BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9098, 16 March 1901, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Electrio Telegraph— Copjrrigth— United Press Association.) LONDON, Alarch 15. The damage by fire aboard the P. and O. steamer Syria is now estimated at £30,000. « Tenders for tbe Victorian loan close on the 22nd. It is generally considered that the bond-holders have been treated generously. The Daily Telegraph says the loan looks attractive. In the House of Commons, Sir H. Uampbell-Bannernian and Sir William Harcourt condemned the army re-organi-sation scheme as unnecessarily aggressive, and suggestive of coming conscription. Air Balfour denied that there was. wanton aggression, and said it was imperative to be ready to defend the Empire and to comply with treaty obligations. Air Carnegie, the well-known millionaire iron-founder, has given a million sterling towards tbe Superannuation Fund for the Pittsburg workmen, and has also pledged himself to spend over a million on the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg. In the House of Commons, Sir E. A. Sassoon, member for Hythe, at the instance of the Confereiu: (j of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, urged the Government to make efforts m all parts of the Empire to lay all-British cables. OTTAWA, Alarch-15. The House of Commons has approved of the proposal to make Queen Victoria's birthday a permanent holiday.* Air W. S. Fielding, Alinister of Finance, haa submitted bis budget, showing a surplus of eight million dollars for lost year over the ordinary expenditure. He estimates a surplus for the current year of over six million dollurs, and has announced that no change will -be made m the tariff.