BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9838, 3 September 1903, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

ttltcjrio Telegraph— Copyright -United Pross Association. LONDON, Sept. 2. The ship Milton Park, 165 days out from Liverpool J;o Fremantle, is supposed to. have been lost. A floating exhibition of British manufactures starts to visit all the colonies early next y-iar, representatives of nearly - 100 firms accompanying it. Several;' engineering firms in Belfast have notified a 5 per centV reduction' in wages, to be enforced in. October, owing to keenness of competition as regards machinery for export. The reduction will affect 3000 employees. Commenting upon the Duke of Devonshire's emphatic denial of a rumor published in the Westminster Gazette that he intended resigning, the Standard says: It was what everybody knowing his character and career would have expected from a statesman enjoying a large measure of national reputatiou for/ steadiness and strength. - t The Standard proceeds to suggest a duty exclusively for revenue purposes ot Is 6d to 2s on foreign grain, also a revenue duty on flour. It advises Mr Chamberlain to abandon his Imperial preferential tariff, and release Unionists from a position of unendurable embarrassment. It adds : The Government might devise a curtailment of the operation oi foreign trusts and State-aided producers. (Received Sept. 3, 7.54 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 2. A meeting held at West Birmingham approved of Mr Chamberlain's fiscal proposals, and urged the imposition of a revenue duty on imports of foreign manufacture. Italy has refused Germany's claim of preference over Great Britain as regards the payment of Venezuelan claims, and she should stand on an equality. Tha Swiss and Danish arbitrators having declined to act, the Czar nominated Austrian and Portuguese instead. Batting against Hampshire Braund made 134. «■,'■• The Highland railway is adopting motor carriages for lighter traffic,' thereby effecting an enormous saving. Knight, in his second innings against Surrey, scored 91 not put. He carried his bat throughout the iriinings. (Received Sept. 3, 10.40 a.m.) A fire at Limehouse Basin, West India Docks, destroyed £50,000 worth of walnut, teak and mahogany timber. A steam collier ran down a Yarmouth pleasure yacht. Three of the crew and three passengers were drowned. Six were saved. CAPETOWN, Sept. 2. Tlie Cape Parliament has been prorogued to the 15tli, when the Assembly, or, perhaps both Houses, will be djssolved. ".-.■'■ ..BERLIN, Sept, 2. Germany's final deficit 'for 1902 consisted of 22 million marks ordinary 'revenue, and 9 million, marks excess of expenditure over the estimates. : (Received Sept. 3, 7.54 a.m.) VIENNA, Sept. 2. At a luncheon at the British Embassy in King Edward's honor, the Emperor' Joseph, responding to the. toast of his health, said he was proud of the high distinction that had been conferred upon him, binding him still closer to the gallant British- army. .... . (Received Sept; 3,. 9 a.m.) ROME, Sept. 2. The Pope is dismissing many superfluous functionaries. He detests the surveillance of the Swiss Guards. . PEKIN, Sept. 2. A Russian company at Tientsin chartered the Ameficati-owned and British registered steamer Stanley Dollar to fetch lumber from Yongampho." A ' Japanese gunboat prevented the steamer entering the harbor on the ground that it was not an open port. ' , i