BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8413, 12 January 1899, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Electric Tolegraph-Copyrlght-UDited Press Association.) LONDON, Jas. 11. A Reuter's despatch from Ottawa says it is untrue that Canada has offered to contribute to the Pacific cable equally with Great Britain. It is reported in official circles that Mr Chamberlain has disallowed the concessions granted to Mr Lowles in connection with the New Guinea land syndicate. The arbitrator appointed to deal with a dispute over the expulsion of lien Tillet from Belgium has decided in favor of Belgium. The British Government have asked the Vatican not to send missionaries to the Soudan until matters are organised there. Arrangements are being made with London importers to exhibit Australian wool at the Paris Inhibition. The Colonial Committee, and a number of importers of refrigerated produce, are disappointed that theAustraliancolouiesarenotpaitieipating in the establishment of a colonial restaurant at the Exhibition. (Received Jan. 12, 9 a.m.) Later details of the capture .of the Kalembari garrison on the Congo show that fourteen whites and two cannon were captured by theßatelas tribesmen, Eight hundred native defenders of the garrison deserted. (Received Jan. 12, 9.15 a.m.) Mr Spencer Walpole, Secretary of the British Post Office, retires on a pension. Benjamin Pickard, president of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, addressing a conference of the Federation, said the Workmen's Compensation Act had been fruitful of litigation and illfeeling. It must be amended. A number of free labor employes at Wapping struck against the imposition of terms below those received by Unionist employes. BERLIN, Jan. 11. The editor of the Socialist newspaper Magdeburg has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for publishing a skit which was interpreted as an insult to the Kaiser's second son. German newspapers disclaim any political intentions at Tonira. PRETORIA, Jan. 11. The editor of the Rand Post has been arrested on a charge of slandering the acting British agent at Pretoria. (Received Jan. 12, 9 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Jan. 11. An expedition in search of Andree is being organised here. (Received Jan. 12, 1.20 p.m.) CALCUTTA, Jan. .11. The plague is again increasing in Bombay Presidency, the average number of deaths having increased from 894 to 1000 weekly.