BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 14003, 11 September 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

ITtcss Ase*»ciation-By Telegraph-Copyright ILLEGAL COMBINATION. LONDON, Sept." 10. The " Daily Chronicle " reports that the State of Arkansas is suing 05 companies included in the so-called Insuranco Trust, ji 1 legist g illegal combination. The Statu asks the Court to fine the insurance companies 13,000,0(Xkl«ls-., and ahip expel them from Arkansas. • ; .' iV .VISCOUNT KITCHENER. Viscount Kitchener i.s receiving a remarkable scries of farewells. During liis 'johruey whole garrisons turned out at various stations to cheer liini. AIJTESIAN WEIJLS IN LONDON. Owing to tin; AV.itor Hoards cx»rbitant charges, ISO artesian wells have been sunk in London, especially for business firms. . , OBITUARY. Received 9.30 p.m., Sept. 10th. NEW YORK, Sept. 10. Mr E. H. Harriman, the railway magnate, is dead, having suffered, a relapse due to acute indigestion. There was heavy selling on the New York Stock Exchange in anticipation of his death, but the actual news was received too late to further affect stocks. ATMOSPHERE ON MARS. Professor Percival Powell, of lloston, has observed oxygen iu the atmosphere 011 Mars. , . - EX-SHAH OF PERSIATEHERAN, 10. The ex-Shah lias left Persia. UNITING THE GERMAN PEOPLE. UERLIX. Sent. I<VThe Kaiser, speaking at Stuttgart,' said that heaven-'had allowed Count Zeppelin to perform a. splendid work for the Fatherland uniting the people in a great aild patriotic idea.