BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13803, 14 January 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Associ;ition-Bv Telegraph-Copyright CONFERENCE r OF AERONAUTS. LONDON,; Jan. 11.

An -aeronautic conference which will last throe days has commenced at the Kitz Hotel, London. j/l'Wty delegates from different countries arc present. The conference decided to found prizes totalling £-1-8,000 for aviation competition, and appointed a committee to discuss with the various ('('overmnents the: regulation of the traffic of aerial navigation. TKEATMKNT OF 'INKBRiATHS.

Tin* 'report of the I departmental Committee! notes the decided failure to apply the Inebriates Act. H suggests that offenders should he treated on a graduated scale, beginning witn measures of the mildest character and increasing in stringency. If leniency is ineffectual- it suggests that some new method::: of dealing with criminal inebriates should he adopted. The Committee hold that no permanent settlement is possible except on the basis of State responsibility. Received 10.20 n.m., Jan. lath. ILLUSTRATED LECTURES. LONDON, Jan. 13.

The Colonial Office's visual instruction 'committee. has issued seven lectures on the United Kingdom illustrated by lantern slides. Lectures on the colonies and India, the cost ol which will lie defrayed by a special fund' raised by the committee presided over by. Lady Dudley and under th:> Princess of Wales' patronage, will be issued this year. .^

RISING IN SOMALTLAND.

A Somali mullah looted 20;000 camels and killed many friendly natives. Fcnr-

ing that the British protector.".to may hq attacked, 300 King's. African Rifhs have arrived at Berbera I'rnni Nyasal, and also an Indian contingent of 'IOO from Bombay.

MILITARY MISSION. MOROCCO, Jan. 12. Mtilai Tin fid welcomed the French military mission to Fez.

SUBSTANTIAL COMPENSATION. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 12. The Czar's compensation to Mr Luxemberg, the London merchant who was imprisoned at Odessa, amounts to ■£7ooo. BRITAIN'S INFLUENCE. Svo:i Uedin, the Swedish explorer, interviewed at Moscow, said that Britain's influence in, Tibet was waning, and the country war, becoming a Chinese province. There were many Chinese officials in the garrisons. AERIAL TORPEDO. BERLIN, Jan. 12. ICmpp's are. constructing an aerial torpedo. A GERMAN. CABLE. The first section of the German cable to Pernanibuco will bo laid from Bcrkum to Teneriffe, the second then *o to Monrovia in 1909, and the third from Monrovia to Pernambuco early in lf)10. ■ THE KING'S VISIT TO GERMANY. The German commercial and middle classes desire to specially welcome King Edward to Berlin. The merchant elders propcno.tr> give the King a welcome' in the great hall of the Stock Exchange. ADDRESS BY THE K.MSER. •' BERLIN, Jan. 13.

; The Kaiser, addressing the Grenadier Guards at Berlin, of which the Emperor Josef is honorary colonel, eulogised the Eniperor 'Josef's loyalty to the .triple alliance, and remarked that more arduous days might come when a trne ally would be of greater value. EARTHQUAKE' IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, Jan. I?. An earthquake .it Pert Townsend, in Jefferson County, broke the waterpipes, flooding the bonces. An extinct volcano at Mount Raker, was active for a .time.

AUSTRIA AND TURKEY: VIENNA, Jan.. TO

The Grand Vizier has accented Austria's offer of compensation after vainly claiming another -C500.000. The Vienna Bourse "was grratly excited at the settlement, between Austria and Turkey, and stocks .rcsc considerably.