BRITISH CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 19264, 30 January 1904, Page 3

BRITISH CABLES

ROYAL VISITORS. LIBERAL POINTS. BRITISH COTTON. CANADIAN ADVANTAGE. Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright LONDON, Jan. 28. The King and Queen proceed to [reland on 23rd April, remaining ten days. Sir H. Campbell Bann<erinan, gpeajo -ing at Glasgow, declared that it was shameful that hundreds of British workmen were returning from South Africa weekly while Chinese were welcomed. Dealing with tha tariff, he said moderate protection was impossible. Originally it was only a/n incidental feature in Mr Chamberla|in's policy, but now protection was placed unabashed in the forefront. A company with a quarter of a million, has been floated to grow cotton in British Africa and the West Indies. Remarkable activity prevails ai Woolwich Arsenal. Mr Bennett, one of the Staffordshire potteries' delegates, is taking to Australia the necessary machinery to start works. Sir Walter Peace has resigned tho Agency-Generalship of Natal on account of ill-health. The head of the Canadian Intelligence Department reports that Pearce Island, "belonging to Canada, completoly dominates the islands in Port-^ " land ; Channel awarded to the United States by the Alaskan Boundary Commission. At the inquest on Wright, a verdict of suicide was returned. It is supposed he took pmssic acid in a lavatory. He afterwards talked with his friends and was attempting to light a cigar, when he suddenly ex. pired.