HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12531, 28 June 1906, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United pi-e«8 Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. AN AUCKLAND BREWERY. LONDON. Juno 26. Mrcsn Hancock and Co., of Auckland, New Zealand, .ire issuing at par £130.000 worth of 5* per cent, debenture stock to acquire tho Captain Cook brewery. MISS BILLINGTON'S IMPRISONMENT. Mr Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, maintained that the sentence of two montlui' imprisonment en Miks Billingtcu was but. in response to j.lr A«jiiith"s appeal for leniency, h?, -.vith the Magistrate's concurrence, reduced th-3 fine cf £10 and imprisonment by one half. THE FIRE ON THE RIMUTAKA. The water used to extinguish tho fire on the Rimutaka seriously damaged the wool. CHICAGO MEAT IN ENGLAND. Mr T. R. ISsichaii.in. Fiiinnciul Sicrotary to the Treasury, states th»t all issues of American tinned meats have Luin withheld iroui tlie treops until the Government inspector iSJnt to Chicago reports. A BASELESS STORY. liord Knollys, in reply to a corrciinondont, says that the statement in certain newspapers that Kin-; Edward, in tlie course of conversation, urged Sir Henry CaiupbeH-Banuernian to take stronger legal action against Anarchists in England, is baseless. Kinn Edward has had no conversation or communication with tho Premier or any member of the Government on tho (subject. DREYFUS INNOCENCE. PARIS, June 2G. Tho Public Prosecutor considers Dreyfus is innocent ot crime or effence, and that ivforence of the caso to another Court is useless. [A cable message received a few days ago stated tli.it the Court of Cassation was to re-open the case, owing to the preliminary enquiry into tho appeal being satisfactory.]

HAILROAD REBATES. i NEW VOItK, Juno 2G. Tho United States Senate has extended tho scope of the Inter-State Commcrco CommicKion of Incjuiry to include tho transportation and tstora-ga of grain, tho evidence cited showing that tho railroads favoured some elevator companies and discriminated against others to the detriment of the latter. AMERICAN OPEN BOOR. The House of Representatives at "Washington has amendcu tho Immigration Bill, allowing tho entry of fugitives from religious and political persecution, whether penniless or incapacitated. "A WAR OF REVENGE." ST. PISTERSBURG, June 26. General Rennekampf has been appointed commander of flic Third Siberian Corps. He declares he is convinced that a war of revenge against Japaoi is imminent. GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA. LONDON. June 26. Tho Germans defoatod the Hottentots in the Jlgcndo country, killing 3G and capturing 516. THE MIKADO AND THE PRESIDENT. (Received June 27th, 10.52 p.m.)

NEW YORK, Juno 27. Tho Mikado and President Roosevelt exchanged greetings on. the ooinplotion of the Guam-J«pan cnblo. GERMANY IN CHINA. PEKIN. Juno 27. The Deutsch Asiaische Bank obtained from China tho concession of issuing bank notes in 1907 at Tingfau and four other trading centres.