BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10958, 29 April 1907, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn. — By Telegraph. — Copyright.) LONDON, April 27. In the House of Commons, Mr Robert Balfoiu's Local Option Bill ({Scotland) was read a second time by 251 votes to 95, and referred to a committee. A deputation of members of the British Butter Trade Association and the- Greets ers' Federation of England interviewed Jy Sir Edward' Strachey and urged him to amend the Butter Bill, to prohibit substitutes or milk-blended butter containing more than 16 per bent, of moisture. Representatives of the new Australian mail syndicate had a brief interview with Mr Deakin and Sir W. Lyne. They intimated that they would be able m a few days to announce that satisfactory arrangements had been completed for an early commencement of the building of vessels. Following on a riotous coal-heavers 1 strike at Port Castries, on the island of St. Lucia, which the Governor of- the Windward Islands settled after a number of police and private persons had been woundedj, the sugar laborers at Roseau, the capital of the island of Dominica, broke into a riot, and burned a great extent of the sugar cane. t The police, while holding the factory against the rioters on Wednesday, killed and wounded 19 of them. Tne Governor of the Windward Islands arrived, and induced the attackers to accompany him and. the secretary to Roseau, where he quietened them and the ~ rest of the malcontents. Strikers m the * Dinnery district on" -Thursday marched to Port Castries. The Riot Act was. read, and order 'maintained. Police drafts are expected from Barbadoes and St. Vincent. The cruiser Indefatigable lias been'ordered to proceed to Port Castries. A Dutch Warship is m the harbor. As the rioters were again turbulent yesterday, a volunteer detachment, with a Maxim gun, was sent from Barbadoes. . (Received April 29, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, April 28. The Colonists' Association at Nairobi re-elected Captain Grogan president, and urged Lord Elgin to appoint an inquiry from home regarding the flogging incident and other grievances. Sir Horace Plunkett, Commissioner of the Congested Districts Board Ireland^ has specially retained office at Sir H. C. Bannerman's and Mr Bryce's request, pending committees of inquiry into the Affricultural Department. He retires at Whitsuntide, the Government yielding to Nationalist pressure as embodied m a resolution of the House of Commons. The Highways Committee of the late -V I^ondon ' Gounty v Council has withdrawn •^ their libel action against the Standard. The latter apologiseoT and paid costs. The Prince of Wales, m laying the foundation Bione of a new house for; the Society 1 for tie Propogation of the Gospel m Foreign Farts, testified from personal observation m all parts of the Empire to the Society's .success m supplying their fellow countrymen m the colonies with religious opportunities -which were impossible m the earlier days of the colonies' life without the generous support of the home church. :'■■.-.'■ OTTAWA, April 27. Considering that British^ Columbia's Immigration Bill is chiefly intended to exclude Hindus and Japanese, and violates tlje Anglo- Japanese treaty, to which Canada- is a party, the Lieutenant-Gover-nor of British Columbia has reserved the Bill for the Royal assent. OTTAWA, April 28. The increase m Canada's imports for the year ending March 31 was £950,000 and the exports one millionand a half. Sir Edward Grey's denial of an alliance with Spain, coupled with heavy participation of British capital m the German loan, is having a reassuring effect on public feeling m Berlin. V BERLIN, April 28. Socialist speeches m the Reichstag iv reference to the military estimates were remarkably conciliatory, which fact is interpreted to mean that; the Socialists consider the moment unsuitable for weaki enirvg Germany'fr position in^relatic-n^Jai foreign comitiuwr"" I—'1 — ' ' ' ™" - ' " ii '*" i ' j "'^ 1 ' . _- — —^^^^NEW YORK, April 28. •President Roosevelt reviewed the warships m Hampton Roads and inaugurated ] the Jamestown Exhibition. He delivered a historical and patriotic address, m which he briefly dwelt, on the modern problem of the legitimate control of corporate wealth. He pi-edicted that the United States would never become a Government either of plutocrats or of the mob. ' CALCUTTA, April 27. According to the Calcutta newspaper, the Indian Daily News, the Hindus and Mohammendans m Decian, Marayangahu, and Nymensinglare are secretly arming, and serious trouble is feared.