BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9642, 17 January 1903, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN

»- (Bleotrio Telegraph— Copyright— United Press Association. LONDON, Jan. 16. Mr Balfour's improvement is well maintained. The official residence of Sir J. D. French, General Officer commanding the First Army Corps at Aldenshot, lias been destroyed by fire. Skating is being carried on, around London. Sixty British steamers have been chartered to take ooal to America. Many carry ten thousand tons each. Three committees, representative of Trade Union, organisations,' decided to call a national conference to support a Bill legalising peaceful picketing, and amendment of the law of conspiracy forbidding actions for damages against Trades Unions unless the offending member is acting with the direct sanction of the Union rules. (Received January 17, 9.17 a.m.) LONDON, January 16. The Marylebone Cricket Club has decided to instinct umpires to guage the j width of bats. Archdeacon Sinclair, of London, and others have made numerous suggestions m order to preserve the city churc.hes. . It is noticeable that the trade of the port of London is gradually moving down the Thames, leaving empty warehouses on the wharves which are likely to be used as sites for housing the workers. So far no exchange of New Year greetings between the Czar and M. Loubet lias been published. The Thames is frozen over at Marlow, the ice being an inch thick. NEW YORK, Jam. 16. Tillman, Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina, shot Gonzales, a local editor, out of revenge for criticism. Sooner than submit to Colombia's exorbitant demands the Washington authorities will adopt the Nicaraguati canal route. Owing to President Roosevelt's pressure, the Naval Gommittee of both Houses recommend the construction of three, 16,000-ton battlesliips and cruisers of 1600 tons. (Received January 17, 9.27 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 16. The conference proposed by the Kaiser to secure international law m regard to j the use of wireless telegraph is actively ' supported m the United States. Nicaragua declined to negotiate while Washitigbon is negotiating with. Colombia. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 16. Ferrid, President of the Macedonian. Reformers Commission, has replaced Said as Grand Vizier. He is supposed to be an honest, humane, energetic man. BERLIN, Jan. 16. The Reichstag is discussing a resolution urging the Government to denounce the most favored nation arrangements unless German goods are accorded full reciprocity. At Karlsruche a student named Ruff was sentenced to 3£ years' imprisorunent m a fortress for duelling and killing a fellow-student who was inexperieoLoed m the use of pistols. A banker's widow named Opp'jnheimer Colin left the, Kaiser £100,000 storling. ROME, Jan. 16. The Doge's Palace, Venice, i threatens to collapse. Obituary: Cardinal Paroccihi, the Pope's right hand mail. PARIS, Jwn. 16. Replying to an. interpellation M. Coombs, Premier, said that he would tolerate congregational institutions where the State did not provide for primary schools. The Chamber, by 313 ' to 211, approved of the Government's aUtilude. Mademoiselle Borloz, belonging to a prominent family ait Vichy, shot and nearly killed Abbe Jocquetre for not fulfilling a promise to relinquish his ecclesiastical calling and many lieav