HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12479, 16 April 1906, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. GERMAN AND RUSSIAN LOANS. LONDON, April 13. Both tho German Imperial and Russian leans woro subscribed one and a lialf times. "Tho Times" pays the nninvounablo market is attributed to Germany's mismanagement of foreign affairs and the restlessness of her policy. THE NEW HEBRIDES QUESTION. PARIS, April 13. In the French Chamber, M. Deschanel said that independently of the difficulties of carrying out tho arrangonients of the duell regime in tho New Hebrides, the agreement between Britoin and Franco did not ecern to make sufficient allowance for France's preponderating interest. ENGLISH INFLUX INTO PARIS. Over 10,000 English visitoTs reached Paris yesterday. LARGE CONTRACTS FOR STEEL. NEW YORK, April 13. The United States Steel Corporation hae contracted to supply 50,000 tons of eteol for the 200 bridges to bo built on tho Seoul-Wiju railway in Korea. A SPLENDID BEQUEST. ROME, April 14. Mr William Hibbert, who died nt Florence, bequeathed to Great Britain \{Jj collection of arms, armour, ami pictures, north £250.000, with a lrniintcmanco fund of £32,000~ FATE OF FRAUDULENT CONTRACTORS. NEW YORK, April 14. Gaymor amd Gnecii., the oantraotoirs wlvo tvckv recently extradited from Canada, have beetn sentenced at Atlanta, Georgia, to four years' imprisonment, and fined £115,130 for defrauding tho GovernnwMiit in ooninioctdon with tho Savanmah harbour ■works. The Go-vcimmen-b spent £20,000 and tho defendants £30,000 in connection with. tho case. [This ca.se was considered one of great importance. The men fled to Canada and wore arrested t'liere, but the Canadian Courts quashed the arrest. Tho Privy Council, however, reversed this decision.] THE POSTAL STRIKE IN PARIS. • PARIS, April 14. Throe hundred postal strikers in I'a-ris have already been, suspended.