BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14276, 17 August 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

I'l-css Aasutiiition-By Telegraph-Copyright ANTI-CONSUM PTION CRUASDE. LONDON, August 15. The National Association for the Prevention of Consumption is appealing for I'olllK) per annum for travelling tuberculosis exhibition caravans to be equipped with lantern slides, lecturers anil an information bureau for tho distribution of literature. THE TURKISH LOAN. It is reported at Paris that the Customs revenues of Turkey are offered as security for the £0.000.000 loan to be raised in Paris in October. The interest will be four per cent, and the loan be offered at 88 .V.

UNITED STATES POLITICS. Mr Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, will shortly retire from the Administration and will now help Mr Cannon's re-election to the Speakership. Mr Aldrieh has been dropped from the inner Republican Councils.

AMERICAN FINANCE, The "Times" in a leader, says that the general consensus of business opinion in the United States is that the excess of optimism since the summer of 190S necessitatis a curb on exorbitant commercial and industrial aspirations of New York. The Associated Banks wish to overcome the difficulty brought about by loans and discounts being below deposits. Financiers are uneasy owing to the increase of railways and foreign indebtedness, and the surprising frivolity of the farmers and citizens of the "Western States, who, intoxicated by high profits, have locked up their resources not only in bricks and mortar, but have got a craze for automobiles

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, The Army wishes the body of Miss Nightingale to be buried in Westminster Abbey, but this is unlikely. Air John Finegan, who was her orderly in the Crimea, died to-day. Received 1f).25 p.m.. Angus IGth. LONDON, August 10. The King telegraphed to Miss Florence Nightingale's relatives his and the Qui en's deep regret, adding:—"We practically owe present organisation of trained nurses to her striking example." French papers pay generous tributes. The "Telegraph" says that Miss Nightingale's will asks for a quiet funeral, but opinion is growing that a public funeral for the herone, equal to that of Jeanne d' Arc is a. national duty. THE TF.RRA NOVA. The Antarctic exploration steamer Terra Nova was delayed by making magnetic observations.

A PEACEFUL REVOLUTION. The Persian Government has decided to place the reorganisation of the army in the hands of foreigners. Seven Frenchmen will join the Ministry of Finance. Four Italians and two Swiss will reorganise the gendarmerie and advise the Provincial Governments. Two Egyptians and Mussulmans will modify the laws on the basis of the Egyptian laws. Received 9.5 p.m.. August 16th. KING EDWARD MEMORIALS. LONDON. August IC. Mr Asquith's letter has given impulse to the movements to commemorate the reign of King Edward. Liverpool is calling for designs for erecting a memorial to cost £25.000, including an equestrian statue. Birmingham rebuilds the children's hospital, and erects a statue. Belfast, Bradford, Norfolk. Shropshire, Warwick, Windsor. Lancaster, Chichester, Hastings and Salford, propose extensions of the hospitals. Aberdeen intends to erect a granite memorial, and Ipswich a sanatorium to cost £20,000, whereof half has been subscribed. HOME DEFENCE TROPHIES. Alichaelhou.se School, Natal, won the Home defence trophy of £SO for permanent naval forces; Aielbourno being second and taking £25: naval militia of Victoria fourth; A company, first battalion of Victorian Rangers, sixth; senior naval cadets seventh—winning £5 apiece. The money prizes were duo to an anonymous donor and will be larger in 1911. GUARDING THE BABY. The "Daily Express' " New York correspondent repoifs that the eight months old baby of Air Edward McLean, a multi-millionaire, is taking airings at Bar Harbour Mains, in a steel cage on wheels, lined with eiderdown, and with complicated locks, in consequence of attempts to kidnap.

THE GERMAN NAVY. It is authoritatvely stated that the 1911 estimates of the German navy include three battleships instead of two mentioned in the Navy Law.