BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14360, 4 February 1911, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN

Press Association—By Tel—Copyright. NEW ZEALAND AT THE CORONATION. LONDON, Feb. 2. Sir W. Hall-Jones announces that New Zealand is prepared to contribute £IOOO for a triumphal arch at tho Coronation. The "Evening Standard" advocates similar arches from Australia and other Dominions, showing their products and resources. MISSIONARIES' RIGHTS. Alleging that he was being silenced and summarily banished, Dr Peter Fraser, a popular Methodist medical missionary at Khasi, hi Assam, e'eclined to sign an agreement to consult Major Colo, the civil agent in Eastern Bengal and Assam, and abide by nis decision relating to country districts which ho proposed to visit. This ltd to a petition to the King. The question will also be raised in Parliament. TURKS UNDER ARMS. The special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" learns from Salonika that 600,000 reserves, in addition to the standing army of 400,000, .ne being summoned. The alleged reason is to provent complications in the spring. CANADA AND THE STATES. The "Daily Express" remarks *liat Canada is not the only granary in tiio world, and enlarges on the prospects of Australia automatically succeeding to Canada's position if it should be vacated. The Ottawa correspondent of tho "Times" says that tho feeling of rne Conservatives is all against the reciprocal agreement. Hostile opinion in the country gains steadily. THE RAILWAY DEAL. The railway absorption gives the Tilbury. ordinary stockholders a perpetual 6 per centum interest. A feature in the Stock Exchange is the rise of Tilbury ordinary stock from 129 to 147. The general opinion is that unless the Great Eastern has received very valuable consideration the absorption will he strongly opposed in Parliament! ARAB ATROCITY. The "Mail's" Constantinople correspondent states that rebels at Yemen massacred two tribes which, were friendly to the Turks. AH the men were killed, and the children's legs were severed. THE MEXICAN REVOLT. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Seventy-five revolutionists and twelve Federals were killed in a battle San Lorenzo, Chihuahua. The fains captured by' the Mexican rebels have been released. The passengers were not molested. American citizens are leaving Juarez. Mines are believed to have been planted under the Governinani buildings by the rebels.