BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13866, 31 March 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press ■A LONDON, March 20. Mr J. B. Whiting, acting AgentGeneral for South Australia, .in a letterto the "Times" contradicts the rumour upon the-authority of his.Government, that another South Australian loan is about, to be placed on the London market. :, •Received 1.25 a.m., March 31st. N.Z.S CO. . LONDON,' March ,30. The New Zealand Shipping Company have declared a dividend of 5 per cent. MR ROOSEVELT. INDANGERS. Mr Roosevelt has arrived, at-the Azores. During the voyage an insand Italian who was a.-Steerage passenger assaulted Mr Roosevelt.' Tho attempt was frustrated, and the man .placed in irons. SIR GEORGE CLARKE. . CALCUTTA, March 20,' . Sir George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay,- whose : wife and only daughter have both died recently, has sailed on a health cruise for Aden. GERMAN POLITICAL PARTIES. ..-'.-... Rerun, March 29. : The King of Saxony, . speaking at Karlsruhe Castle, called upon the Federal princes to reject any interference by the Bloc with the States' prerogatives of taxation. FUSS OVER MARRIAGE. * NEW YORK, March 29. As the laws of California and Oregon prohibit the marriages of-whites with Orientals, Miss Emery arid the Japanese Gungiro A.oki. were married at Seattle. .The Mayor of Taeoma has issued a notice that if the' couple appeared in the streets they would be arrested as a public, nuisance. :' ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS. Advices from Oklahama state that the United States troops .had a sharp encounter with Creek Indians at Henrietta. Twenty of the-latter . were killed. ' ■ • .