BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13128, 9 November 1906, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association —Per Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. "* THE HERRING ESTATE. LONDON, November 7. Mr Herring's estate amounts in value to about £1,250,000. Numerous i bequests: have,: ifeeen . made to relatives,; friends and- servants; - £50,000: has been left] .to .the Salvation Army, and r.the:. residue ;i to ■_, the , Hospital Fund. ""V;-. -\ ' :;:.A ;: THE SCHILLER. The Chiller has-been refloated. GLASGOW MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. '';' For thirteen municipal vacancies in Glasgowi three Labourites have been elected. Nine, including Mr Keir Hardie's brother, were beaten. THE UifRULY STOKERS. . The stokers state that the lieutenant who ordered them to go on their knees was unpopular, and had' already lost half a year's seniority. The men complain of the dead set made against them by the executive officers, who treated them as if they were boys. THE CRUISER INCIDENT. MOROCCO, November 7. The assailants of the hands on the French cruiser Galilee, have been imprisoned. THE FAR EAST. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 7. The "Novoe Vremya" states that the Treasury ihas disbursed £157,000,000 on account of the war in the Far East, towards a total of £175,000,000. ' Eighteen millions still remain unpaid. NEGRO BATTALION DISMISSED. NEW,YORE, November 7. President Roosevelt has dismissed an en!tire negro battalion for declining to divulge the names of comrades rioting and shooting in houses at Brownsville and Texas, and killing a, citizen.