BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16568, 4 June 1914, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. RESIGNED. LONDON, June 2. Major Norton has resigned his position as Trado Commissioner for South Australia. Ho has been appointed manager of the British Dominions Producers' ■ Association. KING'S BIRTHDAY POST-BAG. LONDON, June 3. The King's Birthday post-bag included fifty thousand letters of congratulation from English elementary school children. CALIFORNIAN VOLCANO. NEW YORK. Juno 2. News from Redding, California, states that the Lassen volcano is doing no damage, belching principally mud. An expedition has been despatched to explore the outbreak. SOUTH AFRICAN TAXATION. CAPE TOWN, Juno 2.

Tho Income Tax Bill provides that shipping companies carrying .on business with tho Union should be assessed on five pounds in every hundred payablo to tho company, whether payablo inside or outside the Union, with respect to passengers, live stock, mails and goods shipped in the Union.