BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11555, 16 April 1898, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press. Association—By Electric TelegraphCopyright. RHODESIA. LONDON, April 14,

The shareholders in the British South Africa Chartered Company propose the appointment of Messrs Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit and Maguire to the directorate of the company. The report of the Chartered Company presented at a meeting of shareholders, speaks hopefully of the future of Rhodesia, and states that it is proposed to borrow a million and. a half. AN INHERITANCE. LONDON, April 14.

By’the death of Captain Urquhart, who was killed in the recent battle in the Sondan, Mr H. H. Champion, the well-known social advocate of Melbourne, inherits an estate worth £7OOO a year. THE AUSTRALIAN OYERLAND LINE. The Hon Thomas Playford, AgentGeneral of South Australia, is ordering copper wire to duplicate the overland telegraph line, between Adelaide and Port Darwin. EXILED TO SIBERIA. April 15. The limes St Petersburg correspondent wires that a Privy Councillor, M. Peronoff and his daughter have been sentenced to exile in Siberia for life for selling to Austrian agents military documents relating to the defences of Russia. Live others, mostly officials, received lesser sentences. THE QUEEN. PARIS, April 14, President Faure.viaited the Queen at Cimiez, near Nice, to-day. _ The Prince of Wales afterwards visited the. President. GERMAN IMPORTS. BERLIN, April 14. The German Press declares that Germany will not grant favoured nation treatment to the British colonies unless German imports are admitted on the same terms as British, THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN. CAIRO, April 15. General Kitchener’s staff has arrived at Wady Haifa. THE BOMBAY RIOTS. CALCUTTA, April 15.

Four Moslems concerned in the Bombay plague riots have been sentenced to transportation for life, and oneihas bee n sentenced to death.