BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 22 March 1910, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

[FXK FBMS ASSOCIATION, —COPIBIQHI,] EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. CAIRO, March 2T.—.Mr Roosevelt visited the temples at Philac and the Assouan dam. Speaking to a deputation of Dative officers of the Egyptian Array Air Roosevelt warned them against combining soldiery and polities.The ex-President arrives in Naples on April 2nd, and from thence proceeds to Paris and Vienna, reaching Berlin on May 10th, London on the lath and America early in June. AN IRISH PHILANTHROPIST. LONDON, March 21.—Patrick Murphy, of Newry, willed £20,000 to charitable institutions and the residue of his estate of £103,450 to the Urban Council of Newry to pay the Municipal debt.

CANADA AND THE STATES. NEW YORK, .March 22.—President Taft and Earl Grey (Governor of Canada) have met at Albany. The tariff negotiations there, however, have proved conclusionless. The speeches of Earl Grey and Air Taft were candid. Air Taft declared that the people of the United States had been slow to realise the potentialities of Canada. They must, he added, be as close friends as possible. THE REMAINS OF BUDDA. CALCUTTA, Alarch 20—Lord Alinto. Viceroy of Idia, has presented the golden casket, containing the relics of Budda recently discoverci at Peshawar j to a Burmese delegation. The Viceroy ' expressed the hope that pilgrims would visit Mandalay from al parts of the world. A COSTLY PAINTING. NEW YORK, Alarch 20—Otto Kahn (of New York) has bought Frank Hall’s painting of himself and family for £IOO,OOO. He outbid Alorgan, who offered £BO,OOO.

BRUCE’S ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. LONDON, March 20.—Oreat efforts are being made in Scotland to raise funds for Dr Bruce’s Antarctic expedition. BUILDING TURKEY’S NAVY. LONDON, March 20.—The firms of Armstrong, Vickers and John Brown have secured the contract for two Turkish battleships and two cruisers, at a cost of five millions sterling. A 818 SHIPPING FIRM. LONDON, March 20.—Lord Pirrie is forming a company with a capital of two millions to acquire Alfred Jones’ shiping busines. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. LONDON/ March 20.—Capt. Jas. Henry Edward Holford was committed for trial at Old Bailey for obtaining tiaras and necklaces of diamonds to the value of several thousand pounds from various jewellers and then pawning them. THE PASSING OF THE FORESTS. LONDON, March 20.—The Times, commenting on the necessity of replacing the forests throughout the Empire strongly blames Australia for disregarding the conservation of timber, the wanton sacrifice of which will bring retribution.

FISHERMEN RESCUED. LONDON, March 20.—The Russian fishermen who were blown out to sea on an ice floe in the Guff of I inland, were rescued. LONDON’S UNEMPLOYED. LONDON, March 20.— The central unemployed body of London is sending Williamson as organising officer for six months to Australia and New Zealand to ascertain the attitude of the Government’s and people towards immigration. CANADIAN COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY. OTTAWA, March 20.— Canada is appointing a commercial agent in Germany. Canadian papers report a great influx of commercials and thousands of circulars and letters-from German manufacturers. RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. ST PETERSBURG, March 20.—Russia and Austria have exchanged verbal assurances of common recognition of the status quo in the Balkans, and there is a resumption of cordial relations which were interrupted by Anst ria’s annexation of Bosnia and Herzgovina.

ANGLO-FRENCH RECIPROCITY. LONDON, March 20.— Government has given France 25 per cent reduction on tariff rates, and I ranee concedes the minimum tariff on certain iron and stfel commodities, agricultural implements ami other leading goods. NEW NAVAL AIRSHIP. LONDON, March 20.— Vickers firm has nearly completed a naval airship 500 ft long. It is constrneted of a new metal seven times stronger than aluminum, and only slightly heavier, ihe machine is intended for scouting at sea on the north-cast coast.