MISCELLANEOUS

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15444, 5 September 1914, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS

SF.EKIXC: ITALY'S HELP. I'OMF.. Sept.. :v Time An>;r'a:i Reiihsrath members rami- in Italy to loiii'iii So-ialUt ro-SeiltllU-111. •fill' in ,-s on !i:i> been i'xpeil. d from Italy. (:■ rnian Reichstag members have nr. rived i.'ii ;i s.nular ni'^s'Oii. AM F.RICAX XEUTRA LITY. WASH IXOTOX. Sept. 0. Sir Sprint; l?ir«>, ; 110- British AmI'assatlor. discussed wtli tlic President ih>> (piestion eii American neutrality. While no; dispmiiijj; the n;:hi of the fiiTed States to pu<cha-p ships from belligerents. Sir < X(>ie.ssed iln-" opinion thai iii-ii:ii?; unuid <onsiiii'i* sn h avi oil iv ih o'ave '.l ji leisure.

GERMAN LIES. INJURE BRITISH IN GERMANY. LONDON, Sept. 3. Sir J. Sievwright-, Who was detained at Hamburg, has reached England. He states that the hardships of the Brit'shers in Germany is largely the result of Press stories of ill-treatment of Germans in England. . TRADE AND COMMERCE. The. wheat market is firm with little inquiry; 46s is asked for South Australian afloat. Merchants are calling attention to supplies of wheat filtering into Germany through Rotterdam and elsewhere in Holland from England. The Board of Trade scheme against German-Austr-o-Httngarian trade in neutral markets is rapidly progressing. American firms are preparing to send an army of commercial travellers to South America to capture German trade. ' Many amateur Rugby ' Association Clubs in England have canceled their fixturesThe Swedish steamer St. Paul struck it mine in the North Sea and foundered. Tho crew were saved. 11l order to assist refugees t'he Bank of England is c-ash'ng Belgian notes. The Canadian Government lias considered the cancellation of German patents in the Dominion. The Canadian M.-nister of Mil'foa. anno tmces that a res.dent of the Southern States of America has offered to raise a regiment of 1000 men for service with die Canadian contingent. The Newfound'.iand par?ament has passed war measures, inchid.ng the raising of a regiment for Imperial service. "The Opposition concurred in all measures.