BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9914, 1 August 1910, Page 1

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association/—By Eleotrio , • Telegraph—Copyright. QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY. LONDON, July 30. ? A return shows'that Queen Annes bounty increases the minimum ol Church, livings, where the pariah contains above* five hundred, population, to £2OQ per annum, It affects 14 liringa, at a cost of £90,823. ' v CHINESE COLONISATION. China is extending colonisation m Manchuria and Mongolia, chiefly by tettlers from the southern provinces. BUBONIC PLAGUE. Two cases of plague are reported from Cairo, DEPOSED. NEW YORK, July 30. Mr George Westinghouse, for twen-ty-five years the autocratic head of the Westinghouse Company,, has been deposed by the directors from the presidency after prolonged friction. NATIONAL CURRENCY ASSOCIA- : ' f . TION. : Twenty-seven national banks have founded a National CWney Associafcion in New York under the terms oi the emergency currency law. PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 30. Congress elected Marshal Herni^Da, Fonesea President by a hundred and seTenty-four to fifty-four. ,