BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14324, 14 October 1910, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

BILLIARDS. Press Aasociat-ion-By Teiearapli-Copyright LONDON, Oct. 12. The " Standard " twits Stevenson with damning Gray with faint- praise, and says the whole truth is that Gray had wiped the eye of English experts by his steady perseverance and physical stamina of the most rare bind. THE RIGHT PROTECTION. Speaking at' St. Louis on the subject of tariffs, Mr Roosevelt said that what was needed was that protection which had hitherto made American workers the best off in the world.

TENNIS. "Wilding beat Ritchie in the third round of the covered courts championship, G-l, 6-1, 6-1. DETERMINED MAGISTRATE. Received 9.50 p.m.. Oct. 13th. LONDON, Oct. 13.

An Ottawa magistrate boarded the trawler Chieftain and endeavoured to seize her, contended that she was fishing within' tlie three-mile limit. The captain maintained that he was Similes off shore, and offered to summon a gunboat to decide the position. The magistrate would not yield, and declining to return the trawler brought him to Hull.

A SOUTH AFRICAN ffIXT. CAPETOWN. Oct, 13. Mr F. R. Moore has resigned from the Ministry of Commerce, and accepts a seat in the Union Senate.

A branch Royal mint is projected at ictoria, to mint coinage for the whole Union except the Protectorates. An Act to establish it is being modelled 011 the Canadian Act of 1901.