BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13708, 24 September 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

. Pfress Asso ciation-By Telegraph-Copyright ..-FATIGUED AN"D ; ALARMED. •. , • - . v . iiDNDON, Sept."?2. ; Miss ter's: daughter, while returning in the Evening to tbe cliffs •in the vicinity ..of Slainisr CastW, Aberdeenshire, to recover a book, fainted through fatigue and alarm at .the darkngss. After some two hours' March helper found .her_. lying still un : "coriscioris near the edge of the cliff. She is now recovering. ' STEAMERS FOR. AUSTRALIAN : ' TRADE.. James. Gardiner . and Co., of, Glasgow, have ordered, to be built on the Clyde, three steamers of 7000 tons each for service in the Eastern Australian and American trader' A LUDICROUS CONTRAST. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Times" contrasts the ludicrous sanitary arrangements'at St. "Petersburg with'the Splendidly \eqpipped_ hospital' and the st rike; of gravediggers.. ; CRUiiLaS TO; AN ELEPHANT. Hagenbacb's manager -at the FrancoBritlsh"EsHi 6iti on,' Vas "fined for forcing an elephant to desceha the water-chute. LE'ASING AMEFtICiV.N CONVICTS. ■I : " . ; ' NEW .ybßk, Sept. 22. . The. Georgia Legislature, after a prolonged struggle, virtually abolished the convict, leasing, system. CONFESSION OF Rlt) JANEIRO, Sept. 22. Michael Trades, a Syrian, a passenger by tbe Cordillera, from Santos, was arrested while. trying to throw overboard a trunk containing his employer's body. He confessed to tbe murder' in complicity wjth his employer's wife. He was landed at Rio Janeiro. GERMAN • FINANCIAL CRISIS. BERLIN, Sept. 23. . The " Nord Detitscher . Algenriine Zeitung" states that during the next five years Germany w}ill be compelled to ineet a deficit of from £100,000.000 to £112,000,000, : necessitating increased taxation. '