BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2720, 2 May 1906, Page 53

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, April 24. Reuter's Shanghai correspondent report* that the Anglo-Thibetan Treaty has been signed at Peking. Britain and Thibet,-.-* recognise China's Thißetan protectorate, and Britain undertakes not to interfere in- the country's internal affairs 'unless others interfere. China, on the other hand, agrees to open some of the Tbibfitan v markets to Indian trade, to construct telegraph lines in Thibet, to give Britain • preference as regards railway concessions, and to pay 2,400,000 taels (about £340,000) as an indemnity for the cost of Colonel Younghusband's expedition.

Mr John Redmond, speaking at Kilheely, threatened to coerce the Government unless Ireland was administered more_ in accordance with Irish ideas-. He especially emphasised the rescinding of the' resolution regarding evicted tenants. MABRID, April 24. The Belgian training-ship Comte de Smet. de Mayer, of 2204 tons, built, in 1904, with 30 Cadets aboard, bound for Australia, foundered in a gale in the Bay of Biscay. The captain and 33 others were drowned. Twenty were saved, and are proceeding to Hamburg aboard the French barque Dunkerque. Information regarding the disaster was refused.

BELGRADE, April 23.

The Servian regicides are plotting to dethrone King Peter in favour of the Crown Prince, who sides with their Government. They have placed 500 provincial gendarmes round the palace and military depots, AprU' 24. It is announced unofficially in Belgrade, that Colonel Maslin and four other reg^' cides have retired at their own request.- '

We have received Stone's Otago and Soutli land ABC Guide for May.