BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13728, 19 October 1908, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

| PresS Association-By * | . OXFORD PRUi- KHrsOHrfHii-. ! ' LONDON. October 17. ! Mr Oeorge Cilbetc Murray has been i appointed Regius Professor of » reek at i I)xfoi.i. ' . • . SATISFACTORY RECRUITING. Mr Haldane,' - speaking at Caterham, ■said the territorial army how numbers 2G0.C00 ' men, and recruiting is steadiiy proceeding. The army has never Ken more effective. COMPANY IN* LIQUIDATION. .A provisional liquidator hns been appointed in re Wilder arid Riley, on the credtors' pc.ciiion. ' - • ; ANOTHER EXHIBITION. The International and Colonial Exhibition authorities arc* about io organise :i Franco-British Exhibition in th? palaces and ground for the summer and' autumn of 19G9. The consuls and ngefiis of the colonies haxe already been invned to cooperate i;i tae pfan of iSir Inire Kiralfv, C'h'ef Commissioner cf ihe Franco-British Exhibition.

, CHINESE RAILWAYS. The Pekin correspondent of the ' Times" states that" Mr Kinder, engineer-in-chiei of the northern raiiways in China, has resigned - on the ground that he is deprived of all real authority, and that his position has lieeh made .ntolerable T.v the Imperial Government. INDIANS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, kir "Wilfrid Laurier hau arranged in transfer io British Honduru'. with their consen;. all British Indhns now j„ British Columbia. WOMEN AND PROFESSIONS. Tire Royal College of Sttigeons has revived to allow women to compete fosurgical and denial d'plotr.as. CATHOLIC EDUCATION. Archbishop Carr, at fhe inansjnrat ion of the conference of the Catholic Truth Society at Dublin. 11 rued the growili of the Catholic Church in Victoria, and o»sciihi d the astounding progress of Catholic education against .great opposition. Cardinal Logo? : and ArchbVhop Healey participated -in ih> conference. POSTAL ORDERS. , Buxton. IVi-imns'er t leueraj, r.p'ving to Mr Flenrul.er Heaton. he r<* grefied J.hai Canada and .Australia did not participate in the Imperial postal order system. Ho was unable io reduce the charge on postcard* to the colonies. MR. ROOSEVELT'S PLANS. NEW .IORK, October 17. Mr Roosevelt, after his Afrean trip. \vill visit England' early in 1910. his wife joining him at Khartoum cn his journev northwards.