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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11998, 21 February 1903, Page 2

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BRITISH MB FOREBGN Uniiad Press Association—Per Electrie • Telegraph—Copyright. Received 8.21 a.m., February 2Cth. THE BOILER TESTS. LONDON, Februuy 19. In the boiler tasts H.M.S. Hyacinth's, pis-tnn-rod bec-imo; overheate t, causing an expansion, and the severe stmin threatened a dislocation. The engineer thereupon shut off steam, and averted a terrible iiccideut The i-ruisue was then forty miles ahead of the Minerva, twenty-three hours after starting. :. OBITUARY. ! Prince Komatsu, of apoplexy; aged S7. i The Prince represented Japan at the Coro- ] nation celebrations in London, and was 1 closely related Co the Mikado.. ; ' LICENSING QUESTIONS. ' Two years' experience of Lord G'rey's ' Public House- Trust's management of new ■ licensed houses in the interest of the comj munity shows- the experiment to be highly ! successful. £ The new Licensing Act requires FreeI mason Lodges to be registered, or they must obtain spirit licenses. The Magistrates are enormously reducing the number of licensed Houses. VOLUNTEERING. The new regulations lur<r® had tlte effect, of reducing the number of volunteers by 70,000. IRISH QUESTIONS. Lord ffitt Freyne is chaining £20,000 from the leaders of the United Irish League, for inciting a plan of campaign for boycotting- and resisting t&e payment of rent. ITALY AND HER NAVY. Re-.rier says that a sensation was created in this Italian Cham&er of • Deputies by Adnural Merin, Minister o{ Marine, desclariing that the Italian Navy Sor 36 years had been studying, working, and preparing for* a day of trial. " CENTRAL AFRICA. The delimitation of the Anglo-French frontier from Sokoto to Lake Tchad is progressing rapxtly. AUSTRALIAN FINANCE. Financial circles, while deprecating the exaggerated attacks, are strongly of opinion that Australia does not realise that she has been borrowing too freely. Recent loans are still unabscirbed, and the weakness of stocks is due to newspaper attacks, coupled with the bad impression created by the immigration restriction law. Received 11.36 p.m., February 20tl-. A BUSY TIME FOR SHIPBUILDERS. LONDON, February 20. A Liverpool firm has ordered six steamers from the Clyde Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. A CANCER ENQUIRY. King Edward has ordered an enquiry into the alleged threefold increase of cancer in Ireland in a few years. CHAIR OF COMMERCIAL SCIENCE. A chair of Commercial Science has been established at Zurich University, the only one on the Continent IMPORTANT ADMIRALTY CHANGES. The Admiralty announce that the command of the Home Fleet will be divorced next May from the command of the Naval Reserves and from Admiralty Offlie work. The Admiral and Superintendent,ifof Naval * n ...»

as Admiral; in command, of. the sea-Koine-squadron- VJce-Admiral Wilson will' as sume command of the Homo Fleet, vice Admiral Bice, who will command the Coastguard and Naval Reserves.It is expected that the Home Fleet when, reconstrnoted and strengtljened will ao fatSfi SOIViDS the AT ° rti * Sea'SqMdron, . THE BEEF TRUST NEW YORK, February 19, . A wmporary injunction has beengranted; ™ " lca ?? the Beef Trust's agreennf ° h Pl '° vides ttat members Shall, not aid against each other at cattle sales. ihe- injunction declares that the fixing of El ™ nCt ? g of meat it an,, illegal restraint on trade. THEFT OF A PICTURE ST PETERSBURG, FeWy 19. A picture of tha Saviour, worth £'lo 000 has been stolen from St. Izak Cathedral. " IHE ADEN HINTERLAND , The " Novoe, Vrcmya's » Constantinople, ; correspondent states that Britain has not" , fled Turkey t&at if the slighted intention. .is manifested to send troops to Arabia j Britain will occupy all the Red Sea ports'. ; llie message; is interpreted to refer to the. ! Aden hintejland. TURKEY AND THE POWERS CONSTANTINOPLE, February 19. The German, French and Italian Ambassadors have been instructed to urge theSultan of Turkey to accept and execute the prescribed reforms. Russia lias warned Bulgaria, that Turkey's mobilisation of forces is in accordance with advice ta prepare for every eventuality. Thereupon the Bulgarian commercial- agents in Turkey were instructed to urge every Bulgarian to promote tranquility, and warn disturbers that there would be no help for Bulgaria, inasmuch as Turkey has a. free hand to crush disorders. THE AFRIDI REGIMENTS . CABUL, February 20. IIB ™ e , alou M n and incipient disaffection among the Afghan soldiers owing to the enrolment of the Afridi regiments, have , caused the Ameer to disband the latter. . 1 - 13 a - m -> February 21st THE KAISER AND RELIGION m, Tr . BERLIN, February 20. ' Ihe Kaiser, in writing to Admiral Hoffman, a member of the Oriental Society, [ deprecates Professor Delitsch's conclusions ; beliefs and revelations. The Kaiser pre- - diets that the kernel of the Old Testament " will survive research, that religion wag not the result of science but the outpouring of a man's heart and being from in- ; I tercourse with God.