BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13652, 21 July 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

l* re si \ssoisialioii-l»y Tetegraph- Copyright • CHURCH AMENITIES. LONDON,. July 19. A large deputation, including Bishop Beverley" Bishop Hall and the Dean."of York, expressed to the Wfsleyan Conference the Anglican Church's sympathy wth the aims and purpose* of the Weslevans. The Archbishop of York sent cordial wishes. A DUKE'S ESTATE. . The late Duke of Devonshire's nefc personally for probate, amounts to £1,075,132! * ' : LOCAL LOANS. LONDON, July 19. Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, '.states that the outstanding loans of local authorities in England and Wales total 183 millions sterling. AN INEFFECTIVE BEQUEST. LONDON, July -20. •The late Mr Alfred Beit's legacy of £25,000 to the London University Institute of Medical Sciences Fund has been returned to the executors, owing to failure to execute the. scheme intended. FRENCH PRESIDENT ON TO DR. PA BIS, July 20. President Fallieries and M. Pichon, aboard the battleship Yf-rite, started' on a-visit to the Czar, Sweden, and Denmark. ; . Received 11.30 p.m.. Jnly : 9.oth. BRAZIL'S W ARSH IPS. RIO JANEIRO, 11% 20. Brazil denies thai she is willing to sell her battleships to anyone. MORTALITY IN MINES. CAPETOWN, July 20. Tha mortality of the Nyassaland natives in the Rhodesian mines exceeds 500 per 1000 a. year/ FRANCE AND GERMANY. RERUN, July 20. Responding to the conciliatory newspaper articles published by M. Oervais, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies, flerr Erzbercer, the reporter of Ihe war budget in the Reichstag, suggests that- it. would be easy to arrange a complete settlement- of the Moroccan difficulty if a l>etter understanding between France and Germany were established. Even the Macedonian problem might, be solved if France and Germany became joint mediators. ASSASSINATION. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 19. General Ohman Heyda was assassinated at. the barracks at Monastir by an officer concerned with the "Young Turkey movement.