BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13322, 6 March 1914, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn,— By Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received March 6, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 5. Sir William Lever, presiding at a meeting of Lever Bros., referring to the shortage of labor m the Solomon Islands, said he did not see Ithe slightest objection to importing labor from congested India. Sir John Kirk is distributing Tunley\s welcome gift of frozen mutton to the poor of London and Liverpool. (Received March 6, 10.50 a.m.) The Chartered Company agree to refer the question of the ownership of the unalienated lands m Rhodesia to the Privy Council. The Imperial Council of Commerce has passed a resolution supporting the Dominions Exhibition. There has been an outbreak of foot and mouth disease m the Conway district. Mr Kirkpatrick, Agent-Gjeneral for South Australia, gave a reception to Mr Galway at the Trocadero hotel. Lord Emmott, Sir John Anderson, Captain Muirhead Collins (Commonwealth agent), Mr Denham (Premier of Queensland), and the Agents-General were present. . (Received March 6. 10.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 5. The Davis Cup semi-finals must be completed by August Ist' and the finals by August Bth. OTTAWA, March 5. Mr George Kyte, m the House of Commons, introduced an Old Age Pensions Bill, on the lines of those adopted m Australia and New Zealand. The Finance Minister, Mr White, opposed the measure, declaring that public opinion m Canada was not ready for such action, NEW YORK, March 5. Obituary: Henry Green, a pioneer manufacturer of x-ray tubes. His death was due to carcimona of the liver, induced by x-ray poison. Green developed the first focussing tubes successfully operated, and later began /their manufacture on a commercial basis.