BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13465, 11 December 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Proas Association-B.Vi Tel/itrraph-Copy.right CURED OF CftttCEß. ST. PETERSBURG, December 9. Several ..Russian physicians- claim- -that radium cured General Poehl of cancer. 'signed■■a certificate:: to.. that effect-. ' _ • GERMAN! - GOODS BOYCOriTED. v \'.'Owing to the Bill to Oermanisfc.Rosen,v many, Wareaw, firms . are boycotting:. Gei-.-:; man goodsi. > SENTENCE ON KIDNAPPERS ,v ; -. 'CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 9. : One 'of Mr Abbott\i kidnappers - at? Salonika has; been .senii&nced.:v years' servitude, another to i.fatfelve years, ana eight- to ten years c A .PORTUGUESE PLOT. LISBON; December 9. An Italian electrician, employed at San Carlos Theatre," Lisbon, was arrested and committed. suicide, after the discovery under the flooring of the Royal box of two bombs, connected with wires reaching behind the stage. - THE''STEEL TRUST.. . NEW YORK, Dec. 9. The Steel Trust has dismissed 50,C00 hands since the . financiaL-panic -began.-.< SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS.

A "hundred "--and forty-one ' stctors and actresses were' arretted in.. Kansas City for a breach of the Sunday -observance law.' Even sacred concerts in New York are inhibited. . - , ; A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE. BOMBAY, December 9. An attempt was made to dynamite a train conveying; Sir M 'H.-.Frasei, Lieut Governor of Bengal, and Lady Eraser, between Warayangar and Benapur. Several isleepers wt?.re, blown to fragments,. and a big hole was made in the ground- Tli-' engine was not derailed, and .no one wa-si hurt.

A POWERFUL KITE. LONDON, December 9. ' A kite, invented by Mr Alexander Graham Bell, lifted . Self ridge, at Malifax,; ICO feet in the air. Received 5.58 p.m.; December 10th. ■AN'APPEAL CASE. LONDON, -December 10. In the I 'case 'New Zealand Shipping Co. v. Stephens, surveyor of taxes'; the' Court •of -Appeal dismissed the appeal against Justice Bray's decision uphokl.mg the income tax commissioner's "light to asseas the company. ■ , Received 10.55; p.m.. December 10l.li. NAVAL' PROMOTIONS It as officially announced/that m March Admiral Sir A. D. Fa.n»liu.\vt; becomieisj Commander-in.-Chief at Portsmouth j ..that Rear-Admiial Sir 'H. 'H. Lanib'ton " take's charge of the China station; Vice-Acl'miral Sir W. H. Fawkes at Devouport; and Rear-Admiral ilk-hard Poole of , the 'Australian si a tiion ILLEGID FMBTZZT 1 MF\T •; Nr\\ IORIv Dec 10. D«lzell Brown, the manager,; Dartnett, a director .and Walker. ihe president of the Californian Safe Deposit Trust Company have bsen arrested on a'.charge of embezzlement.