BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14044, 30 October 1909, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Asoociation-Isy Telegraph-Copyright

SUFFRAGETTE HOSED

LONDON, Oct. if.

H is stated that a suffragcttt barricaded her cell with the plank bed. The warders inserted a hoso through the window and drenched her for an hour and finally forced the door. A NEW STEAMER. The steamer Mincrio for :lio S:m Francisco-Australasian mail service, has been launched at Glasgow.

KEIII HARDIE'S POCKET PICKED

LONDON, Oct. 2S

While Mr Keir Hardie was entering n tram car in Bcrmondsey, a pick-poc-ket stole the watch presented him by the independent Labour Party. BUREAU FOR JULIA.

Mr AV. T. Stead lias oncned a bureau for tho spook Julia, to enable people to communicate with tho departed. Mr Stead reports remarkable conversation, including talks with Gladstone, AV. H. Smith and Disraeli, on present political situations. Disraeli was very cryptic-, but added: "Publish it if you like; people will think you are a fool-"

Received 9.10 p.m., Oct. 29th

TENDERS FOB. AVAR SUPPLIES

LONDON, Oct. 29

The AYar Offict; is inviting lenders in Australia; to he in by January 6th, for one year's supply of forage and meat for the. troops in South Africa, commencing in April. CHANGES OX MARS.

The Astronomical Society reports that recent observations of Mars show that a gloomy yellow veil enshrouds immense, tracts, obliterating the canal markings of last August. The southern polar cap was observed to bo fractured. Scientific circles are much interested in the observation.

lleceived 10.1.0 p.m., Oct. '.'nth

CONGO REFORMS. LONDON, Oct. 21). ' Tho Belgian Colonial Minister has outlined the Congo reforms. Between 1910 and July of 1012, freedom of trade will ho established in the produce of the soil throughout the districts hitherto claimed as State property. The Government will consider the advisability of rebuying the concessions from the companies, and in future tho taxes levied in money on enforced porterage will be suppressed. Ho declared that the charges of cruelty against the Belgian administration were false.

POLITICS AND DRESS

COPENHAGEN,. Oct. '2B.

Forty-four out.of .1 H members of Ibr I'Yilkething support M. Zablc's Cabinet. M. /able is a Radical and declines to wear Court dress or use the title Excellency. M. /aide's wife is a -shorthand writer in the Folkelhing.

WHOLESALE DISEASE

NEW YORK, Oct. 20

}|r Rockefeller has given 1,000,000 dollars for a commission of doctors to investigate the bookworm disease which is prevalent in the rural districts of the southern States. Jt »* similar to the sleeping sickness. The commission states that 2,000,000 persons of all classes are infected.