BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11225, 24 March 1897, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[isr ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH - COPTEIGBT.J [Pee Peess Association.! THE COSTA EICA PACKET CASE. LONDON, March 22, Lord Salisbury has received from the Netherlands Government £11,082 in payment of the award in the Costa Eica Packet case. The money has been handed to Sir Saul Samuel for transmission to Sydney. QUEENSLAND. Mr Hogan, M.P. for Tipperary, in a letter to the Times, states that if a Bill to enable Central and Northern Queensland to separate does not permit them to join the Eederal Union he will move the insertion of a clause to allow them to do so. AUSTEALIAN BEANDY. The Asylums Committee of the London County Council has placed Australian brandy on its tender-list in the same catagory as Martel’s and Hennessy’s. THE ITALIAN ELECTIONS. ROME, March 22, The Parliamentary elections resulted in a great victory for the Government. THE G-EEMAN NAVY. BERLIN, March 22. Herr Bachern, speaking on behalf of the clerical party in the Eeichstag, said that it was the chief duty of the Chamber to grapple with domestic and social questions. The fleet was adequate for the preservation of peace, and the attempt to erect a German hegemony in Europe would not bo justified. A CENTENAEY CELEBRATION, The centenary of the birth of William the Great is being celebrated throughout Germany with great enthusiasm.