BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 49

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, August 22. Now that the Lancashire cotton strike has been averted, an effort is being made to secure the permanent regulation of wages in accordance with the state of trade. Tlie Ximea* correspondent at Capetown leports that the Supreme Court upholds the contention of the Income Tax Commissioners that the ,De Beers mine is liable to pay income tax on profits made by the London syndicate of diamond buyers. Reuter's Agency reports that the Mercantile Club, Madrid, has addressed to the Minister of Financs a report upon the reform of the Customs tariff and the lenewal of commercial treaties. The leport urges a return to the frcetrade of 1869, and condemns the protection of 1891, which is declared to have been the origin of the labour trouble and the principal cause of the loss of the Antilles and the Philippine Islands. The document has been much commented upon in the prc^s and in political circles. BERLIN, August 22. The Admiralty voted £1000 to entertain Admiral Wilson's British squadron. The municipality of Pwmemundi Nord voted J3150 for festivities. ST. PETERSBURG, August 22. The oithodox Rusf>o-Greek Church authorities here are organising a mission to \ isit the islands in the Australasian Archipcl.igo. ATHENS, August 22. After the insurgents had ■evacuated Alsipopoulo (Crete) to join the Rustika bands, Color el Urbanovilch occupied the place and demanded £80 as blood money for the death of the Russian sokli-ers. The inhabitants declined to pay on the ground that they were not responsible for the insurgents' acts. Colonel Urbanovitch then seized and sold the draught animals, and threatened to burn t7i& village if the att-ick were renew-ed. There is great indignation at Canea.