FROM OVERSEAS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 678, 30 March 1909, Page 5

FROM OVERSEAS.

AUSTRALIAN MEAT EXPORTS. (Press Association.-By Tolegraph.Oopyright). London, Yesterday. A Smithh'eld Committee reports that 24.7 per cent, of meat, poultry, etc, marketed in 1908 was Australian. A STEAMER LAUGHED. The Orient Company's steamer Otranto has been launohed at Belfast. (Tlw new steamer, one of five being bnilt, is of 12,000 tons, twin soreWi) A POLITIOIAN-FORGER'S DEATH. The death is announced of William Roupell, formerly member for. Lamboth, who in 1862 was sentenced to penal servitude for life for self-con-fessed forgery. A BIG COMPANY. The Bovril Australian Estates Co., Ltd., has a oapital of £250,000. The directors are Lord Brassey, S. ir Edward Wittenoom and Mr Kidman. Mr C. H. Rawson will assume the chairmanship of the Board upon returning in Ootober from his present position as Agent-General lor Westralia. (The company has been formed to purchase the properties of Mr Sydney Kidman, the Australian oatticking). AUSTRALIAN AND FRENCH WINES. At Mr Taverner's inßtanoe, with a view of safeguarding the interests of producers of Australian wines, which oarry a greater proportion of alcohol than Frenoh wines; Mr Churohill has deoided to hear the Australian objections to Frances overtures for a new treaty for Frenoh wines in order to facilitate her exports to Britain of thin wines, WOOL PACKS.

The committee appointed to enquire iuto the sabjoot of vegetable fibre in wool has issued its final report. It reoonimends the use of speoially-piepared paoks of oloselywoven texture with thick corrugated paper lining. A P"OET MISSING. John Davidson, the poet, has been missing from his home at Penzance for several days. (John Davidson, poet and playwright, was born in Scotland in 1857. He was a te&oher by procession, l but in 1890 he oame to London and wrote reviews and articles in the Glasgow Herald and The Speaker, until his poetry began to attract attention). . POSTAL STRIKE ENDED. Paris,' Yesterday. The Frenob postal trouble has ended. The Government aooepted the assurance of the. men's fidelity. AN UNPOPULAR ALLIANCE, San Pranoiseo, Yeßterday. Mies Helen Emery, daughter of a Oalifornian Archdeacon, is engaged to marry Gungiro Aoki, a Japanese, and a relative of Oount Aoki (late Japanese Ambassador at Washington) Several thousand people mobbed Miss Emery at the San Franoisoo railway station, shouting vile epithets. Newspaper correspondents finally resoned the girl from the orowd. AN AUSTRALIAN VISITOR, New York, Yesterday. Major-General Hoad, Commonwealth Commandant, was cordially weloomed by Mr Taft. The Amenoan authorities will give him the fullest faoilities to visit military centres and fortifications. STOWAWAYS AND OPIUM. .Fremantle, Yesterday.;.

Eleven Ohidefge stowaways .were discovered aboard the eteamer Charon, from Singapore. They were secreted in a bold' amongst timber in a speoially-ooDatrnoted cavity ten feet by seven feet. They were in a filthy condition. One hundred and five tins cf opium were found handy. A BTORM. Brisbane, Yesterday. A storm at Pittsworth unroofed many nooses and seriously damaged the Oatholio Church and other properties.