RUSSIA ABROAD.

Mataura Ensign, 30 January 1911, Page 5

RUSSIA ABROAD.

♦ ECCfr-iGMICS, NOT POLITICS. Ny I'XKCTIfIC TKI.EOUAI'ir. roi'YlllfJHT. i'i:r. i'.vri'KD tukss associ.vj ion. Received Jauuarv .'UI. S.-V> a.m. ; LONDON, .Jan. 29. The St. Petersburg correspondent of ; the 'Observer' instances the results of ' tlie Potsdam interview and the White • Sea lisherics move as showing the key , of Russia's foreign relations to be ceoi nomics. not politics. The Russian and German rulers and . Ministers conferred at Potsdam recenti )y on matters of State. A Hill has heeli - introduced in the Duma forbidding . foreigners to fish in the White Sea 'within twelve miles of any point of p; Archangel or near any of the surround- ■ ing islands. The penalties fixed range i from one to six months' imprisonment. > The White Sea is an arm of the Arctic 1 Ocean which extends four hundred miles ; into Northern Russia. fts chief . branches are the Gulfs of Mezen, Aroh- ; angel, Onega and Kandalak. ft is ; frozen more than half the year. THE VALUE OF PATENTS. Th<> lI.S Commissioner of Paten.? stated if a patent is worth anything : r '- "an, if nronerlv managed, eosilv be sold .• for f-oji"-: £2OOO to £IO.OOO. If you ha; n - in rev ted anv new article that . n ,i,i- ' need, write HENRY l R T 'f:""F,S. Patent. Agent, 157 Feathei StrceL Wellington. Establish^ p! i '.'\,'- : no to Inventors" postei ■ : f '-ec Uoro representative, Mr E. C. L Smith. 1