BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

; I.__1 .__- * -■ - (Press Assn. — By Telegraph. — Copyright, LONDON, April 13.

Mr Gladstone informed "tlie Protestant Reformation Society that King Edward's assent to Princess Enii's marriugo was unnecessary.

The Daily Telegraph's Tokio correspondent, reports that a -tariff increasing the duties oil" principal imports from 20 to 50 per ceut. pa-ssed the Japanese Diet almost without discussion.

iu reply to a toast at the Westralian reception Sir John Forrest said that "the Commonwealth ought never ' to forget what they owed to the strong arm of. England. Arrangements once satisfactorily became no .longer suitable under the changed conditions of the world. Oolonial sentiment should bo interwoven in commerce, the colonies becoming co-partners j hi the Empire. Mr Reeves wa_ present and proposed the health of the Commonwealth. » Clara Butt and Kenuelly Rumford'have been engaged for 25 concerts in Australia and New Zealand, commencing in August next year. President Castro had retired for three months to the. west. He -states that if experience shows tlus brings harmony he is willing to retire permanently. General Gozo, acting-President, forms a new Government. '■ Clive, the self-confessed murderer, was released, and ordered, to finish his military sentence. (Received April 14, 7.9 a.m.) LONDON, April 13. Both the German Imperial and Russian loans have bee*', subscribed one and a half times over. The Times' 6ays the unfavorable market is attributed to Germany's mismanagement' of foreign affairs and the restlessness of her policy. Tho British Australasian Trust and Loan Company's report shows the profits amounted to £27,191. There is carried to reserve £2000, and curried forward £11,192. NEW YORK, April 13. Maxim Gorky has arrived at New York on a mission to raise funds for revolutionary' purposes. Mark Twain, in welcoming him. stated he was confident Americans would contribute liberally, though the Russian republic had been postponed for u wliile. The United States Steel Corporation have contracted for fifty thousand tons of steel for two hundred bridges on the Seuul-Wiju railway. ' BERLIN, April 13, A German Imperial loan of thirteen millions has been covered oue and a half times. It is reported at Berlin that Prince von Bulow's illness is the result of a slight effusion of blood on tho brain, and {hat a. prolonged rest is needed. PARIS, April 13. Tho strike peril in France is complicated by the reluctance of the troops to perform police duty. A special corps of gendarmes is organising for the repression of strike disorders. Five hundred houses were burnt at Luuuprbaug iu French Indo-China. The' postmen of Paris have struck for an increase of wages and because the Government refuse to recognise their •union. Soldiers aro delivering mails. (Reoeived April 14, 7.9 u.m.) Over ten thousand English visitors reached Paris yesterday. In the French Chambor M. Dcschand said, independently of the difficulties of carrying out arrangements for a du&l regime in the New Hebrides, the agreement did not seem to make sufficient allowance for France's preponderating interests. ATHENS, April 13. ! King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and the Prince and Princess of Wales have arrived at Corfu. Prince George of Greece welcomed them, and they all proceed to Atheus. ' . ST. PETERSBURG, April 13. The Czur is willing for. the Hague;. Conference to bo postponed. ROME. April 13. The Catholic bishops of Bothurst and Armidale and 40 pilgrims presented an address and Peter's Pence to the Pope, who warmlv thanked them. *\_.