BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13990, 27 August 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Angociat-ion-By Telngraph-Copyright ADULTERATED LEATHER. LONDON, Avuist 23. Churchill has iuformca Mr Taverner, Agent-General for \ ictoria, that he is doubtful whether a.iv administrative measures exist whereby he can prevent the importation of " loaded." leather. He suggests that the Victorian tanners should take united action to bring the excellence .of their leather before, the public. ♦THE VICTORIAN FLOODS. Sir J'rodyot Kumar Tagore, lion, secretary of the British Indian Association, telegraphed" to Captain Collins, representative of the Commonwealth in London, his sympathy with the sufferers by the Victorian floods. He offers to raise subscriptions if acceptable. r.Axisri Ki). Tolstoi's secretary, M. .Goosef, has been banished for distributing Tolstoi's books, on the ground that the.y are revolutionary. SUICIDE. Lord Eliot committed suicide during a fit of temporary insanity by shooting himself with a gun, at Earl St. German's seat near Plymouth. INTERESTING CONSECRATION. The consecration of Archdeacon Wright was the first consecration in St. Paul's to an archbishopris since the Reformation. ■ 'J lie archbishop consecrated last in the old Paul's was Simon Jslip, 131!). I'ECOVEI'Y OK JEWELLERY. LONDON, August 2(>. Ma *iniii ynd Webb's jewellery has been recovered by the police. Jt is valued at £-11/H)0. Received 10.3(1 p.m., August -fith. NEW BATTLESHIP. The Dreadnought to be commenced .it Portsmouth after the Neptune is la ii nclvd. will exceed the latter ill length. A HONDURAS LOAN. NEW YORK, August 23. Honduras is seeking to float a loan of £2.H1)!),W0 in New York for the purpose of refunding the foreign debt. AN UNKNOWN I!ACE. Professor Edgar Hewitt has discovered in North-east Arizona, eaves much larger than the celebrated Kentucky caves; also ruins, household articles, and remains oT a race unknown to archaeologists. Received 'J.3O p.m., .August 2Gth. ASIATIC CHOLERA. | ROTTERDAM, August 26. ! There have been five deaths from Asiatic cholera in Rotterdam: 28 persons are isolated and under observation.