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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 143, 26 September 1910, Page 5

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A TOURING REGIMENT. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received September 26, 12.20 a.m. London, Slepter :>er 25. The Army Council deny appi .. al of the tournament tour. VIVISECTION. Received September 25, 5.15 p.m. London., September 25. A petition bearing 850,000 signatures, including those of 1305.doctors, will be present to Parliament asking exemption for dogs for vivisection purposes. EFFECTS OF BRITISH BUDGET. Received September 25, 5.15 p.m. London, September 24. As a result of the Budget, the Right Hon. W. H. Long,' M.P., is selling the greater part of his Wiltshire estate at auction. THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. Ottawa, September 23. Messrs. Skinner and, Burbidge, directors of the Hudson's Bay Company, are visiting Canada, and will inaugurate big changes at Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancower. THE KAISER'AND AUSTRIA. Vienna, September 23. The municipality is erecting a tablet to comanemotrate the Kaiser's "shining armour" speech. The Austrian press is enthusiastic about the project. ' THE KING AND THE TURF. London, September 23. The King is a liberal subscriber to weight-for-age races in 191M2-13, .including tllie Newmarket, Doncaster Liverpool, Newbury and Hirst Park meetings. ILLEGAL ENTRY OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS. Vancouver, September 23. J. M. Bowel], of Vancouver, son of the Hon. Mackenzie Bowell, Controller of Chinese, has been suspended as the sequel £6 an investigation of the illegal entry of Chinese into Canada. A LIBEL ACTION SETTLED. London, September 23. Mr. Keir Handle's action against Mr. Creswel'l, candidate for mid-Derbyshire in January, who' declared that Kier Hardde's, speeches in India culminated in" the murder of Sir Curaon Wylie, who wafc shot at the Imperial Institute by a Hindoo, has been settled privately. SIR GEORGE REID AND THE KING. London, September 23. iSir G. Reid starts to-night to visit the King at Balmoral. MORE VESSELS FOR AUSTRALASIA. .London, September,23, . ?, Messrs. Workman, Clark and Co. ■have launched the Star of India for the Australian and New Zealand, frozen meat trade, and Messrs'. Barland and Wolff have launched the Themistocles. LECTURES ON THE EMPIRE. London, ■ September 23. The Royal Colonial Institute is making an appeal for sulbscrdptions in aid of lectures' on the Empire in the provinces, universities, schools and agricultural centres. THE PAGEANT OF EMPIRE. London, September 23. The Council of the Pageant of Empire Exhibition, which will be held next year, has decided to exclude foreign goods'. . ACCIDENT AT A BULL FIGHT. Madrid, September 23. At a bull fight at Danajas, near Madrid, a stand collapsed. One person was killedi and many injured. A hull also killed' a matador. A GUN EXPLOSION. Cairo, September 23. While a metal firm was. dismounting an old cannon at Alexandria a gun charge, forgotten since the days of Arabi Pasha, in 1882, exploded, and two persons were seriously hurt, and three received injuries less severe. •A MINE REOPENED. London, September 23. Tlie Wellington mine at Whitehaven, which was sealed up aifteir the disaster in May, has .been reopened, and the recovery of the 136 bodies still below will begin after ventilation has been restored'.