BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14858, 30 September 1912, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN

i WEALTHY EXci.ISHMEX. ; INCUMES OVER Oi/;;K}. J Pivsa Ar-sociatiuii—Bv Tel.—Copyright I LONDON, Sept. 27. The Inland I'cvenuo report states that there aro lid incomes of over £30,IKP annually. In.otno tax is payable on £I.U-10,i>M0,00.), of wliieh C100.0U0,I>:>:> U bive.-.ted abroad. Mr Jdoyd C.-orge's increment value duty icalisud £'o'!.9'i f L:r the ywir. and the undeveloped land duty £10,213. : EXPAXSIOX. OTTAWA, Sept. 27. Lord Stanhope, interviewed at Torento, said that l'.r.thh Colmaba oucht to guard against a JapaueE? invasion of tho Pacific G.'.ast, as the Japanese wero now looking for new colonics and must ! sccuro them in the Pacific. ! STRO.uBOLI IX ERUPTION. '■ Sept. 28. I Stromboli is in violent eruption. Six craters r.re in flair.o and others art 1 showering boiling water over tho is- , land, which is buried with dust two to ; .six feet deep. There is gr. at distress t owinir to the destruction of the vineI y.-u-ds. | CAPT. AMUNDSEN DISAPPOINTED. I CHRISTIANA, V'pt. 23. j .After conf.rriiii; with Dr Nansen and ; the Covemment Cnr.taia AimtntLsen has p F.tp-nncd liis expedition in the Fran, ito the North Pole for a year. The . oceanograplier is unable to join the exj peditlon at present, imd it is ijr.pcissible to replace him. ! LATEST IN WIUELESS. ! PAXIIS, S-„t. 23. | jr. Bethcncd, a French engineer, lias patented a wireles. apparati:.s, ena.bl- ; ins Hm to telegraph without intcrferi en<:e, at greater sped titan cables, and iat a tenth of the cost. The inventor j substitutes sparkkss for spark tele- ! graphy, and claims that t : e ia also ; solving tho problem of wirebss telo- ■ phony.