BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12318, 1 December 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

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, LONDON, N;6yember.3O. * Mr H. 0, Woods, lat$ <jf the Grenadier Guards; hag Ijieert appointed ViccConsul at Adana. (.' ' The Times' engineering correspondent says the ocean depths between Scotland, Iceland, arid' liabfadoi' do not "present abnormal conditions for cable laying. Polar ice-drifts in the tVses<,ern Atlantic, to Oiesapeak; BavT b> without detriment to cableship operations. The peril, if any, is'tro water, where icebergs occasionally met. The 'modern rock type of cable ought; to suffice when precautions were tai^en, to, iay 'the cable in duplicate along different routes. (Received December 1, 9.5 am.) > LONDON, November $K : Obituary : Jem Mace, tli© well-laiqWn pugilist. Ho died of isenile decay,' *.! The Rev. J. S. Lidgett, giving^ evidence before the Divorce OomroMsion on behalf of the Wesleyan Churchi >aid^hat any change in the eiiating Jaw ?nould achieve the strengthening of ' l r6Y^tenco for the marriage contract. He'' favored the, equality of the sexes. H[|&Vhad . never known diyorce among Wesleyans. Mr Frederick ;: h^efore tho Divorce Commission, said: tliot the Posi- 1 tivisfc Society was opposed . to \ divorce, <and believed that maxriage \yas:contini(ied after death, and was indis9oruble. They preferred t-he law as At present. Tha P. and O. /Company li^s declared a dividend on deferred, snar^ of 6^ per cent, and a. bonus of S per cent. Judigfe Wiui-ington, in Chancery, gave j iidgment for • the amalgamated milway men ip an action wherein Mr. Osborne sought a declaration that his expulsion fi-om and' the diasolution of the Walthamstead branch were illegal. The judge held that,' the agreement njembers entered intoi on joining the society was illegal, and in restraint -of tradti. Asiatic cholera has appeared at Funclial. ATHENS, November,, 3Q. An , ofjS.cer of the CJreek navy ' htts invented a machinoi renewing the air in submarines without the .need for their rising to the surface. Satisfactory trials have been made.* ► • MOSCOW, November 30. Tolstoy's will, dated JtiJy 5, leaves all rights in connection with his books to his daughter Alexandra.