British and Foreign

Southland Times, Issue 14512, 13 December 1900, Page 3

British and Foreign

STRONG POSITION OF THE SALISBURY MINISTRY. ANGLO FRENCH ARBITRATION CASE. CANADIAN MINISTERS" TO VISIT AUSTRALIA. FRANCE'S NAVAL EXPENDITURE. GERMAN TRADE SHOWS SIGNS OF DECLINE. THE LAND DISPUTES IN IRELAND. SLATIN BEY DOING WELL IN THE SOUDAN. (United Pbbbs Association. —By Electbic Telegraph — Copyright). LONDON, Dec. 11. In the House of Commons an amendment to the Address-in- Reply, moved by Mr Bartley, member for Islington North, regretting that a number of Lord Salisbury's relatives have been included in the Cabinet, was rejected by a majority of 102. Baron Lambermont, Belgian Minister, for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed arbitrator between Britain and France as to the compensation to be paid by the latter to the widows and children of the British officers killed in au unintentional encounter at Waima, West Africa, some years ago when French troops mistook British for native rebels. Yielding to the general Canadian and Imperial wish, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Canadian Premier, accompanied by several colleagues, will attend the opening of the Australian Commonwealth Parliament. The French Senate has passed the Navy bill, which provides for the expenditure of 762,266,000 francs in the construction of six ironclads, five cruisers, 20 torpedo boat destroyers, 186 torpedo boats and 44 submarine boats. Baron Von HielmanD, Minster of Finance, warned the Reichstag that Germany had entered upon a period of declining trade. A cargo of Australian wheat has been sold at 29s per quarter. The Lord Chief Justice of Ireland has declared that there are 731 farms in the Munster district from which tenants had been evicted, and one fifth of these, he says, are derelict, and the rest occupied by the police-pro-tected tenants. Juries, lie says, re- | fuse to convict in intimidation cases, and he advises changes of venues and special juries to deal with the cases. The managing directors of Pearson's Magazine Publishing Company, Ltd., have been fined £100 each for issuing football competition coupons with their publications. The mission of Major-General Slatin , Pasha, who in September last was ap- 1 pointed Inspector-General of the Soudan, has proved so successful that, as a result of the Slatin 's overtures, the Sultan of Darfur has hoisted the British and Egyptian flags. The Hedvig's cargo of Canterbury wheat sold at 295.