BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13907, 19 May 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

I'rcss Association-By Telegrapb-Copvri'gbl A GENEROUS BEQUEST. LONDON, May 17. Mr James Duncan, of Blyth, Perthshire, has bequeathed £(50,000 to establish a School of Industrial Art at Dundee. THE EDUCATION RATES. In order to reorganise a passive resistance, movement against the education rates, a new Passive Resistance League has been established by militant Free Churchmen. Dr Clifford is president. THE SWINBURNE ESTATE. The estate of the late Mr Algernon Swinburne, the poet, is valued at £20.000. ANGLO-JAPANESE EXHIBITION. LONDON, May 18. The holding of an Anglo-Japanese exhibition in London in 1910 is now assured, and the project, is being warmly supported, especially in the manufacturing centres of Lancashire and Yorkshire Continental'enquiries show that groups of German and French artisans and others intend to come across and study Japanese m;"infaotures and ascertain Japan's needs. GUARDS AS TRAIN ROBBEHS. PARIS, May 17. Fifteen railway guards have been arrested and charged at Marseilles with a series of Riviera train robberies. They opened the passengers' trunks with •skeleton keys. Received 10..57 p.m.. May IS) li. THE PRESS CONFERENCE. OTTAWA, May IS. Th" ladies accompanying the I'rcss delegates to the Imperial Press Conference were entertained at luncheon at Toronto: then the entire party were taken for an automobile drive. A banquet was given in the National Club in the evening, and to-day the party, as tho guests of the Toronto Government, visit Niagara falls. IN LIQUIDATION. NEW YOHK. May IS. A Receiver has been appointed for Tracy and Company, a stock exchange firm of New York and Chicago. Their liabilities are one million dollars.