NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12198, 17 January 1903, Page 5

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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*' i .V ' trie Un|ted Pres"a-".A^SoCiation J/ -4-Jijr l^El6o ' , :h ioNlb^ CHURCHES. ./ * / , . ...j, , , ,^Lon<ion, r January 10. . ArohVie^on.' S^ncjlair '.^f ;,l(oiidDn : anc Jot^ei-at: have .niade "«ugges tionsjin 7 to gtijeserjVer'tho cAj chHrcJjps. (Tha foundations- pi "sevei'a churches havo been rendered; infirm bj the excavations.-lor. ~ilie ' ''tuppenj tubes" below<^i,6ndo;s). . 1 SKATING-ON THEjTH^M-JBS. Skating -is ,beinio% 'caixied oir ai'ouinc - London.- -The' Thaxnds- is; frozen bve-i - w:)h' ice" an inch, thick .at Marrow. v t ;^ijelling"in Germany. ■ . , „, ('.,.. v , -^ .' - Berlin, January SO; , " At^ Karlsruhe. a. student namec • -Ruff r l . was sentenced to %h years im ■ " pri^onme'nt in a fortress for duelliha " and lulling a "fellow student who \«as 1 mespeqenqed in the use of. pistol?- i r ' BEQUEST TQ THE ICAISER. ; -The widow of ' a banker naru ie Oppensiomer at Colon has - " left ' tle Kaisor £100,000 sterlingRECIPROCITY FOR QERMAN. ... , GOODS. ; . The jßeichstag is discxissing/a ie , solution urging the "Government :x " denounced tho most, favoiu'ed" n'atiot arrangements, unless .Gernian ■ goo :1s areiaecoi»ded full reciprocity. < ; . MR BALFQUR'S HEALTH. » Londan, 'January 16, Mr Batfour f « improvement is ' \vi si maintained. ' ' • \ s>bh£!R,£SD PRESIDENT.: ''. ,t, t Sq far no exchange of New "Yeai greetings -between the Czar and P?e sident " Loubet of France, has "befer I>ublished. ' . ; RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS IN FRANC|i Paris, January 164 Replying. 'to an interpellation,' M, Combs, the Premier., said' hej wou^d ' *tdler'ate congregational institutions "where' the State did not" provide pyimary? schools. The Chamber by '3:1J3 ,to , approved the Government's attitude^ '- .-''"' ' ■' '" /'.. '' ' x : POVERTY OF. BRETONS.; , . -, A hundred, thousand Breton^ fa'ai^e - now. -^beesa." reduced- to T -the- last:., e>c- - - treiniiy-v- Q\vißg> M tb -the -disappearan je of the sardines from the Coast. - , ■ ' THE; AMERICAN NAVY^. .1 . . New York, ' January 'l6.j Owing to r . President °Rboseveltjfs . pressure*^ the N&val Committee f>J TMyth Ho<lses recommend the ! construction of three 16,000 tons battleships ,• . and a cruiser of 1400 tons. , ;