BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9912, 29 July 1910, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 29, S.o a.m.) RELEASED. LONDON, July 28. The '-'Morning Loader" says that Philip Bernstein, a forger, who was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in ISO2, has been released. AMERICAN PEACE CENTENARY. The Toronto correspondent of the "Times" says that Mr Lloyd George and the Presidents of Franco and the United States will be invited to tho peace centenary ot Canada and the United States. A FRENCH OBSERVATORY. The French Academy of Sciences has accepted the gift of an observatory to be erected at Quito, in Ecuador. TEACHING THE TEACHERS. Three hundred' and twenty-live German school teachers from various parte of the Empire have been shown through - tho dockyards at Kiel. SOUR MILK TREATMENT. A keen discussion took place at the Medical Congress on the sour milk treatment, which was condemned by many speakers. ARGENTINE MEAT TRADE. i Sir J. AY. Benn, after a tour through the Argentine, addressed the London Chamber of Commerce. Ho said the American trusts wore making huge efforts to capture the frozen meat trade, but he did not believe they would succeed. EMBEZZLEMENT.

Rochctti, the Parisian financier, .has been .sentenced to two years' imprisonment for embezzlement and infringement of tho company law. Several of his associates received minor punishment*?.