BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13939, 26 June 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association-tsy Telegraph-Copyright AMERICAN ENTERPRISE. LONDON, June 24. The Western American Railway Companies are opening an agency in Sydney. Mr Sproul, late, of the Oceanic Steamship Company, will be manager. REQUEST FROM AUSTRALIA. LONDON, June 25. Router states that the Commonwealth Government have asked the War Office for Viscount Kitchener's services as military adviser. HEAT WAVE IN NEW YORK. NEW. YORK, June 24. Great heat is being experienced in New York, 90 degrees being registered in the shade. Many deaths arc recorded, and 20,000 poor people arc sleeping every night on Coney Island beach. AERIAL NAVIGATION. "Wright aeroplanes arc being built for the German army.' WONDERFUL INVENTION. Exi>erts speak well of the invention of the brothers Andersen, of Copenhagen for the transmission of light and colour, whereby a telephonist ."s visible, from the other end, and is able to show anything he likes across the wire. Received 11.35 p.m., June 25th. SALE OF DIAMONDS. PARIS. June 25. The blue Hope diamond lias been sold in Paris for £16,000. Six other diamonds lately belonging to the women of Abdul Hamid's harem sold for £22,000. GERMAN TAXATION PROPOSALS. BERLIN, June 25. The Reichstag by 124 votes to 1.80 votes rejected the Government's inheritance tax. The Socialists supported Prince Billow.