BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13278, 6 May 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. GERMANY AND PERSIA. LONDON, May 4. Rs titer's Paris correspondent states that the German Minister at Teheran has secured a Convention establishing a German bank. Th'; attempt of Prance in the same direction in 1906 was- over-ruled by Russia on the ground that 'the Russian bank of Persia met all requirements. RECOVERY OF RANSOM. Britain has applied . to Turkey for the recovery.' of Mr. i Abbott's ransom. . ' COLONIAL' ARTISTS' IN LONDON. Oswald Birley, a New Zeal-nd artist, is exhibiting at the Salon, and Royal Academy. Bertram Mackennal, the Australian sculptor, has sold a group entitled, " Earth and Element," now on .exhibition at the Academy, to the Chantry bequest. KING AND PRESIDENT. PARIS, May 3. . King Edward held a forty-five minutes' conversation with President Failures at the Elysee. THE BELGIAN MINISTRY. . BRUSSELS, May 3. M. De Trooz, a clerical, has formed a ministry for Belgium. RUSSM AND JAPAN. ST. PETERSBURG, May 4. Russia and Japan have agreed to the text of a commercial treaty embodying specific concessions on each side. RIOTING IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, May 3. There is sc-rious rioting at Rawalpindi. The mob burned motor cars, pillaged a mission church, and contractors' stores Armed police dispelled the rioters. A squadron of the Tenth Hussars is patrolling the town. MEASLES IN A PALACE. • MADRID, May 4.'. The children in the Royal Palace in Madrid are suffering from measles. EXPLOSION IN A MAGAZINE. PEKIN, May 4. An explosion of gun powder in a magazine at Canton killed 21 persons and injured hundreds. It destroyed 200 feet of the city walls. Fifteen dwellings were unroofed, including a house a mile distant. The .shock in the European quarter was terrific.