BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13980, 16 August 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE'. LONDON', August, 13. The Primrose League membership h:is reached two million. * BOMBAY STEAM SERVICE. Tin- Peninsula Company has placet! two steamers ol' 7(100 tons in the Hornhay service. There will he only one class for passengers who will pay second class rates. The Company is seeking to eater lor junior members ol' the civil and n.Hilary services. JAPANESE ART COLLECTION. A priceless collection of Japanese works ol' art, never before seen in England and very seldom in Japan, is to he included in the Anglo- Japanese exhibition. PRINCESSES RODBED. Swell mobsmen robbed the Russian Princess Cagarine, of jewellery and cash valued at- £12,000, at the Savoy Hotel, St. Moritz. Princess Bismark, who is staying nt the Hotel Belvedere, was also robbed. STRAWBERRY GROWERS . It is estimated that the wet season cost. English strawberry-growers £450.000. TO VISIT AUSTRALIA. Miss .Muriel Matters, a leading suffragette, has arranged for a lecturing tour of Australia. STANFORD WHITE'S MURDERER. NEW YORK, August 13. The judge refused Harry Thaw's appeal for release on the ground that he is .still irresponsible. Seventy-seven witnesses were examined, and the evidence of 10 others was read. SELLING PARDONS. PARIS, August 13. Captain Marix, reporter for the central court-martial at Paris, has been .sentenced to a year's imprisonment, and his-two accomplices imprisoned for offering to sell pardons to prisoners. THE. CHANNEL SWIM. Montagu Holbein, after being twelve hours in the water, covered twenty miles in an attempt to swim the channel. Pie failed owing to sickness.