BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14354, 28 January 1911, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN

_ ♦— Press Association—By Tel— Copyright. "ALL BRITISH" SHOPPING. LONDON, Jim. 2l>. .Presiding at a. crowded meeting of manufacturers in connection with the proposed "All British shopping week," Lord Desborough commended the Australian definition of British goods as 23 per cent, of British workmanship. DEATH OF SiR. CHARLES DILKE. TJio death is announced of Sir Charles Dilke, who returned from Hyeres on Saturday, and had Binne Wen confined to his bed. (The 'Kt. Hon. Sir Charles Wontworth Dilke, Bart., was at one time a conspicuous figure in public affairs, being i'nder-Secretary of State for Foreign, Affairs JBBO-S2; President of the Local Government Board, 1882-85; and lator, chairman of several important Roval Commissions, and he .vas chairman of the Special Committeo on Income Tax in 1006. He was born in ]SI3, and was educated for the law. He married twice, his second wife being the widow of the famous .Mark Pattison, .Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford; Sir Charles Dilke was the author of several books, some of tnein dealin" with the overseas Dominions. The title of one of them, " Greater liiitain,"-published in IS6B, became a fnmfliar term for the outer dominions.] - Received 10 p.m., Jan. 27th. MELBA. ■Madame Mslba has returned to London, recovered from her illness. .- OBITUARY. Doctor John Brown, patron and principal of the Congregational Institute, Nottingham. ACTRESS MARRIES WELL. Miss Zena Dare, the actress, married Maurice Brett, Lord Esher's second son, at the Paddington Registry Office on Monday. It was intended to keep the marriage secret until Miss Dare's engagements are concluded, when she leaves the stage. DEPRECIATION OF CONSOLS. It is stated that 164,000 savings bank depositors hold twenty-three million's worth of Consols. At many hank meetings in London a feature of the discussions was" the deterioration of Consols. Some speakers favoured popularising this security. Lord St. Aldwyn, presiding at the Joint Stock Bank meeting, favoured £5 bonds, issuable through the post office. WORKERS' PENSIONS IN FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 27.

A debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Workmen's Pensions Bill, showed that twelve millions would benefit. The contributions will be obligatory, on both men and women earning below £l2O a year, but pensions supplemented by a State grant could be secured by those earning up to £2OO by means of voluntary deposits. PLAGUE IN CHINA. :!■•'■ PEKIN, Jan. 26. The Legation doctors consider the plague the most contagious • and virulent in the world's history. There were scarcely any recoveries, and yersin serum had no effect. The plague is spreading rapidly towards Hankau. Twenty-six bodies were found on the railway south of Tientsin. There is an exodus of forreign women and children from Pekin. The epidemic was propagated by Chinese hunters who shipped furs to TanA hundred foreign experts are urgently needed. AN OLD STORY. NEW YORK, Jan. 26. Alfred W. DowsWorth, business manager of the New York "Journal of Commerce," in giving evidence before the House of Representatives Ship Subsidy Committee, told of an attempt which was made to buy editorial support in favour of the American Government's purchase of the Panama Canal property from the De Lesseps Company. . CHINESE- IN CANADA. . OTTAWA, Jan. 26. During the sitting of the Commission of Investigation into Chinese immigration, Mr Joseph Martin, a member of the British House of Commons, charged the Liberal party throughout British Columbia with wholesale cor 4 ruption. He alleged that Sir Wilfrid Laurier was primarily blameworthy for the graft which permeated every department of the Federal Government. Conflicting evidence was given as to whether Mr Tcmpleman, ' Canadian Minister for Inland Revenue, stated confidentially that he desired that the Royal Commission on Immigration he stopped. Mr Templeman will be summoned to give evidence on tho point.