BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9321, 22 August 1908, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

j » United Pres* AaioeUtion— By Elettrio I Telegraph— Copyright. I A NEW STEAMER, j LONDON, August 21. The New Zealand Shipping Company has ordered at Dumbarton a longer and J finer sister 6hip to tho Otaki. SOUTH AFRICAN MAIL SERVICE. The South African colonies unitedly invite mail tenders, on© for a thirteen and a half days Southampton-Capo Town service. The subsidy will be increased should the Admiralty bo entitled to puTchaso or hiro the iinera. THE CONGO. * BRUSSELS, August 21. Tho Belgian Chamber, by 83 to £54, voted the treaty for annexation of the Congo, also a law whereby the colony I will bo administered. | THE COTTON MARKET. Liverraore, a cotton operator, sold, owing to more propitious weather, 200,000 bales at New York, Liverpool and New Orleans yesterday. His day's loss was £180,000. A SUBSTANTIAL FINE. NEW YORK, August 21. Mrs Jack Gardener, socially prominent in Boston, attempted to smuggle into America £18,000 worth of art objects, alleging that thoy were goods used in Europe. Upon detection she was fined £80,000 and the duty of £6000. Tho fine and duty wore immediately paid. AN ATLANTIC GREYHOUND. NEW YORK, August 20. The Lusitania, going from Great Britain to New York, steamed GuO > nautical miles in twenty-four hours.