BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13940, 28 June 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Associatiou-By Telegra|>h-Ct>iryrigUt THE MEREDITH ESTATE. . LONDON, June 25. The late George Meredith's .personality has been sworn at £32,185. 'valuable . pictures. ' Turner's picture of the burning of the Houses of Parliament was sold by auction for £13,175. and Constable's picture of Arundel Mill for 8100 guineas. BIKTHDAY HONOURS. The birthday honours include Mr Kenneth Skclton Anderson, chairman of the Orient Company, -who has been made a Commander of the Oder of St. Michael and St. George. PARIS MURDER CASE. * PARIS, June 25. A man named Renaiid, who in February was sentenced to penal servitude for life for murdering his master, M. Remy, a Parisian millionaire, but whose conviction was quashed on a technical ground, has licen retried on the same charge.;' and again sentenced to penal" servitude for life. FRENCH LOTTERIES. M. Clenicnccau, the Premier, has introduced a Bill providing for the suppression of all lotteries/ except those promoted by the Government and public'companies. GERMAN POLITICAL CRISIS. y . BERLIN, June 25. There is much speculation as to whether the Kaiser will dissolve the Reichstag,- or Prince -Billow resign. VICE-REGAL INTERVIEW. Received 5.5 p.m., June 27th. LONDON, June 26. % Sir Harry Rawson, late Governor of New South Wales, on being inter--viewed; on--arrival at Liverpool, said so- far as the wealth of New South Wales was concerned, her people had only scratched'the-"'country'. The State required more population and fewer laws. ROYAL RECEPTION. King Edward and Queen Alexandra received the Duma delegates.