BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyrigbt.) LONDON, April 26. The ballots at Woolwich arsenal were very largely favorable to five days work weekly. The statement by. the-Correspencia Espana that Britain and Spain nave concluded a naval alliance is officially contra, dieted. - The .Westminster Gazette authoritatively denies the report that Britain is assisting Spain financially to enable her to augment her fleet, and reorganise her ports and arsenals. (Received April 27, 9.59 a.m.) The Admiralty regard submarines as . weapons- of extraordinary effectiveness for the defence of ports, and are visS.sed to allocate a proportion of the olonial Naval Subsidies to local, needs The London Corporation voted one hundred guineas towards sending a rifte team to Australia. .♦lr Louis Dupan Marlett, private secretary to Sir Edward Grey, lias succeeded Sir Eldon Gorst as Assistant Secretary to the Foreign Office. In the. House' of Commons Mr J_loyd George announced a Bill prohibiting railway and other statutory corporations from contributing out of their funds to political contests. ■-' Sir Edward Grey, m reply to Mr Pikepease, declared tliat the granting of an intermediate tariff to foreign countries would not prevent Canada altering British preference m. the future. - A number of skilled employes from Woolwich - have been engaged at high wages at Ems areena l , Germany. Mr Benty the Victorian Premier, has arrived m London. ; Seven thousand cases .of the Oratava's Australian butter were badly tainted, it is believed by bilge, water. An exhaustive enqujry is being held into the causes. BERLIN, April 26. The injuries bf tho Kaiser's soirEitel are not dangerous. The Imperial Disciplinary Court reprimanded Herr Puttkamer, Governor of the Cameroohj., - for interfering with j usf ice, participating; m trading companies, 'and introducing a paramour from .Germany. He was fined £50. - Tlie recently -announced German loan of "twenty million pounds sterling has been subscribed forty-five times. .