HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11525, 6 March 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Elootrio Telegraph—Copyright.

MINING AMALGAMATION. (Received March sth, 9.19 a.m.) LONDON, March 4. The proposal to amalgamate the Mount Lyell Company and the North Mount Lyell

Mining Company is favourably received vi London. NAVY COALING STATIONS. Mr Arnold-Forster's proposal to transfer certain coaling stations from the War Office to the Admiralty has been abandoned. / THE LATE DR. PARKER'S SUCCESSOR. The Rev. Reginald John Campbell, pastor of the Union Church at Brighton, has succeeded the lat© Dr. Parker in the pastorate of the City Temple. ENGLAND'S ALIENS. Sir C. E. Howard Vincent, M.P. for Sheffield, has introduced a BLJI providing for the exclusion or export of criminal aliens. PROPOSED MINISTER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. The Right Hon. C. T. Ritchie, Chancellor of tho Exchequer, lias promised to hold an enquiry in reference to the unemployed Conference's request for the appointment of a Minister of Commerce and Industry. THE COLOMBIAN TARIFF. NEW YORK, March 4. The Colombian tariff import duties have been doubled. THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY. Tho ratifications of the Aii>ska boundary treaty have been exchanged at Washington. • / ANOTHER, CARNEGIE GIFT. Mr Carnegie has given ££00,003 sterling to the Princeton University. GERMAN HOPES IN BRAZIL. BERLIN. March 4. Germany is much perturbed by American capitalists offering to construct a land grant railway from Destetro, Santa Catharina, in Brazil, to the Argentine frontier, thus blighting the hopes cf a great German [ settlement of Brazil. } THE SOMALI CAMPAIGN. (Received March, s;h, 8.7 a.m.) LONDON, March 4. In the House of Commons the Right Hon. St. John Brodricfc, Secretary for War, stated that the Scmaliland expedition would be restricted to checking the Mullah's encroachments and safeguarding the tribes under our protection. BISHOP OF NSW GUINEA. (Received March sth, 12.20 a.m.) King Edward gran:ed a reception to Bishop Stone-Wigg. SIR ARTHUB HODGSON* Th-9 estate of the hte Sir Arthur Hodgeon was eworn at marly £60,000. VENEZUELAN WARSHIPS RE- ' TURNED. Reuters agency jtates that Great Brittin lias restored tie captured Venezuelan warships. THE REVOLT IN MOROCCO. The rebels in Morocco attacked the forces •iJiHcr Menebbi After a severe , fight retired with the loss of fifty killed and a hundred rounded. He- was afterwarda reinforced. AMERICAN NAVY. WASHINGTON, March 5. Congress fhm'.h adopted ike "Naval appropriation of sixteen millions sterling. Provision was nuue for three battle ships ranging from 16,000 to 13,000 tons.

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