BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13696, 11 September 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Pfress Association-By Telegraph-CopyrigM ,SO I"I H AUSTRALIAN LOAN. LONDON, Sept, 9. The "Times'" states that the South Australian loan will appear within a few da vs. A STARTLING CONFESSION. The ex-Minister of Justicei at Copenhagen has been arrested at Alberta, Canada, on his own confession of forging, and defrauding the Zealand Peasants' Savings Bank, whereof he was a director, of £500,000. OMNIBUS TRAFFIC. Tlu« Oeueral Omnibus Company carried 12.658.000 fewer passengers in 1907 than in 1906. This was chiefly owing to the competition of the tube railway*. SALVING A WARSHIP. The salvJhs Lave righted the wrecked cruiser Gladiator, and hope to float her slxortlv. " MEALS FOR CHILDREN. Children at Glasgow under five, are receiving three free meals a day. A SUPPOSED SPY. PARIS, Sept. 9. A supposed German spy Mas arrested in attempting to purchase parts of guns from the magazine at Bournes. CATHOLIC CLERGY. During the past three years there has been a decrease of 70 per cent." in the applicants for Catholic ordination in France owing to the precarionsness of the voluntary contributions for the support of the clergy.