BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13447, 20 November 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Assoo.iatinn-Bv Telegraph-Copyright lIRKEIR HARDIE. COLOMBO. November 18. . Mr Keir Hardie. has sailed for New -Zealand. THE NEW HEBRIDES. LONDON, November 18., An Order-in-Council has been, gazetted providing for the exercise of the King's jurisdiction in the New Hebrides in accordance with ths- Anglo-French .Convention' ratified on October 29th. FOREIGN SAILORS BARRED. The Board of Trad.' has issued a- notice that after January Ist, foreign .seamen, will be;unable to ■engage in British -ships in European waters .unless, 'they have enough knowledge of English to imdetv stand orders given in English. The order chiafiy aft'eclr; Italians-, Portuguese, ; Spaniards, and Greeks. "THE GERMAN NAVY. BERLIN, ■November 18. ■The Naval estimates for . next year amount to £17,000,000, and for future years £19,G00,0C0. The construction program mo provides for. three Dreadnoughts annually until 1912, and two afterwards, until 1916; one mammoth cruiser'; and twelve destroyers annually, beside, submarines.'. ; Received 11.15 p.m.. November 19th.BERLIN, November. 19. Extreme advocates of German naval expansion urge Prince von Buelow io begin four battleships arid a large cruiser yearly witlia. view of securing, by 1914 a complete double squadron of modern ships. -..'../■'. —.-;.'-v.