BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18323, 13 August 1921, Page 10

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

‘ 'Aiidcdation—By Telegraph—Copyright. ■ LONDON, August 12. ~ Aug. 13, at 5.5 p.m.) , • oSThe Distillers’ Company has acquired the Q&ldex Company’s seven distilleries, ' the world’s whisky trade. ■■ The Distillers’ Company paid £750,000 to the Calder. Company, whose capital was ; | J, 'Eord.,,|laig has handed over to the British ; Museum his personal war notes, i. SifcHfding' documents of most immense I. hSionar’ahd historic interest. He has L • given instructions that they are not to i 6o,ftj[>£hed tihtil 1940. Lord Haig has con- ? /ratetttty declined to write a war book, despite flattering offers.—A. and N.Z. "Government has authorised the in- . anguratioh of a fortnightly air mail ser->qce-.hetweeu Cairo and Bagdad, operated JRoyal Air Force. For the present it,Wlll 'be confined to official correspondence.—A. and N.Z. Cable. • NEW YORK, August 11. “*i,•: (Received Aug. 12, at 7.45 p.m.) : ■ 'The New York Times financial expert ’’ estimates that since the first of January dollars in gold have been v jjtijparteA into the, United States, of which ’total 124,000.000 dollars came from Great P 101,000,000 dollars from V'ZSeqettTiA*.' and N.Z. Cable. VIENNA, August 11. - -The Taxation Commission has levied 400 ■ jffffljpn kfoher as income tax upon a string , of horses entered for Austrian race meetings, and the commission jll4hneci‘to seize the racehorses as secuThe, owners heard of the plan just &j®rte‘ , to"rush the animals in motor lorries over the Hungarian border during the ; flight tlmie. The commissioners pursued £ Irastdsci&B, but the horses reached the —A. and N.Z. Cable. ' BERLIN, August 10. • A' message from Breslau reports that Polish hands crossed the frontier near BotfeMherg. They were driven back after with the police and British troops, ih.ijp lic h the latter suffered casualties.—