BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume CV, Issue 16076, 25 September 1916, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

A VERBAL BOMBARDMENT. IMPORTANT CIVIL CASE. (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Assn.) Received 5.5 p.m., Sept. 24th. ■ : • LONDON, Sept. 22. Mr 'W. H. Upjohn concluded a fourty-four days speech in the Globe Phoenix: gold mining case. The action concerns the ownership of half a million worth of .gold, and has lasted 144 'days.:' 'The legal fight cost £150,000. Judgment was reserved. TAFT AND! ROOSEVELT RECONCILED. IN MR HUGHES'S INTERESTS. ~( <c The Times.") LONDON, Sept. 23. "The Times" New York corresipondrent states that Mr Roosevelt and Mr I Taft have agreed upon a public reconciliation in Mr Hughes's interests. GENERAL STRIKE IN NEW. YORK NEW YORK, Sept. 22. - Unionist leaders have ordered 800;000 New York unionists of all kinds to ; strike on the 27th in support of the car men. Tho militia is being held in readiness to suppress violence; AMERICAN WHEAT SHORTAGE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Owing to the'high cost of ilour the bakers' are petitioning Congress to prohibit the export of: wheat during;-the coming winter: SUMATRA REBELLION. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 23. The Sumatra rebels were defeated with ' heavy losses near Djambi ,and four of the ringleaders were executed. CHINA BORROWLNG. .. PEKIN, Sept. 21. ' The Minister of Finance has asked the, Representatives"of the Five Powers group for a Joan of ten millions sterling oil the security of the sale gabelle. : .CHURCHES. t SCHEME OF FEDERATION. (A-,usfralfan -a.iid,N.Z: ..Cable Assn.) LONDON, Sept. 22. The Evangelical Free Church Conference decided that in any federation of the Freo Churches communicants should be oligiblo for admission to communion in any of the federated churches; that tho Federal Council should consist of members appointed by the assemblies and superior Courts of the federated Churches; the Council should have general advisory powers ■anc! such, executive and administrative powers as the federating Churches may confer. The conference will reassemble liext spring to receive reports from various committees.