BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2923, 23 March 1910, Page 25

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, March 14. Lord Middleton, on behalf of the Moderates, proposed to hold a conference with the Progressives with tbs object of ridding the London County Council of party government. The Progressives have declined to hold a conference, and the Moderates consequently decided to select all the 10 aldermen. • March 15. Mr M'Kenna said that the Admiralty intended to make greater use of oil as fuel, and the Admiralty Board had taken steps to secure supplies from independent sources. Mr Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, has announced that a regulation will be introduced permitting a mitigation of the treatment of suffragettes in prison. Sir .James Reid, Physician-in-Or dinary to Edward VII, believes that the Kingcaught a slight cold during his journey from Londoh to Biarritz, but states that % there is no fever.' His Majesty,, as a precaution, remained indoors yesterday. The Archbishop of Cork has appointed the Rev. A. D. Tapper a canon. The rev. gentleman intends to" devote himself to mission work, and mil sail on June 16 for New Zealand, where he will carry on a three months’ Mission of HeJn. March ' 16. There have been 40 deaths from cholera diailv .in Batavia. •The Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s boats saved 644 lives and 43 ‘ vessels in 1909. John White was sentenced to penal servitude for life at Birmingham for causing his mother’s death-by trying to induce her to drink .evanide of potassium, resulting in her death .through fright. Queen Alexandra exhibited her Tassel bounds at the Manchester show, and secured two firsts, two seconds, one reserve. and two high commended?. The Advi -orv Committee of the Board of Trace includes the Hon. W. HallJones, Lords Avebury and Sfcrathoona, Sir A. Enicer, and Mr H. Birchenough. Mr Llovd-George is suffering from neuritis, and is taking a rest for a week. The aide ripen nominated for the London County Can roil hv the Moderate party „ were elected, THer include Lady St. Heifer. Mr Harold Cox, and Mr Geoffrey Drage. v March 17. r, w South Wales is arranging to exhibit the products of that State at the leading agricultural shows in the soring and summer. Mr Cogblan, the Agentgeneral, considers that such an exhibition will attract* -a. desirable class of immigrants. ■ 1r . .s Mai<ch 18. Tire Associated Chambers of Commerce, by a small maiority, recommended that a decimal system of coinage should be ma d e compulsor v. The Government -V? issuing £21.090.000 worth of 3 per cent. Exchanger bonds at 991. with a five veers’ currency. Hundreds of Jnnane.se are coming to the White Cifcv Exhibition. The trip, including fares and hM&I cxrvuses in London for three weeks, will cost only £IOO. en’s RnciaT and Political Union col ect“d; -CM .686 dirring +K& vear. Thev held 20.00'' meetings. 204 women were arrested 163 were • mini son ed and of 100 hnrger-etril-p-'c! 36 were forcibW fed. ■ *2??. G. Reid has accented Mr Duncan A Iv.-i.-’q gift tr> t.h.p Comm on wealth of GwbhW’a “ Our Golden Argosies.” which was . exhibited in the Duval 4 cade-mv last year. The* nieture will nose.iblv b° bpng in the Commonwealth House of Parlia- ; ment. March 20. Tire firms of Armstrong 'EWickb T.Htersj- Bon, and Maxim /BheflfWdl. and John ’’Brown and- Co. (Glasgow! have secured' contracts for two Turkish battleshins and. two cruisers, at a cost of £5.090,000. Cantain James Henivv Edward Holford has been committed for trial at the Qld Ba.ilev on a charge of obtaining tiaras and necklaces of diamonds to the value , of several thousand pounds from various

i j'jewellers in the city and then pawning | them. ; % March 21. ! Mr Patrick Murphy, of iSiewry, has willed £20,000 to charitable institutions, ' and the residue oiVhis ©state of £103,450 to the Urban Council of Newry to pay the municipal debt BRUS&ELS, March 16. A Belgian court awarded £4OO damages to a man who was blinded by a hatpin in a tramcar. The lady who wore the hat and. the tramcar company were ordered to pay half each. BERLIN, March 17,. A telegram to the Daily Express states that the Kaiser's exiled cousin Frederick, son of the late Duke Albrecht, who was Regent of Brunswick, has become a monk, and has given up his fortune of £200,000 '• to the Roman Catholic-Church in. Italy. " ST. PETERSBURG, March 13. The Senate rejected the appeal of six schoolboys and girls; aged 16 and 17, belonging to the town of Possessony, and sent the whole of them to exile in Siberia taking part in the organisation of a revolutionary association in ISO 7. March 20. Russia, arid Austra have exchanged verbal •issurances of common recognition of statiis quo in the Balkare,' and the ' resumption of cordial relations, which ■ were interrupted by the Austrian annexation of Bosnia, and Herzegovina. March 16. The Bouse of Representatives' Committee on Naval Affairs haa approved of the appropriation of half a million dollars ' to raise the wreck of the battleship Maid of Havana. The wreck is reported to be a menace ' to navigation. > ' NEW YORK", March 16. Senator Aldrich has introduced- a bill in the 'Senate to establish a commission ! to inquire into the Government's business t methods, with a view to reducing the > expenditure in various departments. Senator Aldrich asserts that he could save I £60,000,000 per annum. ' March 17. The American- Steel Trust reports an increase of £8,000,000 in its net earnings L or 1909 compared with those of 1908. March 18. 1 Owing to fines the American Sugar Trust's operations in 1909 showed a cte- . ficit of £28,000, despite a record year's business. March 20. Mr Otto Kahn, of this city, has bought ' Franz Hall's painting of himself and > family for £IOO,OOO. He outbid Mr ' Pierpont Morgan, who offered £BO,OOO. | OTTAWA, March 15. In the Dominion House of Commons .Sir F. Borden (Minister of Defence) said that General French's visit to Canada was only semi-official, and had no special reference to mobilisation. He would, however, be (riven, every facility . to inspect the Militia. ( March 16. The Canadian Bouse of Representatives has just held a 25 hours' sitting. - The Opposition refused to pass the St. Lawrence Power Transmission Company's ' i Bill on the ground that it was calculated , !o exploit the water power in the river j tor the benefit of United States speculators. March 20. Canada is appointing « commercial . agent in Germany. '* The Canadian papers report that there j has been a great influx of commercial men ; j and thousands of circulars and letters 1 from German manufacturers.