BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13274, 1 May 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—Per Electric - Telegraph—Copyright. ASSAULT OX A CAPTAIN. LONDON, April 29. Bertram Y*. Williams,, a, seaman on the ship Port Jackson, which recently arrived from Sydney, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for asaulting the captain because he gave him a bad discharge. It ■was stated that Williams is a. son of a New Zealand clergyman. THE KIEL CANAL. The first- instalment for the Kiel Canal £750,000, has been passed by t-lie Reichstag. BILLIARDS. Cook made a break of 19,780 unfinished, including 9360 by "anchor cannons." He beat Harverion bv 24,G00 points to 1312. AGAINST LIVING STATUARY. Ths Bishop of London, and the Rev. Lingett. and other Nonconformist ministers have begun a crusade against the exhibition of living statuary. GUNS AND BATTLESHIPS. .Woolwich Arsenal, Aimstrong's, and Tickers. Son and Maxim, have received orders for sixty 12-inch guns for tlnoe British Dreadnoughts now being' built. for three Brazilian Dieadnou'glits noub_ir.LT built in England. OBITUARY. The denth is reported of Sir Penrose Julvan. K.C.M.0.. acred 91 years. TARIFF REFORM. Tliirty-tJiiv-j out of 48 members of the London Chamber of Comerce. who .are al.-o numbers of Parliament, have, written • to the secretary cKsser.tinsr from the tariff reform resolution recently passed profiling unwavering adherence to freetrade.

VICTORIAN FINANCE. LONDON, April. 30. Mr Bent discussed the question of conversion loans witli the. directors of the London unci Westniinifter Bank. He- inlimatsd that the Government intended to ! open ;:n office for the inscription and management of Victorian stock, with pay s ment of interest 011 the lines of the South Australian scheme, but. affording, greater facilities. The bank will continue to transact the Government's banking busi"6 . WOOLWICH ARSENAL. Hie War Office states that there will b? on!v nxtv discharges weekly from the whole 'of the ordnance factories at Woolwich and that no minimum establishment: was yet. fixed. _ LAUNCH OF A DESTROYER. The destroyer Gliurka, 33 knots, and one of the five ocean-going vessels ordered by the Admiralty with a radius of. action of 2000 miles at cruising speed, has been launched at Hebburn on Tyne. BRITISH COLUMBIA. OTTAWA, April 29. . There is a great influx of Japane-e into British Columbia, Many are employed on railway construe', iori. VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. ROME. April 29. - The volcano Stromboli is in violenteruption. Ait earthquake shock shattered the wind6ws. and broke the cab.e betjreen Lipari and Stromboli. A- DIVORCE CASE. NEW YORK, April 29. Madame Emma Fames, the well-known prima donna, has secured a divorce from her husband Julian. Story, the artist.