BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

iPresa Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright ) LONDON, May 3. Lord .Elgin, considering the •unanimity of the Transvaal Parliament, advised King Edward not to disallow the Asiatics Legislation Bill. j Sir Richard Solomon has been appointed Agent-General for the 'Transvaal in' London. Britain has applied to Turkey for tho recovery of Mr Abbot t' 6 ransom. Mr Oswald Binley, a New Zealander, is exhibiting at the Paris Salon and Royal Academy. Mr MacKennal, an Australian sculptor, has sold a group entitled "Earths and Element," now on exhibition at the Academy, to thc Chanting bequest. PARIS, May 3. King Edward held forty-five minutes' conversation with President Fallieres at the Elysee. BRUSSELS, May 3. M*. de Trooz, a Clerical, has formed a Ministry m Belgium. CALCUTTA, llfiy 3. Serious rioting has occurred at Rawalpindi. The mob burned motor cars and pillaged a mission church and contractors' stores. Armed police dispelled the rioters. A squadron of the 10th Hussars is patrolling the town. ST. PETERSBURG, May 3. Russia and Japan have agreed to the ! text of a commercial treaty, embodying < specifio concessions on each side. j