BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12844, 30 November 1905, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NO ROOM FOR MEMORIALS. LONDON, November 28. The Earl of Windsor. Commissioner of Works, states that the Government is unable to provide a- site in London for the proposed Imperial Peace Memorial Building. to commemorate the names of the British and Colonial forces vrho fell in South Africa, and the War Committee is returning the subscriptions. •

ACCOUNTANTS' CORPORATION. The Heralds College has granted the Corporation of Australian Accountants a patent of arms. A PECULIAR. CASE. The prisoner Gillson, who committed suicide by jumping from a train, has been identified as a woman named James. Received 9.45 p.m., November 29th. DISTRESS IN ENGLAND. LONDON, November 29. Tue Queen's Unemploved Fund has reached £IOO,OOO. Received 10.44 p.m., November 29th. A POOR LAW ENQUIRY. The King has appointed a Commission to enquire into the working of the poor law. Lord George Hamilton is chairman, and the other members are Mr Charles Booth, Professor C. S. Loch (secretary to the Council of the London Charitv Organisation So-: ciety). Miss Octavia Hill, Mrs Sydney Webb, and several local government officials.

Received 11.36 p.m., November 29th. A NEW AMBASSADOR, Sir Arthur Nicholson, formerly Ambassador at Madrid, has been, appointed- Ambassador at St.' Petersburg. THE HOME RULE QUESTION. . Lord Tweedmouth, speaking at Fraser!burg. and referring to Home Rule, said that instead of the frontal attack the Liberals must adopt perhaps slower methods. To introduce a Home Rule Bill in the next Parliament, of the same character as the 1886 and 1893. Bills, would only be to court defeat. AN IMMENSE DEMONSTRATION. VIENNA, November 29. Two hundred thousand workers, male and female, marched quietly . past the Reiclisrath. The Emperor witnessed the parade, and remarked: "I'wish all success to the Franchise Bill. The movement has become irresistible."-' THE JAPANESE LOAN. ; TOKIO, November 28. Of the Japanese £50,000,000 loan £2,000.000 is now offered in Paris, £6,500,000 in London. £3,250,000 in New 1 ork, and £3,250,000 in Berlin.. THE PANAMA CANAL. NEW YORK, November 28. The '"New York Tribune" states that President Roosevelt recommends to Congress the construction of a lock canal at Panama.

THE KING'S CUP. ' _ The New York Yacht- Club has accepted the King's Cup. King Edward arranged most of the conditions. AFRICAN REBELLION. BERLIN, November 28. Advice has been received that Isaac VVitbcoi. who recently succeeded his father as leader of the tribe, with If chiefs and /4 xoUowers, voluntarily surrendered at Berseba. Hendrik. -chief of Veldtschoondragen tribe, has also surrendered OPENING OF THE GERMAN ■PARLIAMENT. BERLIN, November 29. _ The Kaiser, in opening the Reichstag, declared that- Germany's relations" with all tne Powers were correct. With most- good feelmg he welcomed the highly gifted Japanese people to the ranks of the great Powers. He expressed the liveliest sympathy with the Czar's efforts to effect a new arrangement of Russia's domestic affairs... . ■. . The- German Press imply that- Britain was the Power the Kaiser meant'when alluding to "correct relations." . LONDON, November 29. The " Times" says there is no need for alarm, umd that the. Kaisers object is to find money for his new naval programme. j