HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12378, 18 December 1905, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SUPPRESSING THE SLAVE TRAFFIC. PARIS, December 15. President Loubet has signed regulations providing more drastic penalties for overland slave dealing in West Africa. QUELLING THE HOTTENTOTS. BERLIN, Dwxmber 15. In asking for an increased vote to continue the Hottentot "war, fhe Minister • stated the troops •were unable to repol Hottentot attacks. The difficulties with the natives in SouUi-West Africa were largely due to rinderpest. WARSHIPS RECORD RUN. NEW YORK, December 16. ; Princo Louie of Batteuburg ordered , the 6hips of his cruiser squadron to pro- - ceed independently at their speed. The Drake's run from Sandy Hook to Tarifa, Mexico, averaged 18i knots, a record. I THE SHANGHAI TROUBLE. i SHANGHAI, December 15. r It is explained that the Shanghai kidnapper Ls a Chinese official's widow. China has guaranteed her innocence. ' [A previous cable stated:—The European consuls in Shanghai have ordered r the Municipal Council to release un- • conditionally « woman charged before i thf Mixed Court with kidnapping a. ! European resident. The European, residents consider this a lamentable cohcefieion to popular clamour, organised by the boycott leaders, who claimed that the woman ought to have been confined in tho Chineeo and not the municipal gaol.] THE CHICAGO BLUEBEARD. NEW YORK, December IG. The Supremo Court has confirmed the - sentence of death passed on Johann s Hoch for the murder of his numerous i wives. MORE FRENZIED FINANCE. > NEW YORK, December 16. ! Laweon, tho Boston financier, lost 3 £680,000 in an attempt to reduce the . prico of copper. Ho intends to stake his whole fortune in an attempt to bring the prico to the normal value. CANADA AND JAPAN. OTTAWA, December 16. The early inclusion of Canada within tho Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty of 1894 will give Canadian goods "most favoured nation" treatment in Japanese markets. Japan secures corresponding > benefits notably the cessation of the .. harassing anti-Japanese legislation in British Columbia. - AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE. > LONDON, December 16. l Edward May sued the Tuff Vale Raili way, at tho Cardiff Assizes for i compensation for the loss of his legs through falling from a train and being run over. Tho defendants stated that I May bought insurance coupons, took a "three liandkerchiefs for bandages, lay j on the metals, and sacrificed his limbs. A verdict was given for tho defendants. r CHINA AND JAPAN. ; PEKIN, December 16. ( Tho chief points of the new Japanese j treaty with China is that Japan leases the Kwantung (sic) Peninsula, tho lease expiring 1923. China ultimately <ne- - purchases the railway. Japanese Consulates and garrisons guarding the railway will be stationed at Niuchwang, Mukden, Antung, Kirin, and Shangtung. The customs will bo restored to ) China. - BRITISH TEXTILE INDUSTRIES, i LONDON, December 16. t The summarised evidence taken by - the Tariff Commission on tho textile 1 industries shows that as regards hosiery > practically all the witnesses dwelt 1 on the serious restriction resulting from the loss of foreign markets. Trade was increasing in the home, neutral, and colonial markets, especially in cotton 'hosiery. Manufacturers of fancy hosiery and underclothing stated that they woro holding their own in Australia. FRONTIER WAR THREATENED. LONDON, December 16. Reuters Peshawar correspondent [ states that the (Mullah at Powinda, bey longing to tho Mahsud trite, was imt plicated in the murder of Major Donaldi son, of tho Bawnu Brigade. The crime wae planned in revenge for the punishment of tho murderers of another of tho officers. Anticipating Government j action, the Mullah has called a con--3 ' ferenco of the tribe, and is apparently 3 bent on fighting. He has requested the 1 Ameer's aid. The Government has notij ; fied the Mahsud tribe that it intends to ■ make definite demands and vigorously > enforce them. PECULIAR ACCIDENT TO THE KING. > (Received December 18th, 0.37 a.m.) ■ < LONDON, December 17. ' While King Edward was shooting at Welbeck, Earl do Grey shot a pheasant, which struck the King on the head, " stunning him for a short while. There » . were, however, no ill-effects.