BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14362, 7 February 1911, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN

Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. OTL ENGINES FOR SHIPS. LONDON, Feb. 5. A 5000-ton ship is being constructed at Glasgow on foroign account. r Mie vessel, which will do 12 knots an hour, fitted with Diesel oil-engines, and will uso oil, 100 tons of which will propel her tho same distance as 300 tons of coal. Received 12.15 a.m., Feb. 7th. THE ANTARCTIC. LONDON, Fob. C. Professor David, of Sydney, lectured at Oxford University on the Antarctic. He dwelt on Sir E. Shackleton's heroism in sledging 99 miles in threo days, and the rescuing of Marshall. .Oxford confers the Doctorship of Science on Professor David. ; A FRIENDLY VISIT. Tho King at Buckingham Palace received an Anglo-German deputation including Adolph- Harnaek, which presented a souvenir of the visits of English Churchmen to Germany, and of German pastors to England in 1909. The King in his speech expressed the hope that tho beneficent efforts of Britain and Germany to promote a friendly understanding between the nations would be productive of good fruit. FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE. A series of carnivals is being arranged in connection with tho Festival of Empire. The City of London has votod £2OO for a symbolical ear, and other cities are contributing cars. It is proposed that thero shall he a car for each of the overseas Dominions. LORD GLADSTONE'S ERROR. CAPETOWN, Feb. 6. Tho epidemic of native outrages on whito women continues the criticism on Lord Gladstone's attitude. THE MEXICAN REVOLT. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6. The insurrectionists by digging a ditch across the line wrecked a train containing Federal troops ten miles south of Jaurez. Many soldiers were killed and wounded. Stiff fighting followed, hut tho Federalists succeeded in escaping the trap. Their rear was fired on as they withdrew. The biggest battle sinco the revolution started is imminent. PLAGUE HORRORS. PEKIN, Feb. 6." Two thousand bodies of victims of the plague have been burnt at Fuchiamien, and 4000 others await cremation. Bodies at Hulan are piled in great heaps on the ice in the river, awaiting thaws in the spring. English and other volunteer doctors nro making heroic efforts to oopo with the plague. They are working 16 hours daily, installing isolation hospitals and disiirfecting plague areas. One volunteer doctor is dead, and another is stricken. The Chinese Government has promised £IOOO to tho family of any doctor who dies fighting the plague. British employees of the imperial Chinese railways are pluckily r-unning trains with supplies to infected: districts. THE RUSSIAN NAVY. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6. The Budget Committee of the Duma voted £2,800,000 as a year's instalment on four battleships. Hitherto tho Duma refused the vote, pending reorganisation of the navy. A SOCIALIST'S FUNERAL. BERLIN, Feb. ('■. Thero was an. impressive demonstration at the late Horr Singer's funeral. A profession of 00.000, marching five and six abrcsat, started from the "fioe of the newspaper " Vorwaerts" at noon, and the final contingent reached the Fredreichsfeldt, cemetery at nightfall. Marshals kept pemot order throughout.

Keep a bottle of Stearns' Wine of Cod Liver Extract at hand—refreshing and invigorating—revives your lost energy after a strenuous day of important meetings. Prompt and effective... Next Tuesday evening a special train at excursion fares is to he run from Fairlie to Timaru and back, in connection with the United Mission. It is to leave Fairlie at 5 p.m., and arrive at 6.50; and returning at 9.30, reaching Fairlie at 11.25.

When your father was a boy, a good rifle cost a heap of money. To-day you can buy a better rifle than your father ever saw for one-tenth of what he would have to pay for any sort of rifle. You see they are made by the million now, and the manufacturing cost has dropped accordingly. It'a a, rule with all machine-made products—the bigger the output, the lower the cost. Take the case of motor cars. When they can be made in big enough quantities the methods of the rifle factory can bo applied; and the cost and selling price fall with every increase in the output. The E.M.F. Co., of Detroit, turns out oyer 60,000 cars a year—good, solidly-built cars on English lines —no planetary gears about them, thank you! The cars turned out are the E.M.F. 30 h.p. five-seater, and tlie Flanders 20 h.p. two-seater. They have been before the public three years, their has not been altered and the demand for them is this voar than it ever was before. The E.M.F. 30 h.p., with windshie'd. Cap? hood, and five lamps, sells n.) £375: the Flanders, with the same extras, £275...