BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 4 September 1908, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(United Press Association Copyright.) LONDON, September 2. Arthur Guinness, Ltd., have given their shareholders a bonus of 100 per cent, out of revenue, by the allotment of 2,500,000 new shares of £1 each. Great gales are raging all over England, doing much damage to shipping and te'egraph lines. The British income tax returns for 1906-7 show the gross incomes at 943 millions. Tax was paid on 640 millions. There were 20 incomes of over £50,000 a year, and 241 between £10,000 and £50.,00 P.

Premier Kidsten attended a re-union of 24.0 of his schoolfellows at Falkirk including the Provost. The meeting presented •Mr Kidstcn with a portrait of his old schoolmaster.

Air James Boyd, the Victorian Commissioner, in. a letter to the "Daily Mail," denounces Mr Tillett's statements re unemployed distress in Melbourne as gross .slanders. The French Press strongly condemns Germany's action in Morocco.

English newspapers of all shades also disapprove.

: The "Chronicle" says that Germany's calculated audacity once more -shows her resentment to the Anglo-French entente.

The "Westminster Gazette/ a proGerman organ, doubts whether there is any present necessity for Germans intervention in Morocco.

Tho "Times, '\ in its article on tLe Gorman action in Morocco, continues that either step, standing alone, would have give na shock to public fceline, but, coming together, the disturbing impression they must create will be cumulative. France and Spain, as the mandatories of Europe, and as the two Towers whose special position in Morocco is explicitly recognised "by the Algeciras treaty, aro entitled in ordinary courtesy to claim reasonable opportunity for an exchange of views"" b^folo making proposals to others. Every circumstance cornoctod with Dr Vasscl's mission suggests political, not commercial consideration as the real reason for Gonnanv's, action.

In the chess tournament Laskar bns won four games and Tarrasch one game.