BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9099, 18 March 1901, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

{Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyrigth— United Press Association.) LONDON, March 16. The Victorian loan is m good demand at 18 per cent, premium . The American Steel Trust has purchased the American rights of Memplian Ferguson's patent process of iron pipemaking. Mr Ferguson is a well-known I Australian engineer, and has the pipe contract for tne Coolgardie water supply scheme LONDON. March 17. ,Mr Mulock, Postmaster-General of Oanada, .is a. passenger by the Himalaya to Australia. Sixty-five British warships have been fitted "with Belleville boilers. WASHINGTON, March 17. The Foreign Relations Committee reported against the American Senate's amendments defining the relations with Cuba. OTTAWA. March 16. The Hon. Mi- Mulock, the Canadian Postmaster-General, has been authorised to confer during his visit m connection with the opening of the Federal Parliament with the Commonwealth Government m reference to an intercolonial inter-Imperial tariff. ST. PETERSBURG, March 16. A student amongst a group of petitioners who waited upon Count Bogolepoff, Russian Minister of Education, at St. Petersburg, shot Bogolepofi, who succumbed yesterday, after suffering a, week. NEW YORK, March 17. Mr Andrew Carnegie lias given a million sterling to New York libraries, and two hundred thousand to St. Louis libraries.