FOREIGN CABLES.

Southland Times, Issue 19228, 15 December 1903, Page 3

FOREIGN CABLES.

MORE COMPLIMENTS. TURKEY'S PIN PRICKS. KAISER ABOUT. A BIG PREFERENCE. LONG DRAWN-OUT FRAUD. Per United Press Association By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. LONDON, Dec 13. Signor Mirajbello, Italiun Minister of Marine, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, expressed, in the name of the nation, recognition of Conuiiander Gaunt's services at Fort Durbo, and wishes for the speedy recovery of a brave officer. He added : " The Italian Navy is always united with the British by ties of sympathy." The President, amidst prolonged cheers, associated himself, with tho expressions on behalf of the House. The Turkish Minister in Belgrade has remonstrated agwdnst secret preparations that are being made to support an outbreak in Old Servia next spring. •The Kaiser ftajid an unexpected T>jsit to Berlin and viewed an art exhibition in the afternoon and the theatre in the evening. He was given an enthusiastic reception ,in the streets. The Brazilian Chamber has authorised a 60 per. cent, reduction in duties on products of countries admitting Brazilian coffee free. Father Drosd, , president, and HenKohout, manager of the St. Wenzel Loan Battxk, have been sentenced to seven years' hard labour at Prague on changes of issuing false balancesheets since 1877, and so covering up a deficit of eight million kroner, wherewith Catholic were subsidised.