BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13829, 15 February 1909, Page 6

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright CONSULS FOR CHINA. PEKIN, Feb. 12. China is ; establishing a ConsulateGeneral at Ottawa and a Vice-Consu-late at' Vancouver. " CHANCELLOR ARRESTED. LONDON, Feb. 12. The-Chancellor of Santiago, Beckert, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling £IOOO. A body found in the ruins of the chancellory at Santiago was identified as that of a porter who had been stabbed previously, and it was supposed had absconded. VISIT TO CANADA. Mr Lyttelton, Colonial Secretary in 3JV Balfour's Government, will visit Canada in' 1909. WAR OFFICE CONTRACTS. Referring to the "War Office 'placing a contract for tinned meat with a Chicago firm, the newspapers state that it is due to colonial packere' inability to supply the quantity and quality. Representatives of colonial packers state that they did not tender owing to their objection to the replacement clause. ' The "War Office informed Mr Taverner, Agent-Genera! for Victoria, that it will shortly invite tenders for half a million pounds of meat for delivery in the autumn. CHEATED THE GALLOWS. Received 4.15 p.m., Feb. 14th. LONDON, Feb. 13. Hefeld, the Tottenham murderer, has succumbed to the effect of his injuries. MEDAL FOR BRAVERY. The committee of Lloyd's has conferred the Society's silver medal „ on Captain Ranson, of the steamship Baltic, in connection with the rescues from the wreck of the Republic. REVIVAL OF TRADE. Orders for 30,000 of new tonnage have been placed with Clyde shipbuilders. Full time is being resumed in some of the yards. TRADE RELATIONS. The British ' Chamber of Commerce l&s been greatly stirred lately by the prospect of losing a large proportion of trade under the projected French tariff revision, and protests have been made. It is declared that the changes are likely to damage the entente. It is now annoanced that the French Government have decided to oppose a number of the proposals which were embodied in the Customs Committee's Bill, on the ground that they are calculated to unfavourably affect France's relation with foreign Powers. The committee contend that the Bill represents only one million of surcharge upon foreign trade compared with the two million surcharge on French trade under foreign tariffs. RETURNING HOME. BERLIN, Feb. 13. King Edward and Queen Alexandra started on their return to London in spverely- cold weather.