BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13918, 1 June 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press -Assoeiation-By Telegraph-Copyright EXCHANG E OF' TEACHERS. LONDON, May M. The Board of Education of Britain has arranged with the French and Prussian Ministers' of Education to exchange assistant secondary school teachers. ,"•-.:' THE ROGERS ESTATE. Mr Henry Rogers, who died last week, leaving a fortune estimated at £20,000,000, bequeathed his wife £20,000 annually, and to his brother's family an income of £BO.OOO. The residue is divided between his son and three daughters, who receive none of the principal until they roach the age of 40. " . ' Received 9.50 p.m., May 31st. SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLYDE. LONDON, May 31. The output of the Clyde ship yards in May was 405,800 tons, or 28,492 above that of May, 1908. The now orders represented 45,000 tons. MINERALS NEAR THE POLE. The Germans are making inquiry from the commercial view of the minerals discovered in South Victoria Land. A firm at Hamburg offers to subscribe largely to any company which is formed to work monazite if Lieutenant Shackleton's detailed reports prove favourable. THE CONDOR. FOUND. An English naturalist named Dale reports that the warship Condor, which has been missing since 1901, was found submerged two miles from the coast near Barclay, British Columbia. A FRAUDULENT BANKER. OTTAWA, May 30. Philippe Rey, formerly Speaker of the Quebec Legislature, and manager of the defunct Banque Sainte Jean of Quebec, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for furnishing false returns to the Government. Rey attempted to commit suicide. DARING ROBBERY. NEW YORK, May 30. Four men, armed with revolvers, entered a Seventh Avenue restaurant in New York, close to the WaldorfAstoria Hotel, early in the morning, and held up a score of customers, who were eating their suppers. They robbed the customers and escaped. Received 11.10 p.m., May 31st. WORLD PROBLEMS. ST. PETERSBURG, May 31. The Russian newspapers-quote extracts from the "Times" Empire Day supplement. The " Seeovo " expresses profound admiration for the British understanding of world problems, especially in their unswerving struggle for the maintenance of the equilibrium. THE CASABLANCA INCIDENT. BERLIN, May 81. It is announced in Berlin that Germany and France have expressed mutual regrets at the Casablanca incident, so far as the respective officials blamed in the arbitration award are concerned.