BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7738, 18 April 1896, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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m. t, , London, April 16. me Budget discloses no fresh taxation proposals. Tha surplus is to be expended turrets 111011 ' and th ° relief ° f a S rion, - The Johanneabnrg correspondent of jhe Tunes wires that the English fear the action of bir Hercules Bobinson in not askinir for an locreased garrison at Gape Town will «ncourage the burghera in their belief that .hey wiU not insist on reforms being carried out President Kruger deprecates a show ?nh"t 6 e O Th hl!otheTranßVaaliß3rnji^ t0 The Trust Agency Company of Australia has dsclared a dividend of 20 per cent. The Itagluh, Scottish, and Australian Banfe shows a profit of £2537 A lort, nf nu. At,. Oape t °WH, April 17. Tha Australian residents of the Band have offered Earl Grey iOOO mon forservfce n Matabeleland. The Boers prevented Mr Fowler from commanding the relief expedition to Buluwayo on the ground that his evidenoe was required at the trial of members of the Reform Party at Pretoria. Eighteen chiefs have asked for British protection in the present trouble. Oaibo, April 16 W^l e H fl r ?f Ondly -n trib6B , in the ™inity'of Wady Haifa wiU patrol both sides of the Nile. Friendly natives at Tokar defeated oJman Digna, and fcdled eighty of his force, their own loss numbering only nine. St. Pbtbbbbubg, April 16 A iJussian warship will convey 1,1 Hung Chang from Port Baid to Odessa. Hβ is to represent China at the coronation ceremony. Iha Russian Government has asked Bulgaria to re-instato the offiaers who took refuge m Buseian territory a ftsr Kinu; Alexander abdioated the Throne. Borne, April Iβ. General Baldissera advises the Government that he will awuit the result of peaoe -■ negotiations before relieving Adigrat. „-*" Bbbijw, April 16 The new system of rebate on freight on the German railways will enable Westphalian coal to be landed in England at s sufficiently low rate to compete with Eng--'Fu he i ? er S aa Government is negotiatiH* with the New Guinea Company for the transfer of Us rights with a view to the colony being brought under direot Imperial