BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14142, 28 February 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Pmw Aancution-By Telegraph-Copyright NELSON RELIC. LONDON, Feb. 25. The British- Museum has secured the original of the Trafalgar memorandum in Nelson's handwriting, containing instructions to captains before the battle. THE CHARLESWORTH FRAUDS. Mr Justice Darling has reduced the sentences on the Charlesworths to three years. A RESIGNATION. Canon Thompson, of Norwich, has resigned owing to ill-health. THE CONGO. The Belgian Minister for the Colonies declared that Belgium will not tolerate any foreign .intervention in Congo affair. He refused to enter into a discussion with the Congo Reform Association. "' Received 5 p.m., Feb. 27th. HANDSOME BEQUESTS. ™ \t • LONDON, Feb. 26. Mrs Morrison, sister-in-law of the late Mr Charles Morrison, the London financier, has bequeathed £25,000 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; £SOOO to the Church Association, £SOOO to Kensit's Protestant Truth Association, and £SOOO each to the , Anti-Vivisection Society and the Hospital. THE NEW STEAMER SERVICE. Reuter's Montreal correspondent reports that the Canadian Pacific Company's headquarters state that the New Zealand Steamship Company, which has been awarded the subsidy for the Montreal-Australian service, really is the Canadian, Pacific Railway. Three steamers .. will be put on the route. The first sails on 15th May. MEJDICAL RESEARCH. The Trustees appointed to control the memorial fellowship for medical research established by the late Mr Alfred Beit have elected ten candidates, including Dr G. <M. Mathieson, who will conduct research in connection witlr respiration. ' Each appointment carries £250 a year for three years. Applications' for the second election must be received by the Trustees before November loth. DEVELOPMENT COMPANY. The shares in the British-New Guinea Development .Company have been allotted; "'' ' '■'. ! ILLEGAL COMBINE. ; NEW YORK, Feb. 25. Eight directors of the Consolidated Milk Exchange have been indicted at New York for participating in a combination to restrain trade. AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS. President Taft, sneaking at New York, said he. f avouro-i buiHing annually two battleships ot \.j 000 tons until the completion of the Panama Canal in 1915. SNAPSHOTTING SOCIALISTS. BERLIN, Feb. 25. The Prussian police are carrying cameras and snapshotting Socialist processions. The photographs constitute evidence against the disturbers. THE KAISER AS CRITIC. The Kaiser was five hours at a private rehearsal of a revival of Meyerbeer's "Le Propheto," offering only suggestions. i THE GERMAN NAVY. The Budget Committee of the ReichV stag passed the Admiralty estimate of £4,250,000 for new armaments. TARIFF REVISION.

The Nuremburg manufacturers have informed Toronto importers that it is necessary to raise prices 10 per cent, compared with those charged before the removal o* the surtax. A Nuremburg firm explains that they lose the 10 per cent, which the German. Government has been paying on exports to Canada. The London " Times'" correspondent at Toronto states that it seems certain that in various cases the price Of German goods will be increased. IMMIGRANTS FOR CANADA. OTTAWA, Feb. 25., 1 The Minister of Agriculture for the province of Ontario, announces that the Government offers a bonus of five dollars for each domestic servant brought to Ontario by the Salvation Army or other trustworthy agency. The Government is considering the payment of the whole or part of their passage-money. It, has also arranged to advance twenty dollars' towards the passage of approved farm labourers, 'the money to be repaid through the immigrants' wages. Steps are being taken to domestic and farm labourers from and Sweden. FRENCH' CORPORAL'S CRIME. „ \; A PARIS, Feb. SB. The French''corporal who put poison in.the mess soup..haa been sentenced to twenty years'- imprisonment for attempting to poison. hussars. ' ' ' INDIAN' STATISTICS. "The Indianpßwlgetf,:shows that the revenue year was v475,264 ? 60(jy ;? v Snd;i the- expenditure J £^OTBj7(^| ; thai the bpipm .will