British and Foreign Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11815, 12 November 1901, Page 3

British and Foreign Telegrams.

United Press Association I.—Byl .—By Electric Telegraph.—rCopyright. Received November 12, 12.20 a.m. EVASION OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE. New York, November 11. . .The New York Herald says that in order to evade the Monroe doctrine Germany has induced the Ham-burg-American steamship line to apply to Columbia for a coaling station near Cartegena. - Secretary John Hay has referred the matter to the Navy, Department. ' Received November 12, 8.54 a.m. FRUITS OF TAMMANY. New York, November 11. The cost of the municipal administration of New York for 190Q was forty millions sterling. This enormous) expenditure was due to the Tammany system. Received November 12£ 9.7 a.m. A GRIM STORY. London, November 11. An American named Canisus, long employed in the Congo Free State, has published a narrative describing the systematic massacre of natives by officials tot declining to bring in rubber. The natives, he adds, are paid a penny a' pound for rubber, which is sold at three' shillings a pound. - * A PLAGUE-RIDDEN STEAMER, Paris, November 11. The Antwerp„ steamer Saghalien was unloading at > Marseilles, and 480 rats, winch nad died-oL..plague, were discovered \n the hold. The authorities at French ports are discussing the. question of wholesale rat destruction! MADAME MELBA'S COLONIAL ENGAGEMENT. London, November 11. Madame Melba has arranged with Mr Musgrove for a three months' concert tour in the Australian'capitals, beginning at the middle of September. .. «