HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10012, 16 April 1898, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Uaited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright; Received April 15th, 9.35 a.m. GERMANY AND THE BRITISH COLONIES. Berlin, April 14. The German Press declares that Germany will not grant favoured nation treatment to the British colonies, unless German imports are admitted on the same terms as British. BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA CHARTERED COMPANY. London, April 14. The shareholders in the British South Africa Chartered Company propose the appointment of Messrs Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit and Maguire to the directorate of the company. The report of the Chartered Company to he presented to the meeting of shareholders, speaks hopefully of the future of Rhodesia, and states that it is proposed to borrow a million and a half. WINDFALL FOR A SOCIALIST. By the death of Captain Urquhart, who was killed in the recent battle in the Soudan, Mr H. H. Champion, the well-known socialist advocate, of Melbourne, inherits an estate worth £7000 a year. TELEGRAPHIC. Mr Playford, the Agent-General for South Australia, is ordering copper wire to duplicate the overland telegraph line between Adelaide and Port Darwin. Received April 15th, 10.20 p.m. THE QUEEN ON THE CONTINENT. Paris, April 14. President Faure visited the Queen at Cimiez, near Nice, to-day. The Prince of Wales afterwards visited the President. • Received April 16th, 12.55 a.ra. THF FROZEN MEAT TRADE. London, April 15. The combination of lamb importers has collapsed, owing to defections from the ranks. A FINANCIAL COMPANY. The balance sheet of the North British and New Zealand Investment Company shows a profit of £2,068. A dividend of 2| per cent, has been declared. Rec?ivel April 16th, 1 a.m. ANOTHER REVOLT IN THE PHILIPPINES. Thursday Island, April 15. News from the East announces a further serious outbreak of rebellion in the Philippines. SENT TO SIBERIA. The St. Petersburg correspondent of Tlu Times telegraphs that Privy Councillor General Peronoff and his daughter have been sentenced to Siberia for life for selling to Austrian agents military documents relating to the defences of Russia, and that five others, mostly officials, have received lesser sentences.