BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13995, 2 September 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Cress AsfocMtJOir-rßy Tel«graph-Copj righv RAILWAY REFORM. LONDON, August 31. Mr Churchill, president of the Board of Trade, 111 reply to a deputation that suggested that, steps should ' lie taken to coni|K-l . the' 'railways to issue monthly thinl class season tickets, :tated that lie contemplated reform dealing witli railway, traveling in a much larger and bolder manner. *.

NEW ATLANTIC PASSAGE. The Maurctaiua's passage to New York via Fishguard, took five days'3l minutes. BRITISH ASSOCIATION. The British Association ■ has decided to hold its next;meeting at Sheffield. : Received <10:30 • p.nii, - Sept. - llth. VALUABLE INVENTION. • *-■ LONDON,>Scpt."I. The AVar.- Office- is .experimenting'at an, invention by retired Italian naval officers,. Bellini and Tosi, to determine, the -direction whence an ctliergram' id received. . 3t tis stated that tho invention will lie invaluable in life-saving, during ;foe at sea, and that the marine authorities have begun to build a station for the installation of the system at Boulogne,. .

Received,- ip.lotp.ni4, .'Sept., Ist. - BURGLARS COMMITTED. Tim" men lionccrned :in -Mappin a|id We'ib's' burglary / were committed for trial. - r j - • J ' GOVERN on OF QUEENSLAND. Sir W; MacGregi>r is progressing, but it wi)l Iks some montli? bcjorc lie is able to isailffor Queensland., » Kj* ; . '>v' V 1 ' GERMAN DREADNOUGHT. > >, ■ " HERLI N; August 31. •The -Wcstfaleii, Germany's . first Dreadnought,jlias.-'Jjeenifcoi'uplcted, and is now'lyiiig in"- thc-AYcwr. mlCtarv service: MADRID, August 31; King Alfonso has signed : decree making (w.flfW- liable for military W*r«iee this yca'r. .. The numl>er is alm<wt double -the <|t|ota pJC- t t hc. i>rccQdiiig yeaT- | CHOLERA IN HOLLAND. ' | AMSTERDAM,' August 31. 1 Cholera is spreading'in Rotterdam. , Many cases are attributable to the use i >f uiipurificd,-river water;. ..,■>■ •/ A TRAITOR.' PARIS, August 31. > A corporal has disappeared frhm the barracks at Chalrtos, with the plans of a machine' gun of ; the -■latest- pattern. The affair i&[ grave, as the gun's construction is a secret. ■ -The authorities tvill make a great effort to capture the cor|ioral bcfore lie is able to commujnicatc the secret to' a foreign Power.

RAILROAD STOCKS;

NEW YORK, August 31

There has /been much gambling ill New York for several days on rumours concerning Mr' K. H. Hariniau's illness. Railway- stocks."arc, now. .buoyant on Mr."Harrison issuing a statement that 'the surgeon's elimination disclosed nothing seriously wrong with him, and that lio'oul.V :requires,' rest.

~ lleeeived- 10.3u p.m.; Sept.' Ist

SEVERE EARTHQUAKE

ROME, Sejit. 1

A severe eartluiuakc lasting .100 seconds is' reported from I«v)nii-. I'ir- ' turos hi houses..-111 • the li|>|R*r pin ts of the, city were thrown to the floors, and .there was nuiclY alarm. ' "■