BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10310, 31 March 1894, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[BY ELSOTRW TELVQRAPUi— OOPTHTSHT. | {Special to Pbesb Association.] THEBBAW’S JEWELS. LONDON, March 29 A dying soldier has confessed that himself and a comrade stole and buried King Theebaw’s jewels, in Mandalay, during the Burmese war. Lord Kimberley, Foreign Secretary, has despatched the survivor to find the spot, and will grant him 10 per cent of the property recovered. THE BEHRING- SEA ARBITRATION. The United States Government has requested Great Britain to legalise the award in the Behring Sea arbitration case immediately. Sir Charles Russell is drafting a Bill for the purpose. THE COSTA RICA PACKET CASE. Mr J. H. Hogan, M.P., writing in the Westminster Review, says that people in the colonies are indignant' at the treatment meted out to Captain Carpenter, of the barque Costa Rica Packet, by the Dutch authorities, and that they expect the Imperial Government to exact payment of exemplary compensation as an act of plain duty. THE PACIFIC SERVICE. March SO. Mr Huddarfc is arranging with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company ts erect cold stores at Vancouver. The Colonial Party will urge the Premier to subsidise the Pacific cable and mail service, THE “FREEMAN’S JOURNAL,” After three days’ bitter wrangling, the shareholders of the Freeman's Journal Company supported Mr Sex ton against Messrs Healy and Dillon, who lost their seats on the directorate. A FREE SILVER BILL. WASHINGTON, March 29. Senator Stewart has introduced a Bill providing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver. A HORRIBLE CRIME. March 30. A mob in Texas placed an innocent negress accused of murder in a spiked barrel and, after closing the ends, rolled her down hill till she died. MEDICAL CONGRESS. BOMB, March 30. The King of Italy opened the Medical Congress yesterday. The ceremony was of a brilliant character. THE 'FRENCH IN AFRICA. PAEIS, March 29. News has been received that the French troops have defeated the Tuaregs in Timbuctoo. The machine guns were used with deadly effect. The rising is now quelled. The French Administrator of the Ivory coast, Seaegambia, has been killed in a conflict with the Natives. PLOT AGAINST THE QUEEN. The French Press reports that a plot was discovered to wreck Queen Victoria’s train daring her recent journey to Florence. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. BERLIN, March 39. Herr Behel says that the German brethren will support the claims of the Austrian Socialists for universal suffrage. THE POPE AND TH@ POLES. BOMB, March 28. The Emperors of Germany and Austria have thanked the Pope for his encyclical letter to the Poles. THE TWO EMPERORS, VIENNA, March 29. Von Caprivi and Shouvaloff will attend the interview between the Emperors of Germany and Austria on board a yacht in the Adriatic. The Emperors of Austria and Germany had a cordial meeting at Abbazia, on the Adriatic. The monarcbs twice exchanged embraces in the presence of dense crowds.