BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9916, 3 August 1910, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

- - United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 3, 8.5 a.m.) CHURCH OF ENGLAND MEN'S SOCIETY.

LONDON, August 2,

The membership of the Church of EngUiid Men's Society is 103,000, including 194 1 branches oversea. BRITISH IMPERIAL EXHIBITION.

Sir G. H Reid, Lord Strathcona, Sir Richard Solomon, Mr Winston Churchill, Colonel Seely and Lord Selborae are amongst those supporting the holding of a British Imperia! Exhibition in London in 1914 or 1915. LIBELLING A PRIEST.

After a trial lasting four days Annie Tugwell, wife of the registrar of births at Sutton, Surrey, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for libelling Canon Cafferata, a Catholic priest, and others, accusing them of gross immorality. ! A MADMAN'S CRIME.

'Til*discharged fireman at San Diego, who becamo insane and shot throe of hie mates., boat'his wife and child to death and then escaped in the darkness, ultimately turned the revolver upon himself. Tho bullet entered his head and a serious wound was inflicted, from which he is not expected to recover. TINNED MEAT TENDERS. The War Office is inviting tenders by November 9 for 412,500 twelveounce tins of meat and 68,750 twentyfour ounce, to be delivered in January and February. THE'AGAMEMNON. Tiie Agamemnon, which went ashore at Cloughey, has been refloated and has arrived at Belfast. WAR BALLOONS.

English officers, experimenting with balloons over the Thames, proved that bombs could be effectively dropped from a height of two hundred feet at a speed of eighteen miles an hour. THE KING'S MEDALS.

Tho King has bestowed medals on the heroes of the Whitehaven mining disaster, ■on several seamen, and on his father's old servants. THE KAISER,

The Kaiser will visit the C*ar and Czaritsa at Darmstadt at the end of August. __„____»