BRITISH & FOREIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10186, 21 October 1904, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN

Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright LONDON, October 20. i-ii° s€sfc5 €sfcr °y €TS B °xer and Ardent collided off the Moroccan coast on the 18th. Both were damaged! and. reached Gibraltar. During the manoeuvr»s ab Gibraltar yesterday a ferry boat, colliding with the destroyer Dragon, smashed the latter, bows. Lord Curzon is returning to India at tne end oi November. The Ameer proposes to send his eldest son to Inayatulla to meet Lord Curzon. and the Ameer receives him at Cabul. (Received October 21, 8.42 a.m.) , LONDON, October 20. ' Lord Carnngton, speaking at Ckvskton, said the proposed colonial conference was a mere effort to cover Mr Chamberlain's failure The Liberals did not object to the conference, but objected to enter with their hand* tied, pledged to a cruel proposal to tax food. Lord Stanley, m a speeoh at Bolton, said he would nob support a food tax until he was aware of the benefits that Britain would secure. He favored a colonial conference. _i A \^' Mahaff y» resident Magistrate of the Western Division of the Solomon Islands, has been appointed Colonial Secretary and Receiver-General of Fiji. (Received! October 21, 8.42 a.m.) LONDON, October 20. Under the will of Mr William Mackinnon. an East Indian merchant, of Campbelltown, Argyllshire, the Free Church of Scotland will ultimately inherit £170,000 The King entertains' at lunch at Buckingham Palace the officers of the American squadron at present at Gravesend. PARIS, October 20. M. Combecf' Income Tax Bill gives fathers of families reductions m proportion «ri to the number of their children,. 1| CAPETOWN, October 20. A new disease has broken out at Stellensboch vineyards, which. 'is likely to reduce the vintage to a quarter, and seriously threatens the vineyards of the whole colony. BOMBAY. October 20. | . General Mac Donald's la6t column at Phari was snow-bound after crossing the Taing Pass, where the snow is now far worse.