BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2541, 26 November 1902, Page 20

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, November 17. A Court circular expresses the King and Queen's deep sorrow at the death of Prince Edward of Saxe-Weiniar, to whom they were sincerely attached. The New York correspondent of The Times says that American feeling towards Spain has changed extraordinarily during the past three years. The war is now regarded as an unfortunate necessity, -while many frankly regret it since the Cuban has become better known. A captured spy estimates the Mullah's los=e<s at Erego as 15 riflemen killed and 200 wounded. The spearsmen suffered heavily. November 18. The King has welcomed the King of Portugal, who is staying till the 24th. The Samoan award has been published. It is favourable to the German claims at every point. In the case Coweu v. Truth, claiming damages for alleged libel in accusing plaintiff of plundering members of the Article Club, a verdict was returned for the defendant. A Glasgow firm, in open competition, secured a contract for 30 locomotives for Japan. Virulent cholera is spreading throughout Palestine. There are many deaths. Fifty thousand horse-power and three screws are required to obtain a speed of 25 knots for the new Cunard steamers. November 19. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company have chartered the White Star Company's lonic, which tails for New Zealand in January. King Edward, the King of Portugal, and the Duke of Ai'gyll are shooting over the royal coverts at Windsor. The" Daily Telegraph states that the law officers of the Crown have deciued that Colonel Lynch must undergo trial , at the bar of the House for treason. Ihe Tichborne case is the last instance of trial at the Bar of the House. A powerful Russian squadron, proceeding to the Far East, will spend a several days' visit at Weymouth shortly, j In a case settled to-day the plaintiff has been awarded £500, and his wife £20, damages against the Brjghton Gas Company for neglecting to plug an old pipe. The parties had a narrow escape from a fate similar to that of M. Zola. Captain Pretyman, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, replying to a question, said the commander of the China squadron has reported that the steaming qualities of New Zealand coal are excellent. As stokers have grown accustomed to its use, the smoke emitted has lessened. Count Benckendorff, Russian Minister at Copenhagen, has been appointed Ambassador at London. Mr Gerald Balfour introduces a bill next year dealing with the Port of . London. ! Mr W. P. Reeves's book on "State Experiments in Australia and New Zea- j land" has been published. The Daily News says that it is a remarkable work, and hopes that the political lessons therein will have a bracing effect on the English mind. There have been severe early frosts on the Continent, and snow has fallen in Kent. German meteorologists predict the hardest winter for half a century. The lakes around Berlin and the I'iver Neva (Russia) are frozen. November 20. Sir S. B. Crossley, a member of the Hou^e of Commons, ha.s been appointed Paymaster-general, vice the Duke of Marlborough, resigned. Dr John Gillespie has been nominated moderator-elect of the Church of Scotlaud, and Professor Orr of the United Free Church. The committee of the Cobden Club has issued a memorandum protesting against the Brussels sugar convention on the ground that it establishes an international commission practically superseding the Commons' control of taxation, i The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's dividend is 6i per cent. A canal from London to Southampton, worked by electric towage, is projected. A company has been formed to seek powers to undertake the work. The Standard asserts that Englishmen from Mongolia state that the railway from the Manchurian railway to Kalgau is nearly completed. The Prince of Wales and Earl Roberts will attend Prince Edward of SaxeWeimar's funeral at Chichester. The American visible supply of wheat is 69,630,000 bushel". The statue of the late Queen Victoria, by Stoneham, has been shipped to Perth, Western Australia. Lord Brassey, addressing a Liberal meeting at Birkenhead, bade farewell to public life. Ben Viljoen has had a long audience with Mr Chamberlain. He advised the establishment of depot* at the chief centres in the Transvaal and Orange Colonies for the distribution of building materials and agricultural implements to destitute burghers instead of money. He urged a plentiful appointment of Afrikander officials, to help to restore confidence. Mr Chamhprlain ■nrnmispd

that no attempts would be made to .suppress the Dutch language. Henry Hastings Keppel, the wellknown stock jobber, has committed suicide in the London Stock Exchange lavatory, as a result of losses. The Times' Carachi correspondent emphasises the necessity of strong representations being made to Stam'boul to stop intrigues, expeditious, and organisation iii Turkish territory against Mabaroukh, of Koweyt. In the House of Commons Lord Cranbourne stated that Britain has submitted to France definite proposals to avert the unjust expulsion of British firms owing to the granting by France to the Congo concessionaires the exclusive right of trade. November 21. An Education Bill for London will be one of the leading measures next session. One hundred and fifty Volunteer officers have resigned during the month. They are unable to give the time to their duties as required by the new regulations. Sir E. Satow, British Minister to China, started for England on six months' leave of absence. Colonel Manning, accompanying Colonel Cobbe's column, passed Barao j and, inspecting the posts, proceeded to j Bohoteleh. Indian troops have replaced the Samali levies along the lines of communication. The Bombay Grenadiers, in a blockhouse, hold Lowen Sheik's Pass and the Dubbar waterhole. Two hundred native levies under Major Petrie and Captain Wortham hold a sandbag fort at Btirao. Practically a new force is proceeding to the front, as the result of the reorganisation that has taken place. A coroner's jury has returned a verdict of manslaughter against Kitty Byron. [Kitty Byron was remanded on November 11, it will be remembered, on a charge j of having stabbed a Stock Exchange clerk j in Lombard street, with whom she had latterly cohabited.] The recent smallpox epidemic cost the Metropolitan Asylums Board £500,000. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have declared a bonus of 3 per cent. The consensus of opinion is that Lord Tennyson's appointment is an excellent one, and there are many tributes to his . high personal gifts and popularity. j Tyser's steamer Marere has been i launched at Belfast. j The Admiralty Committee have requested to be supplied with a destroyer in order that they may break her in two for the purpose of testing her girder strength. ,The experiment will be made in Portsmouth. Despite an elaborate system of alarms in the shop and the nearness of a con- j stable, the premises of Mr Courlander, i jeweller, Richmond, were entered by burglars, and £4.000 worth of jewellery stolen. The Education Bill has passed through committee. November 22. Maud Beatty, formei'ly of Pollard's Opera Company, is engaged as principal boy at Drury Lane Theatre. Frederick Krnpp, the famous ironmaster of Essen, is dead. Mr Gamesby Tate, the Indian financier, is expending two millions sterling in developing iron properties at Chanderi, in Central India. Signor Marconi has confirmed the j receipt of a message from Cape Breton to Cornwall. November 23. Sir W. V. Harcourl on Monday, in the Commons, moves the rejection of the Sugar Bounties Convention. Earl Beauchamp's mansion St. Cloud, at Powick, Worcestershire, occupied by Lady Catherine Berkeley, was burned to the ground. The inmates only escaped in night attire. Some of the pictures . and furniture on the ground floor were fj.v» -i. Earl Beauchamp was a spectator , at the fire. The friendly societies are concerting measures for the prevention of tuber- ] culosis. A deputation visit the German sanatoria. Dr Hillier, member of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption, accompanies them. The Daily Telegraph states that Italy intends to prevent Italian Anarchists emigrating. The prize to be given annually under the will of the late Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, to students or inventors adjudged to have done the most during the year for the benefit of humanity, has been awarded to the Liverpool Tropical Association for their medical researches in connection with malaria. The value of the prize is £8000. The Channel Squadron is at Li&bon. The commander visited the Queen of Portugal. The French newspapers suspect that the squadron is going to Morocco. Mrs Penruddocke, wife of a "Wiltshire magistrate, was fined £50 at the Old Bailey for ill-treating and causing unnecessary suffering to a six-year-old child. The jury severely censured the husband. Berlin and Vienna newspapers 1 assert that an American Spiritualist named Phillips has remarkable influence over the Czar, who takes no important decision, even, in family life, without consultation and Phillips's psychic treatment. Tiie report has exorcised an unfavourable fiffort on the Czarina. '

November 24. The Governors of Sierra Leone andt Gambia announce that they have encouraged the natives to extensively gro\9f cotton. A Pittsburg despatch states that the* Kaiser vainly tried to induce the King and Ministry to promise neutrality in the event oi Germany defying the Monroe Doctrine by acquiring the islands of St. Thomas and seizing territory ia South America. An unconfirmed report is current that Krupp has committed suicide. It ia generally believed. tliat the cruel 'calumnies the Italian and German Socialist newspapers, alleging that Krupp led an immoral life at Capri, hastened his end. L-e instituted actions for libel against the Vorwaerts and other newspapers. Viscount Kitchener and General Maifcland had a long consultation at Adem relative to the Somaliland campaign. There is some doubt if the expedition' will immediately proceed to punish the Mullah. PARIS, November 18. Owing to protests from the Deputies for Tonquin and Cambodia, the agitation against the ratification of the FrancoSiamese Treaty is increasing in Paris* M. Delcasse, Minister of Foreign Affairs* refuses to withdraw it. November 21. A combination of financiers and engineers has been formed here to construct railways in Southern Persia. Colonel *Picquart, who figured so prominently in the Dreyfus < ise by his opposition to the army methods, has recovered 10,000 francs from M. Lejour for accusing him of treason. M. Clemenceau proposes the abolition of the monopolies enjoyed by notaries, process servers, registrars, and appraisers, compensating them to the ex- \ tent of 931,000,000 francs. | Three French cruisers are going td Tangiers. M. Lepine, Prefect of the Police mi Paris, declares that it is impossible to suppress Anarchism while England and Switzerland afford Anarchists comfortable asylums. The Figaro states that an important commercial syndicate has been formed iiio i Paris with the object of capturing Madame Humbert in connection with! the recent swindles. 'November 22. Withdrawals from the French Savings Banks to the amount of 103,000,000 francs have been effected during tha year. The cause is undiscovered. I BERLIN, November 22. Baron yon Thielmann, Minister of Finance, intimated in the Reichstag that the coming Imperial Budget would show a deficit of 150,000,000 marks. He proposes to increase the taxes on beer | and tobacco. ST. PETERSBURG, November 21.' The Czarina is living quietly in Livadia and is slowly recovering fromi her nervous depression. MADRID, November 18. The ashes of Columbus have been in* tcrred in Seville. VIENNA, November 24. Twenty-three Austrian and Hungarian; iron and steel industries have combined! for a period of ten years, with a capital of 270 million kroner. Each works separately, under the control of a central board, regulating the output and prices. ROME, November 24. The Italian steamer Bosnia was wrecked at the mouth of the Danube with 205 passengers aboard. Eighty-two were drowned. The Bosnia was a steel-bound screw steamer of 2548 tons gross (1628 -tons net), belonging to the Cie di Navigazione Generate Italiana (Beieta Riunite FlorioRubattino). She was built in 1898, and hex! port of registry is Venice. ATHENS, November 18. The safe of the. German warship Lovely, which was missing, has been found on shore intact. November 19. Kohler, the missing sailor, has beett arrested, and has confessed to the murder of the other bailor. ATHENS, November 20. It is widely reported that the Loreley'd commander declared at the outset that the murderer was no German, adding that the Germans were not Greeks. Intense indignation is felt in Greece. The newspapers publish violent articles. The students made demonstrations. The commander denies that he made such remarks. Commandant Piraens has i«sued a statement that the commander's remarks were misunderstood. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 18. A number of discharged soldiers fromi the Dardanelles surrounded the general's house clamouring for their four years? pay. The Sultan, becoming alarmed^ immediately sent £10,000. November 24. The Sultan heaped extraordinary attentions on the cadets of the Germatil training .ship Stew (sic), inviting them to dinner, addressing; them, and sending his son aboard to bid them farewell. TEHERAN, November 20. A Persian Ambassador has. been appointed at Athens. He is the first foij 2393 years. CAIRO, November 19. A ru'h-0-glycoiine magazine in Cairoy behind thc-"Cit.:dol. exploded. Eighteen

Egyptians, mostly labourers, were killed and 25 injured. MOROCCO, November 17. The pretender to the Moorish throne lias been captured. November 20. The Sultan voluntarily presented r£1000H:or £1000H:o the widow of Mr Cooper, recently murdered. WASHINGTON, November 17. Mr Root, Secretary of AVar, speaking iat the farewell banquet to M. Cambon, the French Minister, who has been transferred from Washington to Madrid, expressed the strongest esteem and admiration for Spain. November 21. President Roosevelt, in the course of a speech at Memphis (Tennessee), said .that there must be no question of politics in governing the Philippines. It .■was as impossible to "downrthe flag" there as in Alaska. Nowhere in the Orient was there anything approaching the amount of individual liberty or self-government that America had brought to the Filipino. - NEW YORK, November 18. Armour's packing plant at Jsioux City lias been burnt down. The damage is estimated at 900,000d01. November 22. Venezuela protested at the arrival of the British sloop Fantome at Cuidad Bolivar as an infringement of sovereignty. All the Powers except America declared the blockade ineffective. November 24. The New York Post states that Messrs Hay, Moody, Payne, and Root, members of the Ministry, oppose rigid anti-trust legislation, while Messrs Knox, Hitchcock, Straw, and Wilson, support President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt, addressing the "Union League Club in Philadelphia, said it was idle to assert that the Government had power to adequately supervise trusts. The right solution was certain to he found, and would be exercised without haste or recklessness. Twelve men stopped the Rock Island express to Devenport, lowa, and robbed it of 75,000 dol. BOMBAY, November 19. The Khels and Waziris are obstinately Resisting the expeditionary force. Lieutenant-colonel Tonnochy, commanding the Fourth Column is badly wounded. Reinforcements have been asked for and promised. TOKIO, November 20. Japan in 1903 will station her permanent fleet, with headquarters, at Esquimault. Vessels will visit the coast as far as Valparaiso. Another fleet will be arranged with European headquarters.