BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12907, 22 February 1906, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Prm Anoci&tion—Per. EUctric Telegraph—CopTTyrht. I SENTENCES ON MUTINEERS. ST. PETERSBURG, February- 20. sentences on the Kniuz. Potemkiit mutineers"' range from one year to twenty years' imprisonment. " ," JAPANESE LOAN. TOKIO,. February 21. A.Japanese loan of two hnndred" million yen at 5 per centum, minimum 95, 'lias been issued.. A'RAILWAY CONTRACT. LONDON. February 20. Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, has . placed a contract in England for 10,000 tons of rails at £7 5s a ton landed in Queensland. ATTRACTING POPULATION. The publicity given to Queensland'* newlaws, enabling land to be selected in London, and the liberal concessions in regard to passage, money aie attracting much notice. BRITAIN'S .STEEL INDUSTRY. . ..Britain's, .-output ..of ,_steel .ingot* hist year aggregated 3.839;0C0 tons, an increase of 634,000 tons. The chief improvement was in Scotland, then in Cleveland, Wales;

Received 11.13 p.m.. February 21st, BRITISH KILLED BY FANATICS. LONDON. February 21. Fanatics killed five British officers and a company of mounted men at Sokoto. The High Commissioner for Northern Nigeria is .tending a punitive expedition. CANADIAN ASPIRATIONS. OTTAWA. February 20. Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Premier of Canada, at a university banquet at Toronto, declared that Canada had no grievance in regard to Imperial relations, but if insUJutwus j changed it would be towards union of the j Empire, coupled with autonomy in different j parte. j THE ROYAL TOUR j CALCUTTA. February 20. j Owing to the prevalence <»f cholera- the I Prince of Wales has abandoned his pro- j posed tiger shooting expedition to Ncpaul. j A MARTIAL ADDRESS. BERLIN. February 21. The Minister of the Interior declared imprisonment ut Belgrade, for revealing Lorraine was eternally and indissolubiy connected with Germany, which would defend them with her last soldier. FRANCO-RUSSIAN TREATY. PARIS. February 21. The Franco-Russian ronuuercial trcatv has been ratified. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. President Failieres, in his message lo the Chamber of Dcpntie*. appealed for the co-operation of all Republicans. FRKNCH POLICY IN THE CONGO. Deputy Ronane, sneaking in the French Chamber, severely attacked M. G*ntleV policy in the Congo, declaring that, it had been responsible for the annihilation of twenty thousand natives out of thirty thousand inhabiting that region. THE HUNGARIAN CRISIS. BUDAPEST. February 21. Owing to threats of force ihe Hungarian Deputies have abandoned Wednesdav's proposed meeting.