BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13865, 30 March 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Tress Assodatioh-By Telegraph-Copyright. 'AUSTRALIAN WINES-' LONDON, March 28. At the instance of Mr Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria., and with a, v view to safeguarding the interests of producers of Australian wines which carry a greater proportion of alcohol compared" with French wines/Mr Chu. chill, President of the Board of Trade, decided to hear Australian objectors to Franco's overtures for a new treaty for French wines, to facilitate the export to Britain of their wines. A NEW COMPANY. The Bovril Australian Estates, Limited, has a capital of £250,000. The directors are Lord Brassey, Sir Edward Wittenoonv and Mr Kirwan. The Hon. C. H. Eason will assume the chairmanship of the Board upon' retiring in October from his present position as Agent-General for West Australia. A MISSING POET. Mr John Davidson, poet awl playwright, has been missing from his home at Penzance;' Cornwall/ for several ia>S '- DEATH OF A FORGER. The death is announced of 'William RouMl, formerly member for Lambeth, who iu 1862 -was sentenced to penal servitude for life for self-confessed forgerv. A NEW STEAMER. The Orient Company's steamer Otrauto has been launched at Belfast. THE'■PRESS CONFERENCE. The Foreign Office programme at the Imperial Press Conference includes the consideration of the following subjects:—Cable news,, service and press iritor-commu ideation under the chairmanship of the Ear) of Crewe', and in the, presence of Mr Buxton, Mr Austen Chamberlain, Mr McKenna, Mr Haldane; Mr Balfour, and Sir Edward Grey; literature under the chairmanship of Lord Morley. Received ■ 11.50 p.m., March 29th. ANGLO-JAPANESE EXHIBITION. LONDON, March 29. The Anglo-Japanese Exhibition will be held at Shepherd's Bush in' 1910. The Japanese Government are keenly supporting' the. scheme. MILITARY MISSION. NEW YORK, March 28. Major-General Hoad, InspectorGeneral of the Australian Military Forces, was cordially welcomed by President Taft on his arrival in America. The authorities will give him the fullest facilities to visit the. military centres and fortifications. '" " DISORDERLY CROWD. SAN FRANCISCO, March 23. Miss Helen Emery, daughter of a Calil'ornian Archdeacon, is engaged to marry Gimgiro Aoki, a relative of .Count Aoki, a' Japanese Privy Councillor. Several thousands mobbed Miss Emery at a San Francisco railway station, shouting vile epithets. Newspaper correspondents finally rescued the gul, " .. ;

OPPOSING A PLAY.' VIENNA, Mareli 29. The newspapers of Berlin are actively opposing' the "production of the play '■' An Englishman's 'Home 1 ' in GermiiTiy, on the ground ~of its antiGerman tendencies. GUN-RUNNING.- j . CALCUTTA, March 29. The British gunboat Lapwing and the special service vessel Sphinx have hastily sailed from Bombay, for the Persian Gulf owing to a" recrudescence, of gun-running.