BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13335, 11 July 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright

TREATMENT OF ABORIGINES. ■LONDON, July 8

Replying to Sir William Redmond Mr Runciman, said that , the Protector of the Aborigines reports that there is an almost unanimous opinion among those with practical experience that chaining by the neck is .the most humane method of preventing escape. The Government did not share that opinion, and will direct the Governor as opportunity offers, to impress upon the West Australian Government the objections which "the continuance of the practice cannot fail to excite in England. SLAVERY IN EAST AFRICA.

Mr Churchill states that the legal status of slavery will be abolished in Mombassa, and the East African protectorate in October. Parliament will be asked to vote for compensation.

TORPEDO FACTORY.

The Government is constructing a large torpedo factory on the Clyde. SWIMMING.

In the Life-Saving Society's 100 Yards Invitation Swimming Rue?, lieltl by the Bath Club, Derbyshire beat Tarkakover. of Sydney, on the toucli. I'. L. Baker, of Sydney, also comueted, 1)"t "was unplaced. Receive:! 10 p.m. .July 10th. THEFT OF JEWELLERY, v, LONDON, July 10.

Jewellery to the value of £1500" belonging to Sir Arthur Vicars, Ulster King at Anns, has been stolen. It- was in the >aiir> safe as the insisinia of St. /Patrick. COMPOSITION" WITH CREDITORS. Mr Havelock Wilson, member of the House of Commons for Holmfirth, pays a composition of 10s in the £.

SENTENCE FOR CORRUPTION. NEW YORK, July 10.

Eugene Srhniitz, Mayor of San Francisco, has been sentenced to five years 'imprisonment. . "

Received 9.20 p.m.. July 10th. EXPEDITION FOR MANILA

An expedition leaves San Francisco atthe end of July to lay mines and submarine torpedoes at Manila and Subig Bay.

AIKSHIPS AND BALLOONS. PARIS. July 9. The military airship Patrie made many successful flights across pans, at- the rate of eighteen miles an hour, against the wind, and has been sent for service on the (iernian frontier. Other airships are being built-. For many months (a. Berlin message says), (Germany has bean <'Xj>erime'iliiiiir with dirigible military balloons by night.