BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14223, 14 June 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright COMMANDER PEARY. LONDON, -June 12. Commander Peary has sailed for | New York. POLITICIANS AT GOLF. Mr Balfour won the Parliamentary Golf Handicap. There were 107 entrants. AN ATTEMPTED MURDER. The Court at Silesia sentenced a man named Goldstein, an ex-detective of the Cairo police, to eight years' imprisonment for attempting to kill Harvey Pasha., commandant of the Cairo police. RAILWAY FREIGHTS. The New York Produce Exchange complains that the New York Central and sixteen other railways, by the high, grain rates from Buffalo to New York, are diverting business to Montreal. Received 10 p.m., -Tune 13th. ROYALTY AND SOCIETY. LONDON. .Tune IS. It is expected thnt the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught will make Ottawa and Montreal leading social centres, and that many leading -Americans will spend the winter in Canada. CANADIAN MAIL SERVICES. The Postmaster-General announces that there will be three mail services shortly between Canada and Britain. The Government's aim is that none shall go via New York.

THE WHITEHAVEN DISASTER.. Wearing breathing helmets of steel, tho manager of the Wellington pit at W hu-ehaven with three assistants penetrated the mine to search for the 133 dead. A fallen roof stopped progress forty yards from the origin of the fire, and the clearance of the debris was begun. ACCUSATION AGAINST BRITAIN. Tho German and Austrian papers accuse Great Britain of championing Ciete with the object of acquiring Suda Bay. The Berlin "Post" vehementlv demands that Europe should prevent England turning Arabia into a British satrapy. The " Nucste Nachriehten" invites Turkey to invade Thessaly in order to solve the problem. The Turkish papers are giving credence to the accusation. RAISULI AS GOVERNOR. The "Times" Tangier correspondent reports that Ra.isuli has been appointed Governor of the Alcazar district. Received 11.10 p.m., June 13th. BENEFITING WORKKRS. The exhibition branch of the Board of Trade is encouraging Chambers of Commerce and business firms to arrange for visits of parries of working men to the Brussels exhibition at a cost from 37s 6d per head. lire thousand one hundred of Lever Brothers' employees are going on Friday. LINKED BY ELECTRICITY. The municipal system organised by the Ontario Government for the distri- I bution of electric energy generated at i Niagara Falls delivers power to To-j ronto in October, and to London and I St. Thomas, a hundred miles west of = the falls at the end of 1910. It is expected that this will enable the province to be linked up with the New York electric tramwavs.

CHILIAN NAVY. The Chilian Chamber of Deputies has authorised a loan of £4.000.000 for the navy, whereof £1.000,000 will be devoted to coastal defence, and £400,000 voted annually will be accumulated for future naval construction.