BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 22

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, October 18. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, the Earl of Eanfurly, and Major Myers were present at the Dairy Show. There were 35 entries of colonial butter, including two exhibits from South Africa, in each class. The creditors of Mr Seymour Hicks, the London actor-manager, have accepted a composition of 6s 8d in the £. Mr Hicks undertakes to pay off his liabilities at the rate of £IO4O per annum to the trustee for the creditors. About £4817 will be required to pay the composition. Mrs Hicks is a creditor for £26,000, but she forwent her claim. October 20. The death is announced of Colonel Vickers, founder of the armament firm of Vickers (Limited). October 21. The Bank of Australasia has declared an interim dividend of 7 per cent, on preference and ordinary shares. The Executive Council of the Imperial Chambers of Commerce suggests to Canada that next year’s conference be further postponed, and that in the meantime a purely, business meeting of commercial men should be held in London in 1916 for discussion of the retention and extension of trade within the Empire after the war. The French ship Andral Couvat, bound from Queenstown to New Zealand, was driven ashore by a fierce gale at Kinsale Head. The crew were saved. October 22. Australian Homeward-bound freights are rising daily owing to all Greek Rumanian tonnage being withdrawn and a number of steamers commandeered for the Dardanelles. Ninety shillings a ton is offered for steamers, with no takers. Another difficulty is that the use of ships for Australian wheat would prevent them from bringing thrice the amount of foodstuffs from America in the same period. October 23. A receiving order of bankruptcy has been made against the Duke of Manchester. The Government is drafting for early presentation a Bill prohibiting increased rents during the war period. The committee of the British Empire Industrial Exhibition has secured an option over a large site near the Strand, and will open the exhibition immediately after the war, with the object of fostering Empire products and preventing Germany from regaining the markets. The Advisory Committee includes several of the Agents-general. NEW YORK, October 22. An operator at Arlington (Virginia) talked with Paris, the capital of France, by wireless telephone. The Honolulu operator also heard the Arlington operator talking. A message was received from Paris, stating that the greater part of the message had been heard distinctly. October 24. Fifth Avenue was given up for four hours to a parade of 40,000 suffragettes from every State. Twenty foreign countries ■were represented.