BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12999, 15 December 1902, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. A FRAUDULENT SOLICITOR. LONDON, Dec. 12. Robert Harding Milward, a lending soli, citor of Birmingham and London, has been sentenced to six years’ penal servitude for appropriating £50,000 of trust moneys. THE SUGAR BOUNTIES. In the House of Commons Mr Balfour admitted that the Crown Law Officers in 1880 considered' countervailing duties on bounty-fed sugar , contrary to the mostfavoured nation clause of the existing treaties. He would not admit the relevance between the discussion of the ..question as it exists and the opinion expressed in 1880. ' A TREATY WITH ABYSSINIA. A treaty between Britain and Abyssinia was entered into in June last, defining the boundaries of the British Soudan. Abyssinia grants Great Britain the right to construct tho Soudan-Uganda Railway through Abyssinia, and also to lease territory near Itang Baro River as a commer-cial-station. THE P. AND O. COMPANY. (Eeceievd Dec. 15, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 14. At a meeting of the Peninsula find Oriental Company, Sir Thomas Sutherland, the chairman, said that when the hew steamer was ready, mail boats would start from Tilbury, while cargo boats would leave the Albert Docks. Outward fares to India will be reduced by 16 per cent in January. THE COUNTESS OP DUDLEY. The Oountcss of Dudley is improving. A CHARGE OF FRAUD. PARIS, Dec. 12. Messrs Hutt Brothers and De Cooman, the organisers of the Cooman Bank of Brussels and Paris, have been arrested in connection with “Bucket Shop ’’frauds. Thenliabilities are two millions sterling in France and one million an Belgium.