HOME AND ABROAD.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1415, 24 November 1904, Page 3

HOME AND ABROAD.

President Roosevelt unveiled at the War College, Washington, a statue of Frederick the Great, presented by the Kaiser as a mark of friendship to the Americans. President Roosevelt eulogised the Kaiser as a man who markedly added lustre ito a great house and a great name; who made it clear that he desired peace and friendship with other nations. President Roosevelt hoped America and Germany would be knit in the 'ties oE heartiest friendship and goodwill. Italy had concluded an arbitration treaty with the United States. The trial of the first 8.l submarine at Barrow-in-Furness was a neat success, and the Admiralty is ordering many additional vessels of the same type. O'Donovan Rossa landed at. Cork on his return from America and was given a great welcome. Mr Asquith, speaking at Cambridge, declared that the colonies only favored preference where it was consistent with complete and undisturbed protection of their native industries. Such preference was not worth the paper it was written on. In reply to a question Premier Reid, in the Commonwealth Parlianv-nt, stated that he had not yet been able to select the members of the Tariff Commission and, unless he received more suitable names than those so far submitted, it would be some time beforo he was able to announce its composition. The secretary of the Sydney -Master Bakers' Association, writing to the Press with reference to the New Zealand Labor Department,, quest ion- | ing Mr McCarthy's right or authority : to represent New Zealand at the conference, publishes a letter from Mr Kellow, prcsideut of the New Zealand Association, accrediting Mr McCarthy to explain to the conference the united efforts of New Zealand for the benefit of the trade. | Systematic denunciation of the French Army has ended. 31. Bcrtciiix, the new Minister of War, proposes the promotion of officers in accordance with their service records. The salo of the British and Foreign Bible Society's Bibles has been stopped at Uskub, in Turkey, on the ground that tho low price amounts to Christian propagandism. Tho British Embassy insists on the continuance of the sale. A St. Petersburg despatch stales that the official Congress of Zemstovs (local elective assemblies) has forbidden delegates to privately discuss their relations with the Minister of the Interior. Other reforms havo been submitted to the Government. The list embraces a number of urgent reforms. Owing to religious differences 1-e----tween the French Government and the Vatican, 25,000 French propose to emigrato to Canada within two years and fiOOO proceed to British Columbia The Namisa Islands and the islands north of Grand Sangir, in the Eastern Archipelago, have been devastated by a high tide caused by a hurricane and thirty persons drowned. A -~!atavian cablegram states that tho Talant Islands have also been devastated and that thirty thousand arc homeless.