BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14268, 6 August 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

j IPress Aswociation-By Telegraph-Copyright I NEW JUDGES. ! LONDON, August 4. ! Mr Hurace Avory, a well-known. ' King's Counsel, and .Mr Thomas If. ; Berridge, an ex-member of the House j 'of Coir-moiis, have been created High j| Court. Judges. j A BANKER'S ESTATE. ! The estate of the la-to Mr Hugh Collin Smith, a former manager of tbe .. Bank of .England, lias been sworn at .; £360,311. I FARM COLONIES. ! Tbo Bethnal Green Distress Committee bas approved of farm colonies for intending emigrants. i SIR GEORGE REID. ■ ; ! Sir George Reid takes his holidays i; in Scotland. He will then go to the J Brussels Technical Education Coniorj once and subsequently to tbe Paris Unj employment Conference. i GERMANY'S FATE. i j Colonel Gacdke declares that Germany is marching to economic ruin o r j war through refusing to consider the li- j natation of armaments-. She has til'ty-eight ships building, and is deceivI ing public-, opinion bv ignoring the j Navy Bill. : PRESIDENT TAFT'S~ PROGRAMME. : ! The "World" states that President! | Tart's programme for next session in- j j eludes a shipping subsidy, the conser-! | vation of natural resources, the buildinp- ■ j of two battleships annually, the ioiti- \ ncation of the Panama Canal, and the \ estabb'shment.-of a new Government m Alaska j _ SMUGGLING. j Smuggling through tho arsenal has ■ beer, long suspected at Lisbon, and on : Monday night an offici.il was discovert d with carts carrying clothc.s, old china, i and silks smuggled from Southampton' j m the Portuguese warship Vulcan. Ai j court-martial is 'pending and high oftij cials ore implicated. Received 9.?,.-, p . m .. August sth. AMBASSADORIAL. LONDON. August 5. Sir G. W. Buchanan. British Minister : at the, Hague, has been appointed Am-: hassador at St. Petersburg, and Sir R. ; S. Paget. Minister at Munich, his been ! ; appointed to Belgrade. KING'S MEMORIAL. The Lancashire County Council is inviting i:\ti.tm in ,sl,ar<. s in the British Cotton Growing Association as a memorial to King Edward. MISLEADING BOOKS. ! Mr Coghhm has examined fortv books dealing with Australian geography in use in the London County Council schools, and reports that the majority are misleading, and convey a very false impression. He considers it almost use-: less to continue the press campaign to advertise Australia while the schools books are so defective. federalTnote ISSUE. I The "Times' " financial suppplement says that their Sydney correspondent condemns the federal note issue, which is partly ;l whim, partly a desire to luirrow without appearing to borrow. Sine- the banks cannot afford to store notes and gold the issue will have the effect of depleting the gold stock which i enabled Australia to ship £20.000,000 after the 1002 drought. BOMB OUTRAGE, A powerful bomb wrecked the house | of a well known anarchist and'apache detective at Le Vallois. The detective ivas absent holiday-making. The caretaker was severely injured and several passers-by wore stunned. POLITICAL THEFT. The Unionist papers protest that Lord Carrington has stolen Sir Gilbert Parker's agricultural banks scheme. CHINA AND TIBET. The newspapers critciis?, the Tibetan policy of leaving the Chinese to re-es-tablish their dominion, which Russia and Brtain have mutually agreed not to interfere. Colonel Young-husband in an article in tbe "Times,' advises Britain to approach Russia. Tibetan , traders ridicule, the suggestion that the | British agencies are endangered. The j Tibetans' passive resistance, is making it j dffietilt for the Chinese to get rations. j MILITARY SERVICE. j Tho Spanish Cabinet have approved of , a Bib embodying compulsory military j service of ail Spaniards. | _ SPAIN AND THE VATICAN. j The Government have requisitioned ' ; the special trains and steamers which' j were intended to carry SO,<K)Q Catholic demonstrators to San Sebastian on Sunday. The Government will use them for the troops wherewith to repress t.bo demonstration which the Catholics are determined to hold. GREAT FISCAL - QUESTION. j A mass meeting of farmers in Southern Saskatchewan and Wir.neiwg. daimimcrd the manufacturers for growing rich at ih: expense of the producers. If it wore wrung for a Conservative Go- ', vcrnmem to inaugurate protection, ifc' was doubly wrong for a professed fro:v I trade Premier to perpetuate it. Sir! "Wilfrid Laurier, in replying, reiterated ' his devotion to freetradc. Protection i | was a great wrong and made millions j I dishonest, one with another, and in- ■ ! culcated the vicious principle of expecting value where none was given. PURCHASE oFBATTLESHIPS. The Turkish Government are purchasj ing not two, but four German battleships of the Brandenburg class. ALLEGED BRIBERY. Mr Gore giving evidence at the Congressional enqiriry stated that the agents of the of the McMurray syndicate had offered 50,000 dollars if they withdrew the resolution opposing tbe sale of 450,000 acres of coal and asphalt lands belonging to the Choctaw and Chieasaw Indians for which a New York syndicate is paying 30,000.000 doTagents of the MeMurrav svndirece.ive 3.000,000 dollars as bribes. He said vice-President Sherman was interested in tbe McMurray contracts.* Mr Sherman replied that Mr Gore's statement had no foundation,