BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13713, 1 October 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

■<+> P£tms Aswjciation-By Telegraph-Copy rign LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. LONDON*, Sept. 29. Sir Georgi? Truscott. has been elected Lord Mayor of London. He was born in 1857. and i> the eldest son of the late .-tlderman Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott. who was Lord Mayor of London in 1879 and 1880. Tlie new Lord Mayor was a Common Councilman of the City of London in 1882 to 1895: and was elected Alderman of Dowgate Ward. City of London. in .succession to his laje father in 1895. He was Alderman of the City of London in 1902 and 1903, and Sheriff of l,ondon in the same years. He is a. Governor of St. Bartholomew's, St. Thomas', and Bethlehem Hospitals, and of Queen Ann's Bounty. BOOK WAR ENDED. The " Daily News" states that the " Times" lias joined the Publishers' Associatioir"thu» ending the hook war. Received 12.50 a.m., October l'-t TRAINING NEW ZEALAND!-:US. LONDON. Sept. 30. The "Standard" strenuously .support:* Sir .1. G. Wards suggestion for a an owar for the naval training of 1000 young New Zt-alanders. LONG SERVICE DECORATION'. King Edward has treated 'ong servicdecoration fi>r commissioned uf'i.vr:. i'f the territorial .force. EARL WITH tiIFTKD VOICE. 'l*ie "Daily Mail" a^>er 4 that the Earl of Shaftesbury has declined an offer ..f £IOOO a week for 30 weeks for a concert lour in America. The Karl is gifted with a I>- tit if ill tenor voice.

AK<;i:vns'K A.vn akmtratiox. HI'KXOS AYRKS, Sept. 29. The Argentin"' hxs approved of the arbitration treaty wit It Kni7.il. K()KK.NT FIKKS KXTIXCI'ISHKD. Xi:\V YOKK. Sept. 29. Copious raiiiß hav<- exunguir.h<d the fores i tiiiii in the I'nit.d States .-xcr-pt in the Ailironil.uki.. D A I.AI I. AMA AT I'EKIX. I'F.KIX. Sept. 29. Tin- Dalai l~un.i. accompanied by 80 attendant* has arrived .it IVkin. He was w.hoin-,1 by the authorities and «m-orted in Si.it- the < llo\v I,ain:ir^en*i.