BRUSH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 5

BRUSH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By Telegrepa,—Copy right.) ..> f LONDON, May v^:-''*- ;, ; • The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company's profit Avas £1,074,752. A... dividend of sixty per oerit. was declared, t ■ Lord Strachie has been appointed Paymaster-General, vice Mr St, Ledger,, (Recelyed May 25, 8,10 a.m.) :•■ LONDON, May 24. Mrj Harold -BarloAV, of Taiupo Lake,: Ncav ZeaJand, purchased Wo aeroplane's ['< for demonstrations m Australasia. '■ y- 1 - Lord Inveagh has given ';' £10,000 io :'[ the department of geology and mineraC logy of the v Dublin University. , < • v Eight hundred London school children ape. starting for Paris to-moriw to 1 participate m the international .-;• musical festival, whereon a quarter of a million has been' spent.

'■ (Received May 25, 8.3Q a.m.) ,i' London, May:2||£ 'Lord Selborne, m a speech at Srwtford, described Mr Lloyd George's refe/*^, ences to the Duke of Devonshire asvthe* introduction into public and -political life of the foullest measures of illegitimatising. It Avas impossible, to hold a -man responsible for the> acts of his ancestors four hundred years ago. .L COPENHAGEN. May 24. 'JThe body of the- late Emperor Frederick AA-as 'interred at' Roskllde. 1 BERLIN, May 24. The Reichstag hae prorogued until the 26th November. Herr Von BethmannHolhveg congratulated the Deputies on voting for the Defence Bills, demonstrating' the determination whoreAvith the nation maintains its strength as an-,<-additional guarantee of peace. " PARIS, May 24. M. Dexhariel has been elected Presi-%-, dent of the Chamber by 292 votes to M. 1| Etinhes' 208. v ' ;"' ' .".. .. * - v LISBON, May 24,,. The Chamber, by 50 votes to 45^ - adopted a, .Bill suppressing-: the lega- ? tion at the Vatican: - '• • ' '• -'.'., FEZ, May 24! Forty- eight riatiA^es were executed privately m the, presence of detachments of Native troops. ■"'» • (Reoeiyed May 25, 8.10 a.m.) FEZ V May 24. Mulai Hafid- has determined to abdicate, and a southern' pretender. Mule,.;. e-el'Haibi, lias been proclaimed at Tom-;' dant: His army of 4000 ia receiving., constant additions. •'■""-• *