BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13679, 22 August 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Bressi Associatfon-By ATLANTIC STEAMLN.G. ■ NEW YORK, August 20. . The Lusitahia oh the voyage to New York steamed 650 nautical miles in. 24 hours. A WOMAN SMUGGLER. NEW YORK, August 21. Mrs Jack Gardener, p.ocially: prominent in Boston, attempted to smuggle into America £IB,OOO worth of art objects, alleging that; they were dry ■ goods, used in Europe. Upon detection she. was fined! £BO,OOO, which with the. duty' of £6OOO, was immediately, paid. Received 11.40 p.m., August- 21st. THE COLLIERY DISASTER. LONDON, August- 21. Twenty-eight bodies have now heen recovered from Maypole colliery. The revise/1! death roll numbers 76. The pit l has bren flooded to exiihgufih the fire. COTTON OPERATOR BITTEN. - Mr Livermore, a cotton opfrator, sold, owinn to more propitious weather, 200,000 bales at New York, Liverpool, and New Orleans yesterday,, his day's loss being £180,000." Received 9.50 p.m., August 21st. NEW OCEAN LINER, The New Zealand ; Shirrojiig Company have ordered afc Dumbarton a longer and l finer sister ship than the Otaki. THE CONGO STATE. BRUSSELS, August- 21. The Belgian Chamber by 83 votes 'to 54 votes agreed to a treaty -of annexation with the Congo, also a law whereby the colony will be administered. AERIAL NAVIGATION. BERLIN, August- 21. A military airship-and Parseval balloon manoeuvred for two' jinn's, '"and met over Branderhurg gate.,,.. o-- *0 yards above the other. They ;sai' *\-m the Unter der Linden to -the< arser