BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11887, 10 May 1899, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

.United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE DUKE OF YORK. LONDON, May 8. The Duke of York is suffering from a slight chill, but is improving. , The Prince of Wales has visited- him daily since Friday. SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS. Archbishops, Bishops, Peers, Commoners and leading Non-Conformists are uniting in a protest against the Sunday editions of the London “Daily Telegraph” arid “Daily Mail,” which have beert brought out as seven days’ papers. THE INDIAN SUGAR DUTIES. LONDON, May 9. A Blue Book, which -has. just been published, .shows that Mr Chamberlain prompted the adoption of ‘ Countervailing dirties in Ind a, on behalf of the sugar .industry iu Mcmritius. AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES IN IRELAND. A Bill, providing for the creation of a Department of Agriculture, Industries and Technical Instruction for Ireland, at a cost of £160,000 per •- annum, has been read a first time in the House of Commons. A SENSATIONAL PLIGHT. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 9. Missak Effendi, Turkish Minister at The Hague, has fled to Paris, being indignant because he was not appointed the representative of Turkey at tho Peace , Conference,’ the reason for the slight being that he is an - Armenian. The Porte is dismayed at the action, fearing that Missak will join the revolutionaries. TROOPS MASSACRED BY INDIANS. NEW YORE, May 8. Indians massacred 120 Bolivian troops sent’ to quell a rising amongst them.