BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXI, Issue 13343, 23 January 1904, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ‘TUBERCULOSIS. LONDON, January 21. A West End consumption specialist, commenting on the Victorian Board of Health’s proposals, admits that isolation is a useful precaution at certain periods of the disease, but unnecessary at tho initial stages. AN APPEAL. The Council of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has memorialised Mr! Lyttelton against New Zealand, Cape Colony and Natal levying duties on uie whole capital of incorporated companies which employ only a small proportion of their capital in .the colony. The Council considers that tho policy is a great and needless hindrance to edmpanies incorporated in-Britain, and urges ■Mr Lyttelton to take steps to secure amelioration. THE AMERICAN WINTER. NEW YORK, January 21. There are eighty degrees of frost in Eastern Canada, and fifty-two at. New York. A RECONCILIATION. (Received January 23, 1.14 a.m.) LONDON, January 22‘. The. “ Daily Mail ” states that Lord Wimborrie will give the Duke of Devonshire and tho Liberal leaders a banquet at his residence in London, early in February, marking the reconciliation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Lord Rosebery, and the alliance of Unionist freetraders with tho Radicals, on the basis of leaving Homo Rifle in the back ground.