BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13646, 14 July 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Telegraph-Copyright

;<■ A GREAT-RECEPTION. ;*!.:■ LONDON, July- 12, ; /•■Five thousand competitors representing, 'twenty-two countries,-were }'uesenb at! %\\% reception • given by the Council of ;'i'he- Olympic gaiins. at the Grafton galleries to mark (he inauguration of the 'meeting. ; A SURPRISE VISIT. • The.Kaiser, aboard the Imperial yacht 'paid a surprise, visit to -Admiral Ber<s-. ford's fleet.oft" ; the. Norwegian coast. After •passing through the lines he sailed away. A SENSATIONAL CASE; '-. .1. •B- Joel's, evidence..in thsl Sievier 'case, is full• of serisaij'onal details, of.! defamation. The attempts, to borrow money, extended- over; years. In crcss-examina-tdon Joel admitted that a warranthad been issued for his arrest, in Johannes-; liurg 25 years ago, but il ,: was,afterwards, .withdrawn. • ; ' ROYAL GARDEN PARTIES. Several 'Trade., Union r members of the ■House of .Commons, dissent from ;ihe In : . dependent Labour Parly's decision re- : . garding Air Keir Hardie's non-invitation io ijie King's garden parly. The Parly askeid that: in future none of its members be invited (o. these, functions because. Mi; Hardift was omitted, from .the last owing, to his remarks on the ICingls. visit to Rus-, sia. '

MR CHAMBERLAIN'S HEALTH. LONDON, .July. 13.

:''. Mir Chamberlain is greatly benefited by his .'stay at Aisles Bains, and is proceeding Io Paris slowly by automobile,

Received . 51.40. p.m,, July.'lSHh,

DARING ROBBERY OF DIAMONDS. PARTS, July 13..

,' M.- Peyreuse, the representative of a ■Paris firm, was robbed, at -Oenoa 'of .':ii waßet containing worth of diamonds. He had, momentarily, deposited the, wallet on the floor of a hotel whileanswering a telephone message.

FRANCE AND.OA-NADA. . OTTAWA; Jiilr -13

"In the Dominion House 'of Commons; .Ml-;' \V. S. Fielding, the;. French Senate V, delay". iii approving the Franco-Canadian rommeroial treaty, admitted that th? French' Government was doing its utmost to secure approval, 'hut; hinted that non-approval would probably •render the * denunciation of '■ the treaty.of 1893 unavoidable. .••