BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13463, 9 December 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copy right THE HAVEMEYER ESTATE. NEW YORK, Dec. 7. T!he eltate of Mr Havemi-yea-, the Anglican ".sugar king," is valued at £15,000,CCO. He bequeated £750.000 <to charities. 1 JIIHE ATLANTIC RECORD. The Mametania beat the eastward lecord by twenty minutes.

THE NEW NAVAL BA&E. LONDON. Dee. 7

The Admiralty will coir-tmct forthwith at Rosyth, a naval bavin with an aim of 56 acres, and w depth of 36 feat ait all tides. Tlu'ie will be a quay space for 22 battleship*, or 44 banked two abreast, and with a lock, it will ulway> be accessible to the huge-it -uarship, giving access to the bas';n. The Admiralty is al v o cou."■'liucting a graving dock. .\ PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT.

Mr D. .S. Adam*, of Gieenock, ihas been appointed Profe'-sor of Church History and Systematic Thcologj- at Oiniond College ) Melbourne. ZOOLOGICAL l-:XPEDITIONS.

M'r J. Hoif-burgh, and an asisistant, aie about to leave' for New Guinea, wheie they will make a collection of fauna in conmecdioai, with the Royal Zoological Society's exhibition of Australasian fauna, to b° held in June next. Mr fc'eth-Sanith, a member of the Council of 'the- Zoological Society, is ailso proceeding to Australia to ■secure collections of fauna. He offers other collection in return.

Received 0.40 a.m.. December 9th. KING OSCAR DYING. STOCKHOLM, December 8 King Oscar is dying.