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Temuka Leader, Issue 5752, 10 December 1908, Page 1

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN. I LOiNDuN.'Do' - . C>. Lord Rosebery, speaking at .Leith, siiid bo disbelieved that an unprovoked attempt would bo made by Cermany to'invade England, but it was Britain’s duty to insure against all risks. A conference at the; (luiUlitf.vll,, nndec tiie auspices of tlio Right to Work National Council, recommended an increase of the unemployed grunt to £1,000,000, which should be available for distribution by other agencies besides the Distress Committees. Dec. 7. 1

Lord Roberts' relief fund has readied £33,0W, enabling relief to be given in SOG, cases. ( . : The British and Gorman Commissioners will begin to delimit the British and German New Guinea boundaries in .January. When completed the report will • be sent to the respective . Governments, who will finally settlo vthe matter. - , . | Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquct isj gazetted Governor of South Australia. I The Daily Mail reports that a eur'prise test of the speed at which the Territorials could be mobilised was executed at Essex yesterday with complete success. Clemens, of Tasmania, a student at Oxford, finished first in the inter-um-: versity cross-country race of 74 miles. The winner's time was 42min 30sec Oxford won by 11 points, scoring 66 to Cambridge's -22. „ ; BERLIN, Dec. i.

Ilerr Sydow, Secretary ol the German Treasury, stated in the Reichstag that the deficit for 1007 was £0,909,000. The estimated deficit tor tho current year was £5,300,000. PARIS, Dec. 7. **

Admiral Germinot has been relieved ( of the command of the French Mediterranean squadron for criticising thej NTavv's lack of ammunition. 5 CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 7. \ Turkish 'regiment mutinied at Kuiprulu and retired to the barracks, which the loyal troops surrounded. During the fight an officer and six loyalists were killed and an officer and ton loyalists wounded before the mutineers* surrendered.. ,<3T. "PETERSBURG, Dec. i. Detectives arrested the whole ot the Social Democratic Committee m the

Moscow district. The Budget Committee ot the Duma has sanctioned a foreign loan of (Mo 000,000, thereof £30,000,000 be devoted to the redemption ol u per cent treasury bonds. PEKIN, Dec. <>- An Imperial decree issued at Pckiu orders the convocation of Parliament for the ninth year after 'August 27tli lUSt ' NEW YORK, Dec. 7.

Myers, who was 'recently arrested at Pittsburg. has caused the» arros < hi, prosecutor, Piddison, a Wall St cct broker, alleging that ho was renting slocik eertificates •so as to onablo borrowers to obtain loans. SINGAPORE, Dec. 7. Admiral ferry's fleet has arrived at Singapore. Doc . 7 . Tho Calcutta police raided several Mohiimmedan shops, and removed can load* of amis and ammunition. luo proprietors wore arrested. i l ' CAPETOWN, Dec. 7.

Till! Capetown correspondent ot thii Standard gives details of the aiurc ~f Horr Ucrnbcrg, JJnvcti.r of Colonial AlVnirs in formally, to secure \\ alisch l'-av permanently <»' f( »" : ' l in return for n concession to a Irtish Company to construct a railwav. jrad tl*. otVor been accepted ■''■> hiin hunr would Lave been halt the <iistanee from Wall.seh Bay lliut it i* from Capetown. . ~ Mr Morrimnr., Premier ot I ape

loi.v, aud General But ha Premie 01 the Tm.isv.uil. n-senb-d tile overt... » which wore made milliont the knowledge <>f the Trnpcritil Government *• MOROCCO, Doc. I>. Mulai Hal'.. I. the new Sultan, ac-t-opts the il'uwcrs' conditions but makes stipulations regarding tlw *euiicntion f the late Saltan s debts.