BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 7 April 1908, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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LONDON, April 5. The Trust Agency Company of Australasia has declared a dividend of 7£ per cent. D. and A. Murray have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. Boxing will be included in tba Olympian games in October if five countries enter.

Hearing rumours that the Government was likely to issue regulations to prevent the use of preservatives in butter, Mr. Taverner, Agent General for Victoria, asked the Right Hon. John Burns to give reasonable notice to the Colonies. Mr. Burns promised to consider the matter.

The North' Brunner Coal Company of New Zealand, with a capital of £150,000 has been registered.

With a view to extending to teachers of the State Colleges the pensions hitherto provided for teachers in private institutions, Mr. Carnegie has added a million sterling for the endowment of the Carnegie Foundation; for the Advancement of teaching. The keel of the Vanguard, the seventh Dreadnought, has been laid at Barrow. She is to carry 13£-inch guns. Alfred Vanderbilt, who is en route to England, is being sued in divorce. A newspaper states that he agreed to pay his wife £300,000. The trial is proceeding in, camera.

DURBAN. April 5. Mr. W. P. Schreiner Avill appear as senior counsel at Dinizulu's trial.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 6. The Douma deputies under sentence are now being segregated,- and some havo started for Siberia. ■

CALCUTTA, April 5. The telegraph operators of India, dissatisfied with the regulations introduced by Mr. Newlands, the expert lent by f -v-B-itisb Post Office, have been wilfn 1v - 1 lv.-'n-r messaws.' Two thousand tele >;rar.s r.-"-" stored' at Rangoon, and cablegrams (V^m F.^rop". via Teheran. a .vf> sP'Hously Vod at Karachi and

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