Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2769, 24 April 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

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London, April. 22. Sir Thomas Sutherland, of the P. and 0" Line, states that the Bagdad Railw:iy will never bent Peninsula and ( ricntal Steamship Company's thirteen days' service t4 Bombay. King Edward has left Syracuse Bay for Rome. The Right Hon. C. T. Richie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has submitted to the House of Commons a return showing that nfter meeting local expenditure the balance of England's revenue available for Imperial expenditure is £87,610,000, Scotland's .£1,099,600 and Ireland's £2,570,000. The gales, which have been raging in Europe, are moderating. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has formed a committee of a hundred merchants to promote a permanent arbi tration treaty between Great Britain and France. Scottish feeling is incensed that neither King Edward nor the High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland is occupying Holyrood during the approaching official visits. The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, the Premier, states that Jthe Palace was in an insanitary condition. Paris, April 22. Paris newspapers state that M. Loubct, the President, will spend three days in England in July, residing at the Embassy, the French northern fquadron escorting him. Dr Charcot, is equipping a French Antartic expedition. Berlin, April 22. Heir Schneider, a Berlin chemist, after travelling in Australia, has induced to use "satosin," made from nrfciiyptus oil mixed with , sulphur iino.Vhiircoal, evaporated over alcohol lamps. The patients inhale the vapour. The remedy has been used in hospitals, and sixty out of a hundred cases of tuberculosis treated were cured. German newspapers are increasingly iritated nt the Canadian surcharge and threaten retaliation with a 50 per cent tax on Canada's corn exports to Germany. Boasts are also made that Germany can evade the surtax by exporting through a German middleman, residing in England. German newspapers publish a telegram, sent to the Sultan's Albanian bodyguard, suggesting the murder of M. Stcherbina, the Russian Consul. Constantinople, April 22. The Ridif battalion, at Ganina, tried to kill an officer for boxing a soldier's ears, and they were only pacified on condition that the officer was punished. Capetown, April 22. Five privates have been sentenced to death for murdering private Carey of the Second Leinsters during the riot at Pretoria last month.