BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11122, 9 November 1907, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Asßn.— By Teiegraph—Cppyright). -'■'"'. ! LONDONy Noveniber 8V , V " ' The new first-class battleship Superb has been launched, ■•-, ,yV V y An; International Congress will be held at Geneva in >Septe'mber next to discuss the' question :of ythe suppression of- alimentary' pharmaceutical frauds., • v Following Sir HV G. BarineiTOan's odvicp to keep on pestoriiig, \the suffragettes ; intervene, at most. Liberal/ meetings where Ministers speak. Four were ejected, frPm Mr Harcourt's meeting at Batley . y The Times' Capetown . * correspondent reports that it has- been: decided tliat Peßeer's Company's preference; shares; which are inos'tly held in; England, shall riot pay Cape income fax. /■>■ * ■■..-• (Receiyedl November 9. 9.53 a.m.) v The executors of Louis Spitael liave agreed to pay all the Melbourne claims Against the estate in , full, with & per cent interest for 25 years, and all expenses. Spitzel was a working jeweller/ in Melbourne for 25 years, and left vowing a considerable amount ito various, creditors! He subsequently acquired' a huge fortune in China. V' ROME, Nov. 8. The Penal Court sentenced five insulters/pf Qardirial Merry dela,yal vat Varino to heavy fines and imprisonment. The lazy railway strike, in which the workriien went easy, keeping no timetable and doing almost as they pleased, has collapsed. ST. ■ PETERSBURG, Nov. 8. The Supreme Criminal Court has, convicted M. Gurko, Assistant-Minister of the Interior, of overstepping his official powers in connection with the Lidoral grain contract. He was dismissed from Office arid forbidden to hol^ a public appointment for the next three years. ■ . t , The estimates Oil extraordinary expenditure, including items arising out of the Warand railway extensiony leaves a Budget deficit of twenty millions sterling. Nineteen millions will be covered by credit operations. ■NEW YORK, Nov; .8. Contracts entered, into for' the importation of gold to New 'York, 'with wlh(t has already arrived- bring the total shipments of gold to £7,820>00Q. Tlie s.s. Lusitania, despite a severe gale, improved her outward record by one hour. Tlie Presidents of Nicaragua, l Honduras, aiid San Salvador held a conference at Amapala, and iigreed to resume frienjdly relations. It was decided to hold a peace conference at Washington, and to adopt a uniform code of international law. BERLIN; Nov. 8. The. Kaiser's cold left inflammation of tlie palate and in the neighborhood of the passages leading to the eaiis. Tlie Kaiser yesterday attended the. opera. Seven more deaths have resulted ifrom the boiler explosion on the Bleucher. (Received November 9, 8.20 a.m.) PRETORIA, November 8. Sir G. H. Farrar, speaking at Boksburjr, said the /mine owners regarded the Chinese coolie' experiment as absolutely dead. It cost a million and a half, and would never. be renewed. .He hoped the Government ■ would riot live to regret its insistence oh the repatriation of the Chinese and ruthless legislating away of /vested rights at the dictation of the* English Liberals. Sir/ George Fan*ar advocated throwing open the whole of the Transvaalto mining prospectors. ' CAPETOWN, November 8. In unveiling the Rhodes ;• bust . at, Grahamstown, Di* Jameson said although the colonies received a 6lap in; the face at the . Conference, Imperial preference would oome as sure as fate; meanwhile South Africa would continue preference until the Motherland realised its inevitableness. In the course of a speech, Dr Jameson hinted that Mr Schreiner, wliose re-entry into politics was cabled on October 20, will possibly be leader of the new Union/ ist party, formerly known as Progressives^ whose present broad policy is that of developing agriculture, commerce, and mining, and to put tlie country's interests before that of party. . .