BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13682, 26 August 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Pfre3S Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright KENTUCKY NIGHT RIDERS * s NEW YORK. August ss. . Owing to the night-riders' campaign;''the American Tobacco TrrKst announces' ifhat its buyers will henceforth forsake Kentucky l aud transact business from jGineinnati/ It intends to concentrate its suppliffi in Ohio. '/' . DREADNOUGHTS FOR RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, August 24. Russia has accepted German' designs for four large Dreadnoughts to be built at' St. Petersburg. A GERMAN SCANDAL.BERLIN, August 26. Prince Philip Eulenbevgs R(sn quarrelled with his father, and was parried in London to a performer in '.'■} *?(«.', German music hall. FRANCE'S POPULATION. LONDON, August 24. Renter states that the latest statistics show that deaths in 1907 in France numbered 794,000, and the births 774,000. This is the first instance of any country's deaths exceeding the •births,;

THEj.NAVY. The "Daily News" and other Radical papers bitterly opprine. the increased navy programme on the lints, stated in . the " Westminster Gazette'' and. other paper'?, which are now considered .-'certain. SUBMARINE HERO!

Lieutenant Groves, one of the heroes of the submarine Number 9 disaster -on July 15th, has new recovered. his memory. Th?'recollection- of incidents of his youth is gradually returning, and' it. is hoped that he will soon remember those surrounding the disaster. Ho is'[physically improving. . ..ROYAL..VIRIt. LONDON,; August 25. Queen Alexandra and -Princess Victoria have embarked at Dundee on a visit; to Norway and Denmark. • ; .. Received 10.40 p.m., August 25th. OFFICERS ON FURLOUGH. ."' VIENNA," AufTust :: 2s. Arslria and Russia have [ gran ted their geiidarmriis officers a prolonged furlough.