BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13674, 17 August 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Aissociation-By Telegraph-Copyright WINSTON CHURCHILL ENGAGED LONDON, .August 15, An engagement is announced ("between Mr Winston Chuichill, MR (President of the Board of Trade) and' Clementine, daughter of the late Sir Henry Hozier. (Mr Churchill's name was associated with that of Miss Botha, who visited London when hei father, General Botha, Premier of the Tians\aal, attended the last Im penal Conference.) NEW STKAMrP. The P and O Company"s steamer Mor*a Ins been launched on the Clyde. TRANSFERS OF CLERGYMEN The Lambeth Conference resolved that in future no clergyman be allowed to pass from one diocese to another "without direct .communication with the Bishop whose -diocese he is leaving BRITISH AMBASSADORS sSir W E Goschen, British Ambassador ac Vienna, succeeds Su Frank Lascelles as Ambassador at Beilm CURATES FROM ARTISANS LONDON, August 15. The Primate's Committee on the dearth of curites is obtaining the opinions ot labour leaders and others on the sugges tion to obtain curates fiom the artisan class " CHANGE OF CALL It us reported tint, the Cunaid steamers in 1909 will usei Plymouth as a mail port instead of Queenstow n A SWIMMER'S Buigess abandoned lus attempt to swim the Channel alter houis id the water CANADIAN BC,SH, FIRES YANCOUVTR, August 15 Heavy rains have extinguished the bush fires m. British Columbia* * " I " GOVERNMENT DENIAI. BELGRADE, August 14. The ServiaYi Government deny that eithei the Government or the Court has had any relations with M Nisiics, whose statements with reference to an alleged plot aie declaied to bo absurd SEAL FISHFRTFS ST PETERSBURG, Angusr 14 Rta>ia is trying to induce .fapan to adhere to tho Russian Comentions with Britain and America foi the protect on of the seal fisheries. (A previous message Mated that the Japanese pelagic fWk not being bound by the convention piohibitmg the British and American fleets killing seafe within a. zone of sixty miles around the Pribiloo Islands, pursues seals up lo the oidpuiy three mile limit. This so injuriously affects tne British Columbia! sealing industry, that owneis of Biitnh Columbia sealers contemplated placing their \essels under the Japanese flag )

EARL DUDLEY VICTORIA, Augusts 14 Eirl Dudley, the nen Governor General ot Australia, arr \ed at Tittoiu, and sailed in the Aonngi to daj AUTHENTICITY OF WINES PARIS, August 14 The French Agricultural Department 1 is considering a pioposal for the mtroduc tion oE i Government label to guaianfee the authenticity of nines at i cost to the producei of a, penny a bottle The tax will yield annually about £140,000 of revenue.