GENERAL ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume XLIII, Issue 9688, 18 January 1900, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

Reinforcements from Foreign Stations London, January 15. The 2nd Battalion of the West Kent Begiment (The Queen's.Own), now at Alexandria, and the Ist Battalion of the Leicestershire Eegiment, now at Halifax have been ordered to South Afrioa. The Law of Contraband. Tinned Meats ExemptJanuary 16. The decision of Great: Britain that foodstuffs shall not be regarded as contraband of war, unless it is shown on the ship's manifest that they are destined to the enemy does not apply to tinned meats and other articles which might possibly be consumed by an army in the fieldDubbak, December 15. The cargo of foodstuffs by the steamer Maria seized at Delagoa Bay by the British has been released. Greek Sympathy. Athens, January 14. The sympathy of the Greek nation with the British cause in the present war was manifested at a great pro-British demonstration held in the Greek Chamber of Deputies. Boers Received Guns and Shells I from French Steamer. Under Nose of British Warships. London, January 17. The Natal correspondent of the London ' Times ' states that a French steamer, in December last, landed six Creuzot Long Toms and fifty tons of shells at Delagoa Bay, under the very nose of two British warships.

111-timed Action.

' Leonard Courtney Selous, the African hunter, Henry Stephen Gladstone, Dr. Clifford, and-others have formed a Conciliation Committee, to promote a peaceful settlement of the -South Afrioan, trouble.