BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9645, 21 January 1903, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

(Electric Telegraph— Copyright— United Press ' Association. LONDON, Jan. 19. Censors at Pekin boldly criticised the Dowager's extravagance, and suggested her resignation. M. Blowite succumbed to, appendicitis. Mr Hanbury introduces an Adulterated Butter Bill before Easter. Reuter's Agency states that at Constantinople a chemist's assistant named Hotckikan, belonging to Ezeroum, supposed to be a revolutionary emjssaiy, shot Monsignor Ormanian, an Armenian Patriarch, m the shoulder during mass. . (Received January 21, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 'January 20. Obituary: Mr Quintoa Hogg, the founder of the London .Polytechnic, aged 57. The sentence passed m - October ou. Roche, member for Galway East, lias been reduced one half, and without hard labor. The sentence ou Reddy, member for Birr division of King's County, lias been confirmed. One thousand camels are being landed at. Obbia, m connection with, the Somaliland expedition. The recently announced displacement of the Governor of Teheran, is officially contradicted. Advices from Caracas state that the Panther was damaged and two Germans killed m an attempt to enter Maracaibo. NEW YORK, Jan. 20. A master mechanic, Christiansen, builder of the American 16-inch gun, died of overwork the day before its testing. At a great banquet at New York m Mr John Hay's honor, all the Ambassadors were present. The British Ambassador received tin enthusiastic reception, far eclipsing that of the others. Foreign and native merchants of Venezuela, subscribed ninety thousand pounds to Castro's loan. VIENNA, Jan. 20. Twenty-four civilians at Krzemysi have received sentences varying from three to fifteen months, with one day .each a. week without food, spent on a plank bed, for selling military secrets to Russia. The Reichsrath had a 54 hours' sitting owing to the obstruction, of the Czech. P ' Uty " PARIS, Jan. 19. Owing to fierce tribal fighting on the frontier of Algiers, the French Algerian cavalry is mobilising. The Chamber of Deputies has voted half a million francs to assist distressed