BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14238, 2 July 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

iPwss Assocdation-By Telejzraph-CoßYrieht NEWFOUNDLAND'S SURPLUS? LONDON, June 30. Newfoundland's surplus for the year ending to-day i& £84,000. There is an increase in rovi&im© from Crown lujlhls of £40,000. A RECORD DREADNOUGHT. Armstrong's firm is building a Dreadnought of 32,000 tons for Chile at a Cost of £3,000,000. It will be the first of this size. afloat. SAFE' ARRIVAL. The steamer Quilpue, which was believed to have been lost in a gale off the coast of South-west Anrorioa, haa arrived at Talcazhuano. WIRELESS TELEGRAPH. The Colonial Office is studying Mr Marconi's scheme, of wireless communication for the whole Empire. SENTENCES ON RIOTERS. Judge Grantham, at the Durham Assizes. sentenced Fallon to five vea-rs' and eight others from three to eighteen ninths' penal servitude for rioting during the miners' strike .at Horden, when a club-house, worth £IO.OOO, was burned. DIPLOMA OF HONOUR. Mr John H. Beamish, of Auckland, has been awarded a diploma of honour for prismatic roofing shown at the New Zealand Court of the Anglo-Ja-panese Exhibition. TO . WIND UP. Owing to tho effect of the xicava»Hi whisky duty Kinahan and Co., Dublin, have decided to wind up. UNITED STATES POLITICS. Mr Roosevelt lias written earnestly supporting Governor Hughes' Direct Primary Bill.

LAUNCH OF A BATTLESHIP. I'be German battleship Oldenburg has been launched at Danzig.

CHEERS FOR SIR G. H REID. At the close of the National Service League banquet there was an unusual feature. Lord Roberts called for three cheers for the High Commissioner of Australia, which were .warmly given by the audience of 500. ~~

PREMIUMS FOR LARGE FAMILIES One of the largest municipalities in Berlin, in order to check the two-child standard, offers to municipal workmen with three children aji extra 5s monthly; to those with four children, 12s 6d; to those with five children, lGs, witlP six children, 17s 6d; above six. £l. The payments will be made while the children are under sixteen years of age.

Received 10.30 p.m., July Ist. PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS. LONDON, July 1. Addressing the Union Jack Tntijs tries League, Sir George Peid urged it to bo the duty of tho British peop i-t-o purchase Australian products rather than foreign. He warmly approved of the proposal t-o hold an Imperial exhibition in London for products of fchv whole Empire.

PORT ARTHUR. Port Arthur has been opened to foreign shipping.