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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12042, 16 April 1903, Page 2

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BRITISH AND FOREIGN ! United Press Association—Per Electrh Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.22 a.m., April 15th. . i AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS. , NEW YORK, April 14. ' Thirty-tnree per cent, of the immigrants arriving in America are Italians, and 27 per cent. Austro-Hungarians. AMERICAN RAILWAY STOCK. Large masses of stocks have been thrown on the New York market; owing to the recent decision, forbidding the merging of the Northern Railway Companies. TROUBLE WITH NATIVES NEW YORK, April' 15. . German natives at Upola and Savaii claim land at- Xutilla. The American Secretary for Native Affairs caused the arrest of several Tutillans who proposed to murder the Upola claimants. Germany has appointed a commission consisting of Germans, Britains, and Samoans to settle land disputes. The American have done nothing in the matter. EXTRADITION REFUSED . ROME, April 14. The request of the Russian Government for the extradition of Gotz, recently arrested at Milan, has been refused. RUSSIAN POLICE RAIDS. ST. PETERSBURG, April 14. The St. Petersburg police made a night raid on lodging houses, and arrested 900 lodgers found without passports. In some instances the lodgers tried to burn the premises, and fiercely resisted the police. THE BELGIAN SOCIALISTS. BRUSSELS, April 14. The Belgian Socialists' Congress has resolved to abolish the sale of alcoholic liquors at the Labour party's co-operativo stores. THE GOVERNOR OP ALGERIA. PARIS, April 14. r connection with the resignation of « • Voi1 ' 9°Y erllor of Algeria, the it Dauphinois," which is owned by M. Baragnon, M. Revoil's uncle, alleged that M. Jidgar Combos, the Premier's son, offered to obtain authorisation for the Carthusians, under the Religious Associations Act, for a million francs. The allegation was indignantly denied on behalf of M. Combes, and M. Revoil denied that he was associated therewith. M. Revoil's resignation was due to M. Combes' refusal to hear him on the subject, and declining to sign his promotion to the Legion of Honour on the occasion of M. Loubet's forthcoming visit to Algeria. SMALLPOX.

' LONDON, April 14. News has been received that a terrible outbreak of smallpox has occurred at Saghalien. The burials can scarcely keep pace with the deaths. FIGHT IN A TRAIN. A Queenslander and a Dutchman were travelling in a train between London and Harwich, when an insulting remark made by the Dutchman about the Queen, proyoked the Queenslander. A fight ensued, m which the Dutchman was severely handled. Both were arrested with thehr ' faces covered with blood. ' THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. ' Lieutenant-General Sir James Bevan. Edwards has been appointed Colonel: Commandant of the Royal Engineers PERSONAL.

An annuity of £I2OO has been settled on Woelfling, upon his promising his family not to marry Mdlle. Adamovies, with whom he is still staying at Montrnux, in Switzerland. IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Mr John Morley, speaking at Montrose), protested ■ against the cost of militarism, and the spendthrift and demoralising extravagance of the Government, which was extraordinary. The new Irish Land Bill was a confession that, the resolute government of Ireland was an abject failure He agreed with v Mr Redmond that 1 - the settlement of the land question would be an enormous step toward* Home Rulo GENERAL PIENAAR • G i 6 onn al Piena f' J the Boer le «l« Who, in 1900, surrendered Trith 1200 men at Is-oomati Poort, and trim since has been interned in Portugal, latterly got into monetary difficulties. He canJto London where he was treated so generously that he shed tears at Mr Chamberlain's kindness in assisting lum and his family back to Johannesburg, and reinstating Tim in

r 2 .T S ? :Mn - A PViI 16th. MINING IN THE TRANSVAAL PV f ' • . .CAPETOWN, April 15. at H-wiS™ ck ™; l)eggin S h 'w taken place ?n t ei ' g ' and Klerksdorp, «n,J Transvaal, in which many thousands, of persons participated. The pro. ceecimgs were orderly.