BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12795, 29 September 1905, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

.ttJJuiUji' Pr'ws' EUwtiio:; ■ Telegraph—Copyright. "" . " '• GENERAL SOOTH. LONDON,' Septeifilier 27... ■.'The free;:-()ni of--tl te "City of London has bean . unatiiiious y - co-aferred. -on General "Booth. ■- :■■■+ ••• ; • " ' • .- - COAL FOR RUSSIA. ' " ' Russia has ordered' 50,000 tons of steam' coal -at Cardiff- for the earliest possible :delivery. ' ' RISE IN" IRON. Owing to the -rise in pig iron the Scotch steelmasters have Taised the price 'of .all manufactures by 10s a-ton. - ;- - THE RUSSIAN NAVY. : ' ST; PETERSBURG, September 28. Russia his ordered a large cruiser, from the Vkikers-Maxim works, and another from France;- " FATAL' TYPHOON. _ HONGKONG, September 27: A typhoon -at Manila killgjJ ten Filipinos imd thousands homeless. - r " TSE POWERS AND THE PORTE/ " - CONSTANTINOPLE, September 27, .. The..Powers, in a- Note, requested the Porte to issue instructions enabling - the controllers -at Sa'pnika, as cabled on Sep:twjber; flieauJaaetiong- iiriaiefifltely.• . ... • . - - ' Chinese on the ;rand. , V : -CAPETOWN,..September 27.. rhe ChiiTese pn the Rand received-£315,-C 74 from January, to Jiineu. Tbey remittei?' £15,744 to rheir relative--, and spent.thebnlance in clothing and luxuries. -. ■ . THE HUNGARIAN. POLITICAL ",. crtsts;' . - VIENNA, September 27. ' The Eingarians' Coalition manifesto declares that some points in the Emperor Francis Josef's programme are unconstitutional. His attitude to the army abolishes Hungary's right, to control affairs. v. -FRENCH CONGO. ■ • PARIS, September 27. : M. Clemencau states that the reorganisation of-the French Congo has been progres-sing-.for years.-An experimental treaty with the'-Nifjer Company has been con-cluded-for the carriage cf supplies and troopa. to:. Lake Chad . and. abolishing the homblecabuses of porterage.