BUITIBH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9796, 16 July 1903, Page 3

BUITIBH & FOREIGN

Eleotrio Telegraph— Copyright— United Press AsßOOistion. (Received July 16, 8.48 a.m.) ( LONDON, July 15. Mr Haldane moved, and Mt Reeves seconded, at the British Empire League, resolutions expressing an earnest hope that the Government would take fresh steps to bring the establishment of an Imperial Court of Appeal under the consideration of the Australasian and Canadian Governments, and also hopes that Mr Austen Chamberlain will accept letters posted for any part of the Empire addressed within the Commonwealth at Id per half-ounce. Th© resolutions were adopted. Ths Birmingham Post, hi what is supposed to be a semi-officially inspired article, suggests that the Government are likely to impose' a duty of 2s per quarter on wheat and per pound on meat. The Czar, who is honorary colonel of the regiment, has ftiven £500 out of £3000 required to erect a. memorial at Edinburgh to the Scot 8 Greys who fell m South Africa. The Great. Western* Railway Company carried the mails from Paddington to Plymouth, 246 miles/ m three hours five minutes 35 seconds, a record trip. A Bill to control automobiles was read a second time m the House of Lords. A license is to be imposed on. all drivers, local authorities may retain the old speed limit or modify it m agreement with the Local Government Board. Mr Chamberlain is informed that the preference whereby a Glasgow firm secured the Canadian contract amounted to €!500 on each locomotive., (Received July. 16, 9.15 a.m.) The Imperial Food Supplies Company has opened a cold store at Chesterfield,, with a storage capacity of 25,000 cubic feet. ' • Sir John Cockburn, m a letter to the Times, replying to Sir W. V. Harcourt,* asserts that the colonies have discarded false lights and doctrines and regarded a. common-sense Imperialism and power of adaption to circumstances, which may and can alone maintain Empire. ST. PETERSBURG, July 15. M. de Witte has accepted the principle of construction of a bridge spanning the Strait of Enikale, near Kertch, a length of 2625 yards* at a cost of seven million roubles. OTTAWA, July 15. M. Blair, Minister of Railways m Canada, has resigned, owing to the proposed North-west grand trunk line running parallel with the intercolonial system, and .i~e terminus being fixed "at Monaeton instead of Quebec. PARIS, July 15. The machinery used m a transformation scene at the Folies Marigny Theatre, Paris, collapsed, precipitating sixteen dancing girls into the well of the theatre, and severely injuring most of them. BERLIN, July 15. The Cologne Gazette's St. Petersburg correspondent asserts tliat at the instance of Great Britain and Japan, the Korean Government has demanded the withdrawal of Rusians from Yongampho. Russia, basing her claim on the treaty of, 1896, declines to accede. '

Remarking on the presence at the banquet .m his honor of the Rev. James Paterson, the Hon. T. K. Macdonald spoke of the rev. gentleman as "the uncrowned Bishop of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand." At a conference on morals, held m Sydney last week, some startling statements were made as to the prevalence of immorality m that city. Air G. E. Ardill stated that there were 2000 unfortunate women on the streets of Sydney, and one night recently his agents had passed 14 m ten minutes, while a policeman under a, lamp was speaking | to four young girls. On another occasion his agents had spoken to 33 girls m 22 minutes. He stated that there were 25 opium dens m Sydney, and he himself had visited 17, where he had §een Chinese, Lascars, white men, and white women. These were restaurants m the city, used as brothels, and although this was known to the police no action was taken.