BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11462, 28 December 1897, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United,* ress Association—By Electric Telegraph—

Copyright. Received Dec. 27, 9.50 a.m. SUGAR BOUNTIES. LONDON, Dec. 26.

The Anti-Sugar Bounty League, representing the sugar-refining industry of Great Britain and the colonies, waited on the Government urging it ta-assist in the abolition of duties.

Received Dec. 28,12.15 a.m. OBITUARY,

Dec. 27.

MrOharlea Harrison, Liberal member for Plymouth, is dead, aetat sixtytwo.

REVOLTING TRIBES. CAPE TOWN, Deo. 26,

Two tribes have revolted against the Portuguese at Mossamedes, a seaport of West Africa. Twenty Portuguese were killed. FAMINE IN ALGERIA.

PARIS, Dec. 26.

The’-Governor of Algeria is pressing the Chamber oj>-S'SpircT&a to allot a a- million and a quarter francs towards the. relief of the famine in Algeria. SUBSIDISED STEAMERS.

BERLIN, Deo. 26. Germany is arranging to subsidise new-steamship lines to India.

CRETE. ATHENS, Dec. 26.

The- Cretan Assembly has published a protest against the injustice of the tribute it has been called upon to pay Turkey.

POLITICS IN JAPAN. Received Dec. 28,12.15 a.m. TOKIO, Dec. 27. The Japanese Diet has been dissolved in order to divert-a vote of no confidence in the Government. The Mikado, in his speech at the opening of the Japanese Diet, said that the relations with all the Powers were of a friendly character. THE NIGER QUESTION. PARIS, Dec. 27. Le Matin states that the British position at Boussa blocks the settlement of the West Africa question, and advises France to yield there in order*to keep a free hand in China.