BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13435, 6 November 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copynghi SWISS MILITARY SYSTEM. : ' BERNPv, November 4. Switzerland, by 326.102- votes to 264,-. 183, ratified the n « In tluo-nin; the : chief burden of military service on -young ; men. , Received 11:3 p.m.', iMoveuiber mlli. i KRISER'S VISIT TO ENGLAND. •\ ; .■> V. BERLIN,-November 5, .: It is officially announced! that eke; Kaiser has conferred ! upon. Baron von ■ Schon (who accompanies him; on' Ms visilY to England) the right of. representing; Prince Buelow in the domain of foreign i affairs. * NEW SHIPPING COMBINE. ' ' LONDON, November 4. ... Christopher - Furnejs, Withy and Co., : have increased their capital to £3,500,000, and acquired the fleet® of the British Maritime Trust, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Steamship -Company, thus becoming : the owners of 504,582 tons of steam shipping. OBITUARY. Sir W. G! Pearce, chairman of the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, is dead. . I. ' REPAIRING THE KUEVIC. LONDON, November '5. -• The initial joining of the two lialves of the steamer Suevic has been completed. FORGERY CHARGES. Ayling (Mr John Morley's stepson) has been remanded on further charges of forgery involving!X~:SlQ,oQo. - MASSACRE-BY" NATIVES. SINGAPORE, November 4. A- hundred natives -.massacred an armed jiolice patrol, also jl9 yn£n,.> eight .. women and children, at the Lslantl of Mores.