BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19702, 1 February 1926, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Tan* Awoolatlon—By Telegraph—OosTrlgtt.J WILL OF 110 WORDS. '' LONDON, January 29. In a will of 110 words, Mr Scrimgeotir, who floated most of New Zealand’s loans, left £367,406 to his wife.—A. and NJL Cable. AGRICULTURAL TRAINING COLLEGE. LONDON, January 29.4 All the Agents-general, excepting Mr Price, who refused to join, agreed to act as an unofficial consultative committee for the Lynford Hall Agricultural Training College, but they were somewhat but- , prised to And their uames used on the front page of the Lynford Hall prospectus, while Sir Robert Donald in a letter to the press suggests that what was originally a Queensland scheme nas non r received the support of all the. States. —Reuter. J V' J *• ii SACRILEGE IN FRANCE. ' PARIS, January 29. France is infuriated over the sacrilegious extinction of the perpetual Same .at the unknown soldier’s tomb, which 'the :* officials have relighted.—Sydney -Sun 1 Cable. ■ in-,, • GERMAN SHIPPING DEAL. : BERLIN, January 29. Negotiations for the sale of the entire Hugo Stinnes Deutsch-Australische Shipping Company and the Kosmos Company . resulted in a provisional agreement!’ The Stinnee fleet comprises 28 modern-pas Se- ? gcr and freight oversea steamers - of, -* total tonnage of 140,355 and two motor ' ships of 10,800 tons now under construe- a •tion. The Deutsch-Australische and’ the' Kosmos Company’s capital amounts 1: (d 13,000,100 and 12,000,000 marks respied—tively. It is stated that the traps actios will necessitate, an increase in thV capital , cf both companies.—Reuter. . ’ ’