BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12587, 18 October 1911, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Presa Assn.— By Telegraph. — Copyright.) LONDON, October 17. Consols are at 78-£. Wolffe has challenged Burgess to swim for the ; - ftv-dfessjoiial championship of England for any distance m open "vmter or m an open-aii' bath. ; • ■' ; ■ Clear telephoning has been established between London, and ' Bale (Switzerland), via Paris and Belfort. .

The Women's Spcial' ; #nd Poliipc^l; Union accused-Mr Lloyd George of wishing to wreck the Conciliation Bill)' ark challenges the Government to declare the acceptance of the wider measure eulogised by Mr Lloyd George, and stand or fall thereby. I The Times, commenting on correspondence m its columns, says that the great majority of unionists demand' to know j clearly whether the Halsbury Club (composed of ' 'no surrender" - advocates) is designed to .\ promote a. policy independent or. .hostile to Mr Balfour. Lord Lahsdowhe, m the Times, emphasised as suggestive and possibly ominous that a ] majority of the- neei's the club are drawn f rorii ' those voting against Lord Lansdowne's advice m the division on the ParllAtiijantf "Bill. I (Received October' 18, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, October. 17. . The wife of Captain Coventry, late of the 17th Lancasters, has been arrested on a charge of having caused the death of a. labourer, Qilks, whose daughter was formerly -in the prisoner's employ. » In connection with Mt Bower's death from fox-bite, the Board of Agriculture's inquiries of" huntsmen, farmers, and veterinary surgeons do. npt indicate the existence past or ' present ' of -rabies m West Wiltshire. The inquiries are proceeding. !The Daily Mail's Paris Correspondent states that Dr: Pasteur's Institute states, that a fox bite as the cause of hydrophobia is not known 1 . '

(Received October 18, 11.30 .n.m.) The Rev. Mr Wooding, representing the British and Foreign Unitarians, has sailed on a visit to Australian and New Zealand churches. >

No tenders were received for the South African mail contract. The shipping conference companies refused to tender. It is expected that" temporary arrangements wijl be adopted on; the basis of poundage rates. There are 6500 men idle as the result of the Cambrian haulers' strike, which arose from the management displacing a man for cruelty to a horse.

Godhino, the man' competed for , the murder of a stewardess on the steamer China, has been executed.

Mr Snowdon, speaking at Hartleppol, said, he regretted Mr Lloyd George's unstatesmanhke way of dealing with the criticisms of the Insurance Bill. The clitics were not hostile, but Avere quite as anxious .to ameliorate the sufferings of the working classes as the : Chancellor. If the Bill was as 'Mr Lloyd •George described, even the extremest Socialist would be enthusiastic.

Owing to the difficulty of. securing Australian freight to Naples, Italian oiders for meat, including army orders, are going to the Argentine. A compuJsory winding-up order for the Bank of Egypt 'has been granted oh the bank's application.

The police have arrested a man in* whose lodgings was found £5000 m German bank notes, which it is believed is part of a robbery of £7000 from the Saarbrucken Bank.

Discussing current reports regarding changes m the Ministry, which ..assert that Mr Lloyd Georgei will take the-' leader ship of the House of Commons, with irregular visits, from, Mr Asquitb, who is avejrse to an autumn session, Mrs Pember Reeves,, at the Women's Institute, declared , that married women will have* to, economise m the family's food to enable the husband to pay the insurance. NEW YORJi,. October 17. Uodgers, the trans-continental aviator, has arrived at MacAlister, Oklahoma, and has resumed his flight to San Francisco.

The American Tobacco Trust has, filed plans for a reorganisation m accordance with the Supreme Court decision, asking for an extension of time till March, 1912, to obey •■the injunction. At St. Paul an aviator named, Robinson began a flight down the valley of the Mississippi at Minneapolis ancl New Orleans. He started at a mile per minute, and is folowing the river route for the entire distance. . OTTAWA, October 17. The Dominion' Goverriment'has ordered an investigation of expenditure on the trans-continental .railway, and has also ordered the cessation; of work on the Monck'toni railway. The cost is enormously m excess of the sum, first fixed.

Parliament has been summoned to met on November. ( 5. Extensive reforms m the i Militia Department;; ate promised, and a 1 readjustment 'of ' the outlying provincial grievances' is planned;' "me reciprocity agreement will' not appear m the House again. ■PARIS*-- October 17. . The Government has informed the Consumers' League that while unable to modify the duties on imported meat, it will do its utmost to decentralise the meat trade rfhd establish refrigerating houses