BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10574, 27 January 1906, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(I'retw Assn. — by Telegraph— Copyright.)

LONDON, January 26. Luid Elgin retains a white lurco of artillery and eugiuteis m Jamaica, permanently stations a fast cruiser m the West Indies, and sends a cruiser squadron there on an annual visit.

Mr Jolrn Burns, at tho instigation of the Buttersea Borough, engaged 2000 un. employed on road-iuatung.

Air Morcing, a Taniiite, candidate for Gainsborough, sent three Liberal and tnvee Conservative workers to study the labor conditions of Germany. They are Uhuniuious as to the necessity of a change, some advocating foreign goods. All agree us to the absence of unemployed m Germany ; the unskilled woriier is belter off there thau m England, and there is a . greater demand for skilled labor. The deputation* are uo longer Freetraders on the existing basis. VANCOUVER, January 26. Twenty more of those who were on the wrecked Vulencia have been rescued ov a raft.

(Received January 27, 10.38 a.m.) The Valincia s dead total 107. CAPETO WN, January 26. Dr. Jameson, speaking at a banquet at Capetown, said representative government would bo granoejd the TVansvaal m a few days, and a responsible institution, would be m full swing m August. The Orange Colony would receive a similar constitution simultaneously.

TEHERAN, January 26. Two hundred and fifty deaths from plague havo occurred at Seistan. NEW YORK, January 26. A maniac at St. Louis is still at largo, after wounding fourteen women with a double edged knife. PARIS, January 26. Juluzot has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for .misappropriating tho Printemps Savings Bank funds. BERLIN, January 26. In the Prussian Diet Prince von Bulow appealed to the bourgoisc to assist the Government to combat revolutionary social democracy.

- WASHINGTON, Jamiaiy 26. The House, by 194 to 150 adopted a Bill admitting Arizona (New Mexico) and Oklahoma as two new States.

ROME, January '26. . The first passeugcr train has passed through the Simplon tunnel.