BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14222, 13 June 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

' iPxess Assodation-By Telegraph-Copyright VICEROY OF INDIA. LONDON, Juno 10. It is officially notified that Sir Charles Hardinge, P. 0., ex-Ambassa-dor at St. Petersburg, has been appointed Viceroy of India. CHOLERA EPIDEMIC. Cholera is spreading in South Aussia. The Russian doctors are insufficient, but the Ekatcrinoslav Municipal Council refuse to permit Jewish practitioners to assist. Kieff and Rostofdondon are infected, and there are many suspected cases at St. Petersburg. EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES. Several robberies occurred at West End jewellers' shops last night. Shops were looted to the extent of £52,000. An English lady was robbed of £3OOO worth of jewellery iu a boarding-house at Paris. THE "CLARION" AND ITS READERS. Mr Blatohl'ord, editor of the I '"Clarion." threatens to discontinue ! the paper because its readers object | to its advocacy of a. strong Army and ! .Navy, and are indifferent to the quesi tions of defence and freetrade. ' | RESEARCH WORK. ! Cambridge University has awarded | Captain Tremcarde, a Victorian, a cerI tificate carrying the Bachelor of Arts j degree . for research into the origin, I language and folk lore of the Hous- ■ >as: also a diploma iu anthropology, : the first ever awarded, for a treatise ■ on the Nigerian head hunters. I EDITOR MURDERED. j Ahmed Samiu Bey, editor of the ! Sodaimillet newspaper has been assassi inated. The murderer escaped. CLAIM FOR. DAMAGES. "La Milo " is suing Mr Wood, : jeweller, for damages for malicious : prosecution. FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE. ! The Earl of Plymouth in entertain- ! ing the pageant of Empire workers at | the Crystal Palace said he hoped tho i festival would form a part of the cor- : onation festivities of 1911. i BRIBERY BY OFFICIALS. j The biii). ry investigation commisj sion lias discovered that many Customs officials at Sevastopol and the ■ Black Sea ports are receiving regular | salaries and commissions from Russian ; foreign firms f<jr the purpose of ela.ssi- ! lying the imports schedule. A heavy ; loss to the exchequer was the result. I TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS. I It is officially announced at Ottawa : that Belgium has been admitted to the ■ intermediate tariff on all products simi- ' lar to French products covered by the ! Franco-Canadian treaty. This does . not include the fixed raies granted to i some French specialities. The Nether- ! lands, will receive the same treatment '■ as Belgium. The arrangement with Iti aly gives Canada the benefit of the tariff j on eighteen items, including timber, I lumber, furniture, carriage woods, wood I pulp, paper, boots, shoes, tools, imple- , ments, sewing machines, and Itaily receives the benefit of the intermediate ! tariff on eighteen items, including can~ | ned vegetables, lime iunice, fruit syrup, wines, velvets, ribbons. j A DISCLAIMER. | Chapman and Hall, the publishers, \ declare that the pamphlet "The Truth : about the Navy" was not written by or ', at the instance of Sir John Fisher or ; anj-one connected with the Admiralty. I OBITUARY. ' The death is reported of Violet ! Brook Hunt, organising secretary of j the Woman's Unionist and Tariff Re- | form Association. 1 ! WARDANI TO BE EXECUTED. j Tho Court of Cassation at Cairo dis j missed Wardaui's appeal. His execuj tion takes place in a fortnight.

WINS AT THE OLVMPIA. A. G. Yanderbilt- won the Bisley Park-Olympia coaching Marathon and Belgian officers won King Edward's trophy for jumping. MR ROOSEVELT. Mr Roosevelt has sailed from Southampton. Immense preparations are ■"lerntr mad" for his reception in New York. Mr Roosevelt-Tins requested pre-de-nt Taft not to lower the dignity of his high office by meeting him. MEXICO AND THE STATES. Received 5 p.m., June 12th. LONDON, June 11. Mexico has agreed with the United States' terms of arbitration of the Elchamizal zone controversy. THE TOTALISATOR. TO STAY. The judicial committee of the Russian Duma reported against the proposal to abolish totalisators, the Government percentage- from which amounts to £45,000 annually which is devoted to the breeding of thoroughbreds. CRETE AGATN WARNED. The Powers by a fresh note warned the Cretans that unless the -Moslem deputies are immediately allowed to sit- without taking the. oath contrary to their conscience, the protecting Powers will consider measures to deal with the situation. CANADA AND AMERICA. The Canadian Minister of Finance states that negotiations with the United States will begin in the autumn when Ministers reassemble. The spirit which President Taft and Mr Knox have manifested affords grounds for hoping that bitter trade relations are possible, but whether or not the movement succeeded Canada, felt bound to respond to the United States friendly approaches. ROYAL TOLERANCE. At Madrid a Royal decree authorises non-Catholic church missions, to show external signs of their belief on the walls of their church. CLOAKWOR-KERS ON STRIKE. Received 12.20 a.m., June 13th". NEW YORK, Juno 12. Twenty thousand cloak-workers are out on strika.