissed. Tho defendants admitted that tho process was worth a quarter of a million a year, but they claimed prior knowledge which invalidated tho patent. RUSSIAN LADY SWINDLED. In Berlin swindlers induced a Russian lady to entrust them with liter handbag containing jewels worth £6250 whilst she visited a kinematograph show. The men decamped. ESPIONAGE. A man named Bergmann, a Frenchman, has been arrested at Metz on a charge of espionage. CANADAN TRADE. OTTAWA, March 19. Tho Trade Commissioner reports that in 1912 Canadian trade with Australia increased by twenty millions, compared with 1911. Australia’s trado with Canada increased by ten millions.