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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11700, 8 March 1902, Page 3

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BRITISH & FOREIGN United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraphs—Qopyright. Received 9.27 a.m., March 7th. IMPERIAL POLITICS. LONDON, March 6. t>ir H. Campbell-Bannerman, in a speech at- the National Liberal Club, said that the Roseberyites were not true friends of Liberalism if they constituted a separate organisation hostile to the central authority, and fought" the section which had all power. Earl Spencer, speaking at Eastbourne, said that he declined to abandon Home Rule. THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. The Royal visit to Ireland for the present- year has been abandoned, owing to the Coronation festivities. THE SUGAR BOUNTIES. The Sugar Bounties Convention has been signed by the Powers concerned. Canada. Australia, and India are not included in the sugar convention, but are able to join on application. The signatory Powers. agree to levy countervailing duties on all bounty-fed sugars, and prohibit import. SPREAD .OF BRITISH INFLUENCE: Dr Tuewell. Bishop of Western Equatorial Africa, after visiting Kanem. declares that British influence will soon be supreme up to Lake Tchad. OBITUARY. Mr Leonard Lewisohn, originator of the American Copper Trust. He died in London, and was worth £5,000.000. THE CORONATION. The British Empire League is receiving liberal contributions towards entertaining the colonial representatives : at the Coronation. The programme .includes a tour of the provinces. A LONDON FOG. A dense fog prevails in London. Casualties are reported in the English Channel, and traffic and shipping are'disorganised. COLLISION AT SEA. . The Belgic-American liner Waesland collided with the Houston liner Hannontides off Holvhead. The Waesland sank after 200 passengers and the crew had been rescued.

PRESIDENT LQUBET. ST. PETERSBURG,'March 6. The Czar, in an autograph' letter, has invited President Loubet to visit St. Petersburg. The visit, takes place during the latter half of May. . VIOLATION OF A TREATY. PARIS. March 6. * " Le Temps " says that Lord Curzon lias violated the Anglo-French Convention of 1895, by lending the King of Siam 1500 Sikh soldiers to police Bangkok. - PRINCE HENRY'S VISIT. NEW YORK. March 6. Prince BTenrv has visited Chicago and Niagara. The Legislature of Ontario presented an address, welcoming the distinguished descendant of Queen Victoria. A BLIZZARD. A blizzard of snow and sleet, lasting many hours, has occurred in America, blocking trains. A famine in New York is threatened. . A BRIEF REBELLION.. BELGRADE. March 6. M. Ahvvantie, a distant relation of Prince Karatreorgevitch. and four others, attempted to organise a rebellion in Servia. Attired in a general's uniform, he induced a few frontier guards to follow him. and attempted to seize the Prefecture. The cuards fired and missed the captain of gendarmes, who demanded their authority. The captain, inflicted three mortal wounds on M. Alavantic. who. when dying, confessed that Prince Karageorgevitch "had prompted him. The latter denied the relationship, and attributes the rising to the Government's machinations.

Received 4.38 p.m.. March 7th. GERMANY AND HOLLAND. BERLIN, March 6. A sensation has been created in Germanv and Holland over ' Professor VonHalfe's latest book, in which he foreshadows the absorption of Holland by Germany, first economically then politically. He denounces Holland's obstructionist commercinl policy at toe mouth of the Rhine, which is" detrimental to the interests of the hinterland. He further declares that England and America are the traditional enemies of Holland, while Germany is her natural ally and protector. REC4XL OF GERMAN WAR VESSELS. The Kaiser has recalled the cruiser Kaiserin Au<rusta and two torpedo destroyers from China.

COWTCTTON FOR TREASON. Mnr C h *. Pacha, son" of a Kurdish chiei. w< sentenced to death for treason, but h-d h'= sentence commuted to imprisonfM POETICAL ARREST. Mazmi' Pacha, son of the former Grand Yi7ie- Ali, has been arrested in connection "with the disaffection at Constantinople. ___~.^—«•——«^