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Temuka Leader, Issue 4015, 24 February 1903, Page 1

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HOME AND FOREIGN. LONDON, Feb. 19. Two years' experience of Lord Grey's Public House Trust's management of new licensed houses in the interest of the community shows the experiment to be highly successful. The new ' Licensing Act requires Freemason Lodges to he registered, or they must obtain spirit licenses. The Magistrates are enormously reducing the number of licensed houses. The new regulations have had the effect of reducing the number of volunteers by 70,000. Lord de Freyne is claiming £20,000 from the leaders of the Unitens Irish League, for inciting a plan of campaign for boycotting and resisting the payment of rent. Renter says that a sensation was created in the Italian Chamber of Deputies by Admiral Morin, Minister of Marine, declaring' that the Italian Navy for 36 years had been studying, Working and preparing, for a day of trial. Financial circles while deprecating the exaggerated attacks are strongly of opinion that Australia does not realise that she has been borrowing too freely. Feb. 20. A Liverpool firm has ordered six steamers from the Clyde Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. King Edward has ordered an enquiry into the alleged threefold increase of cancer in Ireland in a few years. It is expected that the Home Fleet when reconstructed and strengthened will go far towards solving the North Sea Squadron problem. l-'eo. LI. All the Powers have recommenced the Sultan to appoint an Lisped erGeneral of Macedonian vilayets for five years. Britain's p>.\.pi.>vs for a Gevernor-G eneral to be appmrted by the Powers was considered too radical by the Porte. The Russian and Persian Customs tariff in reality governs the whole of Persian trade. It favours Russ'an exports and imports, and Br»Jain's trade is crushingly hinuicapped. Father Flint won the Waterloo Coursing' Cup, Paracelsus being run-ner-up. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Skidding on frozen rails caused an electric car containing some High School pupils at Newark, New Jersey, to burst through the railway gates at a crossing, and an express colliding with the car killed eleven girls and injured thirty girls and b'oys The commander of the German cruiser Panther made application for leave to enter Lake Maracaibo, and permission for the officers of the Vmta to travel in the interior. The request, which has been referred to President Castro, has caused fresh excitement in Venezuela. A temporary injunction has been granted in Chicago against the Beef Trusts' agreement, which provides that member's: ;; shall not bid against each other at cattle sales. Tne injunction declares that the fixing of prices restricting shipments of meat is an illegal restraint on trade. A gun explosion at Fort La Fayette killed four men and injured 11. Clifton Hotel, Cedar Rapids, lowa, was destroyed by fire to-day. Twenty persons were killed and forty injured. Feb, 2:1. The Cedar Rapids fire was caused by the fusion of electric wires in the (basement of the hotel. Many of the victims were delegates, who were attending the Young Men's Christian Association Conference. Germany has returned a few Venezuelan fishing boats. The Restaurador is still flying the German uag at Puerto Cabella. A meeting representing 100,000 negro voters of New York State protested against the disfranchisement of negroes under the new Virginian Constitution, and applauded President Roosevelt's negro appointment in the south. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 19... A picture of the Saviour, worth £IO,OOO has,been stolen from St. Izak Cathedral. The Novoe Vremya's Constantinople correspondent states that Britain has notified Turkey that if the slightest intention is manifested to send trops to Arabia, Britain will occupy all the Red Seaports. The message is interpreted to refer to the Aden hinterland. WASFTI v GTON. Feb. 21. The House of Representatives adopted a Bill providing for the construction of three" battle-ships, one cruiser, and three training-ships. The personnel of the navy is also to be incr6eiS6d. CONSTANTINOPLE Feb 19. The German, French, and Italian Ambassadors have been instructed to urge the Sultan of Turkey to accept and execute the prsenbed reforms. Russia has warned Bulgaria that Turkey's mobilisation of forces is in accordance with advice to prepare for every eventuality. - Feb. :M. The Porte has reiterated its instructions to the authorities of Ihe Aden hinterland to comply with the British wishes, and enable the delimitation of territory to be proceedCdWith - ' BERLIN, Feb. 20. The Kaiser, in writng to Admiral Hoffman, a member of tho-Oriental Society, deprecates Professor" Delitsch's conclusions, beliefs, and revelations. The Kaiser predicts that the kernal of the Old Testament will survive research, that religion was not the result of science but the outpouring of a man of heart and l,eing from The Pope received thousands of congratulatory telegrams on the 25th anniversary of his accession to the -Papal chair,