BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8415, 14 January 1899, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Electric Telegraph— Copyright— United I'ress Association.) LONDON. Jan. 13. The Thames Ironworks Company luve obtained a contract to construct a firstclass British battleship. Mr Rothschild's bequest to the British Museum is worth £300,000. Sir Julian Paunccfotc's term of office as British Ambassador at Washington has been extended for a year in order to complete negotiations over the Nicaragua Canal. A fierce south-west gale is raging in the United Kingdom, doing much damage. Several trains have been blown off the lines. The Channel steam services have had to be suspended. BERLIN, Jan-. 13. General Von Gossler, Prussian Minister of War, in introducing the Army Bill, said the Czar's disarmament, scheme convinced Germany that she had nothing to fear from Russia. Nowhere, however, had there been any evidence of the cessation of war preparations. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 13. The Russian Budget allots thirty-four million roubles for naval construction. PRETORIA, Jan. 13. The field cornet who made himself conspicuous at Johannesburg by the arrest of British colored subjects has been acquitted and reinstated in his official position.