BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn. — By Telegraph. — Copyright) LONDON, 'ApriI 15. Reiser's Durban correspondent reports that merchants engaged in the Australian trade strongly lavor a direct monthly service between A r ow Zealand and South Africa with 5000 ton steamers. They declare that unless this is promptly arranged the business will pass into other channels. Tho Statist, mentioning that twenty million pounds. of Australian money recently reached London for investment, slates that, the socialistic legislation and tllio attitude of* the labor'party.and'Ministers lias disquieted property-holders. The Agents-General replied that it was true some Australian money had recently been employed in London, but it was incredible that twenty millions had been remitted. The trade returns did not show it. There was not the slightest justification for the- statement that squatters and finance companies were compelled to take less for resumed lands, than they were Avorth, the method of fixing compensation being most equitable. % , LONDON, April. 16. Admiral Fitzgerald, writing to the National Review, urges British statesmen to recogni.se colonial feeling in favor of u locally-owned and locally-controlled navy, based on broad Imperialism. He advocates the immediate remission of money contributions wi^hqub changing the distribution of. Imperial- warships, leaving the Commonwealth and the'ptl(ei< colonies to do as they choose to start navies of their own, Britain lending suitable ships and instructors. ' Admiral Fitzgerald it) confident that colonial navies' would be available to fight for the Empire wherever most wanted. The Daily Express states that Capt. Cresswell, naval director of the pommonwealtli, after visiting tlic shipyards of Tyne and Clyde, has forwarded to Mr Playford, Minister for Defence, specific*, tiong and estimates for four destroyers and four torpedqers. The Social Democratic Federation Conference at Bradford decline to affiliate with the Labor Representation Committee until it has clearly accepted the principles of Socialism. , . riie chief Morenga, returning from British territory, hid in a- deep rocky defile, at tho foot of a gorge, Gernnaiis attacked him, losing eight killed and several wounded. Morenga escaped in an easterly direction. NEW YORK, April 15. During 'target practice at the West ludies aboard the ynited States battleship Kcarsage, an explosion killed two lieutenants and six men. Fourteen were severely injured. t NEW YORK, April 16. Tho popularity of Maxim Gorky, tho Russian revolutionary, among Americans has not survived, owing to the discovery that his companion is an actress, though introduced as his wjfe. He has been compelled to leave two hotels'. Gayiior and Green, contractors, recently extradited from Canada and sentenced at Atlanta, Georgia, to four years' imprisonment, were lined' £115,430 for defrauding the. Government 3i> connection with tho Savannah harbor works. The Government spent £20,000 and the defendants £30,000 sterling in connection with the case. At tho opening of a public building at Washington; President Roosevelt dwelt on tlie necessity < for the sternest war agaiiwt the grave evils besetting the body politic. An epidemic of indiscriminate assaults on the cho meter of even decent public men luid sealed public conscience and constituted the worst sign of great unm-t in the political qnd industrial prob. lem. Ho advocated a progressive t«x on the transfer of enormous fortunes, preventing an individual inheriting beyond a certain amount ; also the national supervision of inter-State corporations in order to prevent* ovei» eapitalisatioii. The nation must strive to secure better econqinic opportunities' for all. President Roosevelt is accused in some quarters of advocating advanced Socialism. IMETERMABITZBUIIU, April 15. The Natal Government offers £500 for the capture of Baanbaata and £20 for each of his followei-s, dead or alive. PIETERMARITZBURG, April 16. Bambaata ha s refuged in caves near Cetewayo's grave. Three powerful chiofs assisted him, while others placed six thousand loyal natives at the Government's disposal. . (Received April 17. 8.55 a.m.) There is evidence that Diui-Zulus are m complicity with Bambaata. The revolt is extending. - Three hundred postal strikers m Buns have already been superseded. > ROME, April 16,. William Stibbevt, who died at Florence, bequeathed Britain a collection of firms, armor, and pictures worth a quarter of a million, with iv maintenance fund of £32,000. __________