BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14425, 22 April 1911, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. LONDONDERRY REBUKES DUBLIN. LONDON, April 20. The Corporation of Londonderry, composed of Unionists and Nationalists, has decided to send a deputation to Dublin to present the King with an Address of Welcome. Received 10.45 p.m., April 21st. AUSTRALIA'S NAVY. ' LONDON, April 21. Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, inte'r-j viewed, said there was no reason why Australia's navy should not be made to fit into the scheme of Imperial defence. The Dreadnought oruisers and protected cruisers would be a considerable addition to Britain's strength. Other classes were of small importance. It was an ambitious scheme to give the Australian taxpayer an opportunity of realising the financial burden. "HARLAND AND WOLFF." ' Mr G. Wolff, replying on being presented with the freedom of the City of Belfast, recalled the time when lie was twenty-three years of age, and he and Mr Harland proposed to start a yard in Liverpool harbour. The authorities replied that they were too young to start such an underaking. Accordingly they moved to Belfast, where now tihey were employing 14,000 men. ' "" r * " -

Received 11.30 p.m., April 21st'. WIRELESS TELEPHONE. Tlie "railophone" for wireless telephoning from a moving train, has been inaugurated. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. Mr William Wolland, draper of Knightsbridge, bequeathed £20,000 to charities, including £IO,OOO to the Baptist fund, and £IOOO to Spurgeon's College. MOORS ON FIRE Large areas of peat moors in Yorkshire are afire it is supposed from a spark from nn engine. Strenuous efforts are being made to save farmsteads. The damage done already runs into thousands. GLORIOUS ELECTION. In connection with the East Cork election petition a large body of police was drafted to the city for duty about the Court.- Mr Tim Healey, for" the petitioners, said the election was won by means of eleven bands, ten torchlights, six hundred free railway tickets, two thousand free drinks, and two hundred and eighty-four meals. CORONATION GUNS. The Colonial Office is arranging for a simultaneous' salute of- guns throughout the Empire, at the moment of the Coronation, and rockets or bombs if in tjhe night time. THE RETORT COURTEOUS. OTTAWA, April 20. A meeting addressed by the Hon. Mr Oliver was uproarious. He was accused of plotting the fall of the Rutherford Ministry in Alberta. Mr Oliver promptly called his accuser a liar. BRITAIN AND ITALY. ROME. April 20. King Emanuel welcomed Prince Arthur of Connaught, the bearer of King George's congratulations on Italy's jubilee. There was a f r antc pro-Bri-t.sh demonstration of 25,000 persons outside the Quirinal. A FACTORyIn SOUDAN.

KHARTOUM, April 20. A factory for the preparation of "sud fuel" has heen opened. It is regarded as an immense step in the economic development of the Soudan. (Slid is a water weed which forms vast and dense masses in the Nile. It i s pro. posed to compress it into bricks, when it wid resemble peat.)