BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13941, 29 June 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press ■Association.'By.-,Telegraph-pf> l »yrig'lit

- , AMERICAN SOCIETY'CASE

NEW YORK, June.27

The Court has allowed Mrs Howard Gould alimony amounting to £7200 per annum, and exonerated her from her husband's- charges of impropriety and habitual intoxication. The Court \vas crowded for many days during the hearing of" the case. Scandalous details were, divulged. / - Received 9.30 p.m., June 28th. BEEF TRUST OPPOSED. NEW YORK, June 25., According to the "New York Times," with a view of forestalling the/Chicago packers, half; the capital is being, subscribed in America and half in England to establish' a company to ..Tim .five steamers, commencing in. October, to bring Argentine frozen-beef -to - New York and return -with coal. The company intends to erect a-packing plant at Buenos Ayres... -

AMERICA AND CANADA. . The United States Senate.: have adopted Senator'; Aldrieh's amendment enabling 'President Taft, to impose a double duty on p.ulp, and impose a duty of- 8 dollars per , ton on • news-print paper, if. Canada maintains her restrictions against--±he v -export of pulp and wood. '; ..- ~ .._ TESTINCJ-vTORPEDGES.; LONDON, June c 7. ' Torpedoes ; costing' £3OOO, ■ and containing 198Glbs v .of which jvere directed .wirelessly -ar long distance, were tested on'tlie Seine, and according 1 tos the "Daily Chronicle," proved wonderfully successful: ;.-' KING OPENS MUSEUM. King Edward .opened the Victoria and Albert, museum, with n brilliant ceremony. .He knighted Mr- Cecil Smith, the 'director, and. created Mr Aston-.Webb,:; the, architect, ,:.n Companion pf the-Bath.' King .Edward emphasised his: parents' interest in applied decorative art.'- . . '*'■'■■■ INTERCHANGE OF STUDENTS. LONDON, June 28. A movement, /which is being '.. influentially supported, has been . initiated for an international interchange of students. It., is , proposed tp make a three years'- cxporrnienT-'at a' cost' of £.4500 per annum, :.nd establish' fourteen travelling scholarships, /available at the universities of the United Kingdom, ten -in ; . America, and; - four, in Canada; also■':to, establish bureaux in New York and/London ,to furnish.-in-formation relating to American,- Canadian, British' and other English-speak-ing universities; The honorary' secretary of the movement' is. Mr Cress, of the University.-Cliib, Birmingham. GERMAN DREADNOUGHTS. Received 12.15. a.m., June 29th. .. ; ":,"'' JIERLIN, - June 28. The Dreadnoughts Nassau and AVestfalen are each armed with twelve 11inch, twelve 6-inch,- and sixteen 31inch guns, and.will-enter the German service in the coming autumn, and the third Dreadnought, the Rheinland, in the spring of 10-10.