BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15399, 16 July 1914, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN

♦ LATEST IN WIRELESS. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Service, Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 5.35 p.m., July 15th. LONDON, July 14. A suburban traveller for a tobacco company has a wireless equipment on a motor van -which he uses to communicate with his head office, to supply urgent orders. NELSON LETTERS. Two hundred and forty-two autograph lettars, written by Lord Nelson to his wife, from' before their marriage to the date of the separation, have been sold for £2200. ADVENTUROUS~BOATMAN. • Oldham Holborrow, a cripplej has started from Bridport, to cross the Atlantic in a small sailing boat of his own construction. He has taken forty gallons of water and half a hundredweight of biscuits and otter provisions. A TOREADOR'S INCOME. MADRID, July 14. Regallo. a famous toreador, is under contract to take part in 105 performances this season for £21,000. EMPRESS DISASTER. CAPTAIN KENDALL SHAKEN. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. OTTAWA, July 14. Tile Canadian Pacific Company announces that Captain Kendall, of the Empress of Ireland, will receive* promotion and bo given a, shore appointment, owing to the late severe strain affecting his health. GREAT HEAT IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, July 14. The greatest continuous heat for half a century is being experienced. Monster forest fires are raging in every direction. The effect of the drought on the crops is causing anxiety. A dynamite factory near Lake Ladoga was for twenty—four hours threatened with destruction by a great peat fire. Troops-endeavoured to stifle the flames with liquid mud. The wind changed and the factory was saved.