HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12189, 9 May 1905, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

— I United Preea Axaociaikra—By Euectfio TeJcgwpb—Copyright. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS. LONDON, May 7. The imports for April declined £1,899,000, and the exports increased £664,000, compared with the previous j April. j A SOCIETY WEDDING. j Major Henry Trefusis has married ! Lady Mary Lygon. : [Lady Mary Lygon is Earl Beau- j champ's sister. She was born in 1869, I and was appointed Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess of Wales in 1895. She accompanied the Princess during the recent Royal tour of the colonies.] j HUNGARIAN POLITICAL AMENITIES. VIENNA, May 7. Owing to a personal insult in the Hungarian Diet, Count Tisza has sent seconds to M. Pogvksy, his instilter. j A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP. j (Received May Bth, 9.18 p.m.) LONDON, May 8. ! A treaty of friendship and commerce between Britain and Cuba hae been signed at Havana, under which tho favoured nation clause is THE SHAH'S VISIT TO EUROPE. (Received May Bth, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, May 8. The Shah has loft Teheran on a visit to Europe. BRESOI'S ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE. LONDON, May 8. Biondino, the alleged accomplice of Bresci, in tho assassination of xving Humbert, of Italy, in July, 1900. who fled to Zanzibar ;>nd became a Mahommedau, has now b«en arrested at Cairo. LENIENT TREATMENT OF A SPY. LONDON, May 8. Horwitz, alias Orvitch, who was arrested at Singapore on a charge of espionage, has been sentenced to throe months' imprisonment on a charge of trespassing, and fined £50 for having skotching implements in his possession. AN ANGLO-FRENCH DISPUTE. (Received May Bth, 9.18 p.m.) LONDON, 'May 8. The differences between • Britain and France regarding Muscat will bo discussed at the Hague Convention, in June. [Some excitement was occasioned in February, 1899, by the action of the captain of a British warship, in compelling the Sultan of Oman (of which Muscat is the capital), under penalty of bombardment, to annul a concession made to France for a coal depot. M. Deloaeee stated, in tho Chamber of Deputies, that the British Government had acknowledged that France and England were entitled to a coal depot on the earn© condifcione, and had expreeeed regret at tho form of their intervention. On the British side, it was stated that the concession wee for a harbour ajid naval port, and not for a mere coaling station, and that the intervention had been taken under the instructions of the Imperial Government. Oman ie an independent State in South eastern Arabia, and Muscat is an important trading centre. Close relations have existed for some time between the Government of India and Oman. Tho Sultan ie pledged not to cede any of hie territory ,to any Power but Britain, and British warehipe have assisted him in mamtainisg hie authority against rebellioue tribes.]