BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 10 December 1908, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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LONDON, December 8

S. M. Ziman, of Auckland, has been elected to an honorary mathematical scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford. British imports for ' November decreased £7,238,000, exports decreased £6,715,000, and re-exports increased £550,000, compared with the previous November. It is officially announced that King Ed word is better. The journey from Norfolk to London in no way exercised a prejudicial effect on the King. Mr Taverner, Victorian Agent-Gen-eral, interviewed, said he was in hopes of the speedy universal publication, by the International Agricultural Institute of Government figures relating to wheat, wool, and other products, to check, to seme extent, tho speculation of middlemen, Tho "Standard" states that Lord Kitchener will shortly be created a Field Marshal, with'the task cf cooperating with the colonies for the consolidating of all*the Empire's land forces into a homogeneous army, giving it a mobilisation for war plan. NEW YORK, December 9. President Roosevelt declares that -it is infamous for. American newspapers to assert that an American syndicate profited to the extent of five millions from the eight millions sterling paid to Franco for her rights in Panama. Congress has ordered an investigation of the .matter. CALCUTTA, December .8. An accidental explosion in the cartridge factory at Dumdum, .Bengal, killed 11 natives and injured 26.