BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13097, 4 May 1911, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Press Association—S/Opyright.]

London, May 3. In addition to the Wertheimer bequests cabled yesterday the London Hospital receives £100,000 and the Gordon Boys' Home and tho Evelina Hospital £50,000 each. The Imperial Education Conferonce has terminated. It agreed that a standing committee should be formed in London to ensuro continuity, and to organise the 1915 conference."

Calcutta, May 2. Quiet has been restored at Charnan, where there had been rioting.

Port of Spain, May 2. . The first shipment of petroleum from Trinidad wells, consisting of 960,000 gallons, has been sent to New York. Several companies are now approaching the export stage. . ■

Paris, May 2. At the official banquet in connection with the Roubaix Exhibition, the Mayor, who is the largest wool buyer in France, said that Australia could teach France many lessons with regard to legislation, but Australia needed to advertise her resources in France.

New York, May 2. Frosts in Kansas City have done serious damage to fruit.'

Ottawa, May 2. Some parents at Montreal went out, locking their children in their homes. When they returned they_ found all in ashes. ""

The Sheffield Choir have left for Australia after a most successful tour of America.

ir „ . Athens, May 3. M. Corgi Alengo, an Anglo-Greek banker, left £421,000 to Greek charities.

„,, . . Pekin, May 3. Ine missing man Arundel, of the Asia s crew, has been found.