BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13914, 27 May 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright THE GERMAN VISITORS. LONDON, May 2i>. Many entertainments are heiiig given to the Berlin municipal councillors nowvisiting England. The King received the Berlin municipal deputation at Buckingham Palace. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. The estate of the late Mr Frederick Gorringe, draper, is valued at £673,627. He bequeathed £400,000 to charities upon his widow's death. THE WARNER. ESTATE. LONDON, May .26. The late Mr Charles Warner's estate has .been valued at £4450. VALUABLE MINERAL. Mr T.'H.'Y.' Bower, an Australian engineer,,. lias discovered near Guarda, Portugal, a lode containing 50 percent. of oxide of uranium, wlii;;h is superior to pitchblende for the purpose of' producing radium. A British syndicate lias secured the control of the Portuguese properties. THE GERMAN NAVY. BERLIN, May 25. ■ Herr Keester, president of the German Navy ,League, . in .a. speech declared; that Germany needed more cruisers, and a. seventeenth battleship was required for'use against anybody and everybody desiring to disturb her peaceful development. . . Received 11.20 p.m., May 26th. THE SOCI AL "DEMOCR ATS. BERLIN, May 26. The German Social Democrats refuse to "share in the festivities in connection witli the visit of the British „ Labour members of the, House of Commons, on the ground that Liberal members of the Reichstag are included among the members of the reception committee.