Codesed Gabies.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 12809, 17 March 1905, Page 2

Codesed Gabies.

♦ ■ Colonel Hay (U.S. Secretary for State) is suffering from overwork and has been ordered a month's holiday in the Mediterranean. The United States Senate virtually laid aside the San Domingo Treaty. Wihen informed of the fate of the San Domingo Treaty President Eoosevelt remarked : "It is an abandonment of the Monroe doctrine."King Alfonso of Spain visits Paris and London in June. Owing to strong feeling in the country, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier, consented to modify the educational clauses in the North-west Provinces Autonomy Bill. Dr. Eoseby, who has just returned to Sydney from New Zealand, has given the press some impressions of New Zealand. He was forcibly struck with the almost entire absence of signs oJ abject poverty and distiess. Those social derelicts, neglected children, Jiko tnose seen in Sydney, were absent in New Zealand. ' The land legislation there led the world. The doctor was deeply impressed with the excellent results of temperance legislation. Signor Marconi was married at St. George's, Hanover Square, to Beatrice, Lord Inchiquin's sister. A mountain in the Rhymney, Valley, Monmotithshirc, owing to a stream of quicksand permeating the base, has been moving for several days at tbe rate of half an inch an hour. Ten thousand tons have fallen. The slide threatens the colliery buildings .at Newtrcdgar and twelve hundred men have been thrown idle. Owing to a slight cold, the Prince of Wale^ represented the King at yesterday's levee. The Ameer of Afghanistan favourably received Prince Inyatulla's (the Ameer's son) suggestion to establish a military academy with European teachers. The Budget Committee of the German Reichstag finally added to the Estimates provision for 28- additional squadrons of cavalry.