BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1131, 11 March 1910, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

B_ ELEOIBIO TELKGEA.PH —OOPTEIQHX. FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. DOUBT CAST UPON PEARY. New York, March 10. A sub-committee of the House of Representatives decided against the United States Naval Department honouring Commander Peary until he submits proof of his having reached the North Pole. Members questioned the accuracy of his statement that his marches averaged 26 miles from leaving Captain Bartlett until he reached the Pole, and 44 miles daily until he rejoined Captain Bartlett, whereas the greatest speed before and after was nine miles a day. March 11, 8.20 a.m,) . C__N_LDA AND U.S.A. London, Alarch 10. The Toronto correspondent of the Times reports that the American Commissioners have returned from Washington, and adds: "There is no occasion to believe that Canada ihas promised a tariff concession, though. it is likely there will be negotiations later m view of the reciprocal treaty. Meantime, it is expected that President Taft will .proclaim that Canada is entitled to a minimum tariff chough that necessitates the straining of the Act of Congress. ONE GETS OFF, THE OTHER GOES TO SIBERIA. St - Petersburg, March. _v. In the" case against the Russian Anarchist, Ts_.aikov.-_ky, a verdict of not proven was given, and "lie was acquitted. The defence showed that records of Government witnesses were tne work of police .minions. Madame Breschowikaia, aged 78 who was tried at the same time, admitted having expressed revolutionSiberiT mmts ' and was exil ed to FLYING TO THE POLE. pi- -.- Bei ' l , iu ' March '10. liofessoi. Herg-sell, who is associated with Count Zeppelin in the project to explore the Arctic regions by means of .an airship, has informed the Airship League at Hamburg that two airships will he used in the expediNoV' 16 .° .i fllg -, St 0 tlle far &-st North, and the other to remain at Spitsbergen as an auxiliary. SOME OTHER ITEMS. The Prince of Wales has given the Kings Colonials £1000 towards' the luncl tor training contingents, which owing to the distance ffom London g. S ant. m ° re " the VV._? d r? ite ? u official assurance, Sir Nil red Laurier s health is causing f.nm y m ff Ca J . acla -' He is suffei.nl iiom an effcetion of the facial nerves^ l m M _rs& rapidly c (s «- to£S m, s year.) 7.rii, c steamei ; Oevic, bound from Bnsbane for London, struck ground JW?t ? r eZ £. aUal ' , ancl retuiSed'to Port Said. She is dischargmg' cargo leaking 08 3 " d 2 h ° lds ' W^ch a ™ A feature of the great army pageant at Fulham (England) in Jiine next will be representations of the Mindin victories at Settingent, Coruiina, Barossa, and Badajoz by members of the regiments which participated in those actions. ' The Hon. D. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer,' haa received an illuminated address and a greenstone paper knife from his Welsh' admirers m New Zealand. The Military League at Athens demands the expropriation of landlords at Ihessaly, notwithstanding treaties guaranteeing Moslems' rights. H " xle y< one of defendants in the Ronald v. Harper conspiracy case, has been arrested in Sydney. It is estimated that the'population of the Commonwealth of Australia on December 31 was: Males, 2,305,637; females, 2,008,501. ' ' Czar Ferdinand and Czarina Eleo- _,'°_ c of nulgaria have returned to Sofia from St. Petersburg. General Paprikoff, Minister for Foreign Affairs, who accompanied them, states that an agreement has been reached for the preservation of peace in the Balkans and the maintenance of concord among Balkans nations. Obituary—Dr. Luezer, the antiSemitic Burgomaster of Vienna. The Yokohama correspondent of the Now York Herald states that the police have arrested seventeen clerks and workmen afc the Yokosaka Naval Arsenal for purloining several thousand pounds worth of platinum and other metals _ince 1902. The Canadian House of Commons, hy 129 to 74, passed the Naval Bill. The Canadian Northern Railway Co. is inaugurating a line of 21-knot steamers from Bristol to Canada, beginning in May. , It is stated in Paris that the defalcations of Duoz. from the French religious institutions will probably total £400,000, Mr Shakespeare, Secretary of the English Baptist Union, speaking at the Free Church Conference at Hull, advocated <a United Free Church for England, consisting of various nonConformist churches as autonomous sections. The suggestion was referred to a committee. Dr Spi_ck_r. of Berlin, supported a resolution in favour of interna_ional peace at the Hull Church Conference. He declared that the time was coming when Britain and Germany would have to unite to withstand the competition of America in trade. Three severe shocks of earthquake were felt at Matupi, in New Britain, on February 27 and March 28. The inhabitants were greatly alarmed The Rev. D. Leslie, a returned missionary from India, speaking at the -Methodist Conference in Melbourne, said there was no more public-spirited body of men-than those in the Indian Civil Service. The native of India was a professional agitator. The agitation for _e_f--_----vernment was not a democratic movement, but an aristocratic one of the most blatant kind, by men who had more respect for the lives of their K__ n tte llyes of tlieir fo s>* S^tn!^? 1 ' itor of Allahabad fen aroiya, has been sentenced to five years -transportation at Calcutta for publishing a _e_.fej_.us book. ' llio verdict in- case of Watson . hn^lTf- PUg .¥- wh ° di«d X death ln U g ' WaS accideQ tal