BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, May 7.

Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 49

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, May 7.

The Coldstream Guards, using the new" rifle, won the Daily Telegraph's Dewar Cup at Bisley, easily Beating the Volunteers using the old Lee-Metford. The German steamer Sourabaya, engaged in gun-running at Vladivostock during the late war, was found encased in ice ofl Nikolaiefsk Island. The crew were frozefl " to death. 1 May 8. The Emir of Hadeja resenting British administration, Colonel Coles sent an expedition from Kano (West "Africa) and five hours' fighting took place in the streets of Hadeja. The expedition captured the Emir, and there were no European casualties. In the House of Commons' Mr Winston Churchill stated that the Colonial Conference would be entitled to discuss* fiscal ' preference or any other matter of Imperial interest. • " - . ~> ' ?N? N | • PARIS, Ma/ 8. • •' I In the .course, of the French elections f there have been 36 Ministerial gains &n<L '11 losses, The populace is troublesome.*" j MOROCCO, May 7. ~ The Moorish Government advises ihe Sultan to sign the Algeciras Convention. MACASSAR, May 7. The Dutch trcops' attacked the nativd stronghold at Bontoe, in the Celebes, but wei'e repulstd, 12 being 'killed and 24 injuredr