BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13449, 22 November 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright OBIIUAItY. LONDON, November 20. Barone.'s Adolphe Rothschild io dead, i FINANCIAL CRLSJR IN CHILI. Reu&n'iV Santiago correspondent. reports , a ■ serious - financia l situation m ~Chili, owing- to the unprecedented fall in the rate : of exchange. 0112 bank lias suspended : •payment-, and three other banks have- : t.raijr»ferml themselves to the -Bank of ; Chili. 1 FUN WITH A KING ] • A dozen undergraduates " ragged " the ; King of Spam by:peltihg him with lump, .sugar.: on November-. 1-ltb, when he was o visiting Cambridge. One:- of the 1 riftend-.i i'rs was fined. S'l PAUL'S C'ATHEDR \I Air Mervyn,' MaeArtney. architect. as--: f-.erls- that fight piers supporting St. Paul's dome> liavih .sunk, some'-'moro ' than - six I niches. others less. -. While Mr MacArbl.ey does net consider the situation sen- . ous other, architects differ strongly,- and the (strictest- precaution.: . FTNANI'I A 1 S'IATK' Oi 1 CERMANY i • LONDON-! - November ./A. The ' Time-f;"' • Berlin correspondent says-'! that it. is becoming more and more evident; -that m . view cit the heavy: deficit' facing , the Empire • annually-,'-.-that* fresh'; taxation is urgent-,-to terminate the untenable financial posi ion. '; ; i DLSMTNRAL OF "ALIENS Hi? " Daily Mail" reports v.'that tremendous numbei-i of aliens, chiefly Ja- • :bourers. i who have been dismissed by -American industries-, . ai'© :..-returning . .to' ■ Europe.

THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE. CAPETOWN, November 20. Dr Jameuon applauds Mr_ Balfour's wise and welcome suggestion 'for" resummoning the Colonial Conference. Received 9.41 p.m.. November 23i-t. PARLIAMENTSRY CONTROL. BRUSSELS, Noye.mber 21. : The Colonial/Bill, as amended by the Belgian Parliamentary Commission." is a rematkable triumph for the "advocat-s- of parliamentary control. . THE ILL-FATED JENA. PARIS, November 21. ;■ The Minister of Marine has relinquishet the -idea of repairing the-battleship Jena, on. a disaGtroni explosion occurred some weeks ago. ■' . THE GERMAN BUDGET. BERLIN, Nov. 21. The German Budget- for 1908 shows an increase of £7,500,000, which includes £3,000.000 for the . navy, nearly £3,020,000 for the: army ancl "nearly £l,000,000 for the colonies. Prince Buelow purposes to raw? •>£l3.ooo,Coo"by■ means of credit operations to meet-non-recurring end ■. extraordinary expenditure* also to bonxls if the need arises not'exceeding £17,500,000 in -order to strengthen extraordinary resources and . re'serves, and th-s right to propose new taxation.