BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13106, 15 May 1911, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Press Association —J/opybight.] London, May 12. Lord Eshor states that the decline in the London Territorials is from 24,510 early in 1909 to 22,,286. Recruiting is shrinking, and he blames the Army Council regulations as being unsuitable for London. The Australian and New Zealand women's meeting at the International Franchise Club decided to form a committee to deal with the question of women under the Naturalisation Act, and to lay the matter before . Sir Joseph Ward and Mr Fisher preparatory to tho Imperial Conference. New stamps, post cards and letter cards are being issued on Coronation Day. London, May 13. Yesterday's spectators at tho Festival of Empire numbered 144,234. Ottawa, May 12. The steamer Edith has arrived at Cordova, in Alaska, with another consignment of Canadian coal. A large force of deputies preserved order while the coal was being landed Buenos Ayres, May 13. A loan of twelve million sterling for extraordinary expenses is foreshadowed.