The Lyttelton Times. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1903.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13109, 24 April 1903, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1903.

Tho Gorman .newspapers publish -a telegram, sent 'by tlho Sultan's Albanian -bodyguard sug-ges-tir.y the murder of M. Stc-horbina, i'ho Russiam Consul at Mitrovitza,- -who was recently lulled 'by t-hej Albanians. Sir Thomas Sutherland, chair m>aiii of the Peninsular an<l Oriental Steamship Company, stoles that thoyßagdad' Railway •will never ~beai> '''he company's thirteen-day service to Bombay. ' / Mr Ritchie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has submitted 1 to the House of Commons 'a rsturn showing- that, after gettii-g tho local expenditure baianco, England's revenue available for Imperial expenditure is J 857,610,000, Scotland's £10,938,000, and Ireland's £2,570,000. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce 'has formed a committee cf one hundred merchants to promote a permanent arbitration treaty 'between Britain and France. As Melilla is dependent on tho Moorish tribesmen, for supplies, Spain has ordered tho withdrawal of the Sultan's Customs official's from the (own. The Pretender will organise a Customs outside. The German 'newspapers are increasingly* irritated at the Canadian .surcharge oni German goods, arjd [threaten retaliation -with, a 50 per cent tax on Canada's cora exports to Germany. Boasts also are made that Germany-■ can evade /the surtax by exporting through German middlemen- residing in England.