BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13460, 5 December 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association-By" Telegraph-Copy right FUN WITH SUFFRAGETTES. . LONDON,. December 3. Students broke up 'Miss Paukhurst'ii suffragist meeting at Nottingham. They liberated tame mice, on the-'platform, but she caught and fondled them. . THE FRENCH AIRSHIP. The French < airship ;Patrie, which broke away in : a gale, was seen above Glasgow. NEW NAVAL BASE. Lord Tweedmouth,- -First Lord of the Admiralty, announces that contracts are being taken to establish a naval bi*so at. Rosyth to accommodate 112 wamhips. The work will be completed in a decade. Received 9.57 p.m., .-December- 4th. THE ALL RED ROUTE. : LONDON, Dec. 4. Mir Retve-, High Commissioner for New Zealand, thinks there is an excellent prospect of the " All-red Route" committee recommending a scheme for the At-hmtie-Paeinc service affording the desired spaed and not involving a prohibitive subsidy. He considers it, unlikely that, the Br'f-ish Government will subsidise the Atlantic section only, since that would not aord the Imperial advantages desired. THE CONGO. BRUSSELS, December 3. The Bclg'iu *md Congo Stale plenipotentiaries have fc'gnud the annexation treaty.

A STATUE DEFACED. BOMBAY, December 3. Some miscreant has defaced General Nicholson V status at .Delhi. ROBBERIES AND MURDERS. ST. PETERSBURG, December 3. A man and woman (dressed as such), requested shelter at a farm in Sosnowici', Poland. Tlia farmer drove the man at night to the village to fetch a eloctor for the supposed woman, and the man killed

and robbed the farmer. Meanwhile, the woman, who was a disguised man, tried to rob the farmer's wife. Sh-.» pie.tendrd to yield her valuables, and while the robber was inspecting them, she killed him with an axe. Wh?n the other robb-r returned, flic killed him while he was entering the door. IMPORTANT DECISION. CAPETOWN, Dec. 4. The .Supreme Court has decided that under 'ihet Civil iScrvice Acts tlie Government are not permitted to retrench civil servants l . AN AMBASSADOR SUMMONED. TOKIO, Dec. 4. Viscount Aoki, Japanese Ambassador at -Washington, lun baen summoned to Tokio to discus the immigration question