BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13653, 23 July 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Kress>Assockl'i6h-By : Telegraph-Copyriglit SAVING SHIPWRECKED CREW. LONDON, Only 21: •Mrs Tost, a.- millionaire's wife, , and other laities were motoring past Monbuck Point, when they faw a shipwrecked crew on the Point. They fired life-saving rockets, and saved twenty-four of thw.e aboard the -vessel. ■ SPEED OF MOTOR BUSES. Yielding to public agitation, the London Comity Council is reducing the- speed-of motor ommibuse.s in thoroughfares. THE JOEL-SIEVIER CASE. Sievier's trial on a, charge of blackmailing Joel is proceeding at Old Bailey, the grand jury having found a. true bill. DINIZULU'S SALARY. LONDON, July 22. - Colonel Seeljy of the Foreign Office, states ihat the Imperial Government have decided (o pav Diniznhi's salary. THE ANTI-SUFFRAGETTES. The women's national anti-suffrage league have issued a stirring manifesto appealing to the patriotism and commonseiine of England to defeat the snffragiet movement. Received 9.30 p.m., July 22nd. A CARLE CORRECTION. Renter announce that Admiral Rojhdiest vensky is alive. A mistake occurred through confusion between two persons of tlia same name. Revived 9.7)6 p.m., July 22nd. GERMANS ORDERED OFF. The presence of ilia German gunboat Zielen !u the vicinity of the Briti.-h naval manoeuvres canned com men I. Several Germans who were watching from a steam trawler were warned off.

OBITUARY. NEW YORK; July 22. The death is- reported of Bishop Polter, of New York. FrGHTTNC. IN PERSIA. . -TEHERAN,/ July 22. During fierce fighling at Tabriz on Monday there were. 2QQ casualties.