BRITISH AND FOREIGN
Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright ALLEGED WHOLESALE SWINDLING. : NEW YORK, May 24. Edward Boeck, one of the. defenders of the Pekdn Legations against the Boxers, and afterwards Superintendent of theChinese Court at the St. Louis Exhibition, through the influence of American millionaires, obtained from" New York firms £50.000 worth of jewellery for sale among New York visitors.' He pawned the jewellery, and absconded, but returned the pawn tickets, thus reducing the actual loss to £16,000. . ■ . . . . A LESSON FOR LONDON., Mr Lloyd-George visited Antwerp- and Hamburg." and was greatly impressed with the superiority of their dock equipment ever that of London. - SHI JOHN KIRK. I LONDON. -May 24. . The King, summoned.. Mr * Kirk ito Buckingham Palace to .congratulate- him upon his work. .- Mr .Kirk was surprised by being knighted on the,.spot.: : (At. sixteen. Mr Kirk "became ..secretary to. the Pure. -Literature Society,. .and then assistant to the Ragged School-Union, and secnt&ry- of the Open .Air Mission. He organ-feed Pearson's ..Fresh Air Fund, Christmas Guest- Guild, and Sir W. TreJoar's Christmas,- Hampars.J. Tf
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13296, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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