BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10494, 21 October 1905, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

♦ (Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.; LONDON, Oct. 20. Lightloot, alias Battle, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for perjury. Tlie Standard's Ottawa correspondent reports that the Government has received a British firm's offer to a run a service of steamers between Canada and New Zealand. Mr Balfour hun been presented with tlie freedom of Edinburgh. ' Sir Alfred Thomas, at Cardiff, opened a campaign to secure the inclusion of the question of Welsh disestablishment am' ongst the earliest Liberal measures. Fifty thousand people applied for admission to Westminster Abbey on the occasion of the late Sir Htfnry Irving'? funeral. Only 1200 applications were allotted. ' (Received October 21, 8.36 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 20. The Westminster Gazette, referring to the Commonwealth following Canada's lead in the matter of Home Rule, asked how would Mr Chamberlain like the cry that every vote for union was a vote against the colonies. Perhaps Australia would now take steps to include Irish Home Rule in the agenda of the Colonial Conference. The Parisian municipal representative--inspected the London County Council's workmen's hotel at Deptford and partook of an excellent sixpenny luncheon. There -is no such institution in Paris. One hundred and sixty-five accidents, involving 64 death, liave occurred in the Alps during the present touring season. WASHINGTON, Oct, 20 President Roosevelt, spoaking at Raleigh, opposed State ownership of railways. He favored the Government exercising supervision and regulatory rights for .securing fair and just trcatment-to all shippers. The captors of Captain Crowtlier and Lieutenant Hatton demand a large in demuity and an appointment to the go vcrnorship of the frontier of Cemta, bepides tlie release of Valiente. PARIS, Oct. 20. , M. Lancssan created a sensation by declaring that the fortresses on the. eastern frontier of France are unable to resist the 150 powerful guns Germany possesses, and howitzers throwing projectiles weighing 40 kilogramuuv-* filled with powerful explosives. He declares that Fiance possc.s**es no similar artillery. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct, 20.. Tlie Czars manifesto proclaiming peace says: "God caused the Fatherland to suffer soto trials and blows in the late sanguinary war, affording manifest proofs of the bravery and courage of the glorious troops iii an obstinate struggle against; a brave and mighty enemy. Now that tlie painful war is over, the Eastern Empire, will be developed in peace and good neighborljnes-. with Japan, our friend." The Czar asks for tlie prayers of his aiibjects that God bless his great labors in conjunction with the men elected by the people for the development of the prosperity of Russia. Count de Witte, speaking before M. Solsky's Commission, urged immediate legislation to ensure liberty of the person, press, conscience and meeting, also the necessitv for the Government to cooperate with tiie moderate elements of MOROCCO, October 20. Robbers stole despatches from French and German couriers between Fez and Tangier. BERLIN, October 20. The Vossische Zeitung protests against the insults levelled in Germau newspapers against King Edward, and expresses a belief tluit an overwhelming majority of Germans repudiate the insults.