BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12278, 10 October 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By TcJegraph— Copyright) LONl)^NV' pctobel ; ; 9V V Vickers, Sons, and "Maxim's joiners' shop and tracing department, at Marrow, have been burned.. The loss is £50,000. Mr ijiman, of- Auckland, the Rhodes scholar qi 1908* has beeii appointed to the. Indian Oiyil service at Bombay. .... The Prince, of ' Wtales steered- the winning crew of the Naval. College cadets m, the pair-oar' regatta at Dartmouth. The p. and ()'. Company ar^ building two -steamersi of 12,000 net tonnage for Lhe Cape, service, They . will , be named Bendigo arid ' Ballarat. The Colonial Office lias obtained phonographic records of songs and. languages of, natives of West Africa for tlie practical teaching of officials m Downing street. ;••'•'- Tire Board of Agriculture asks, for £50,000 for a fund to provide scientific research arid technical advice to farmers. ; (Received Octbber 10, 9 a.m.) . . NEW. YORK, October -9. Mr W. R v Hqarst;, on. behalf pf the New. York Americ^hy offers a prize , of -£10,000 fpr the first flight across the JJnited States^ . flllrcpmers admitted as competitors; > Thirty days, are alloted foj- the' journey. C&ily beavier-than-air machines are to be usrtd: I VANCOUVER, October 9. A Japanese sealer ;was ciipturod whiie poaching at Copper -Islaiid. „ It . >ya* taken to petropolpsk, Siberia, and confiscated> the crew being imprisoned. Armed men held up a branch of the ttank of Vancouver, m a suburb, stealing £100. Mount Shis, Haldin, Unniak Island, is m eruption, the flames rising to ' a height of 1000 ft. The sight is a magnificent one. ' \ . ; SAN PRANCISUO, October 9. A stranger^ called, at the house of V(y*\ Bi<|ent Taft's aunt, warning her of. a plot (igainst the President's .life. ,p^ threatened to kill the aunt' if slie informed the police of his- visit. ,■ . . PARIS, October 9. , The Premier, m receiving a British Parliamentary deputation, promised to give the subject pf Anglo-French ; penny postage serious attention. .. :! . - .CAPETOWN, October 9. . general Botha, speaking at, Welverdiend, m fhe Transvaal, proposed a vigorous . land policy and the wholesale development of agriculture, which would make jthe South African export ;trade a rival to that- of, America. , BUISNOS AYRES, October 9. Mr Baxtrin,- of i Now. Zealand, has received first prize for hops. , \ OTTAWA, October 8. It. is reported that the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company intends to put larger and faster .steamships on the Atlantic aud Puciiic services;.