BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11537, 25 March 1898, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Frees Association— By Electric TelegraphCopyright. deceived March 24. 9.30 a,m. AFEIOAN INTEEESTS. LONDON, March 23, Lord, Selborne said that Great Britain would leave the occupation of Boussa and Nikki to the Anglo-French Delimitation Commission now sitting in Paris for the purpose of determining the ownership of the disputed territory. THE MATAIJEA. The steamer Mataura, which went ashore at the entrance to the Straits of Magellan, is now broken into halves. March 24 % The Mataura’s salvaged wool will cost three-halfpence per lb for reloading and storage charges. HAWAII. In the House of Commons, the Hon G. N. Curzon, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, denied the charges made by the committee of the United States Senate in reference to British attitude in Hawaii. A DEEELICT. NEW YORK, March 23. The barque Helen Alty, hound from San Francisco to Klondyke, is a derelict. She was found floating bottom upwards off Point Bonita. Forty passengers and the crew are supposed to be drowned. CANADIAN LOYALTY.

OTTAWA, March 23.

The Toronto Naval League is urging Canada to defray the cost p£ two sea-going cruisers on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, for the purpose of training Canadians for the Eoyal Naval Keserve.