BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13290, 20 May 1907, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Assoeiation-Bv Telegraph-'J :>\>y ..gut JAPAN AND MANCHURIA. LONDON. May 17.

Dr Morrison, the " Times " correspondent ax, Pekin, says that Japan's negation of ihe "• opan door" and equality of opportunity in Manchuria and iier reluctance to agree with England rejecting trade marks in China is wearing out the patience of merchants in the Far East. BELGIUM AND THE CONGO. .Sir Edward Grey, speaking in the debate on the Congo administration, said that Belgian annexation with real, not nominal, responsibility, would be a great r,ain, but it- was impossible to wait indefinitely. If the Belgian solution collapsed, the question would baeome an international one. The debate showed Britain's willingness to help Belgium by moral support, if she was seriously desirous of the termination of the abuses. A VALUABLE ESTATE.

Ihe estate of the late Mr John Tinline, of Nelson, New Zealand, in the United Kingdom, has been valued for probate ab £88,402.

CORRUPTION IN HONGKONG.

HONGKONG, May 17.

Widespread corruption has been revealed among the subordinates administering the sanitary laws of Hongkong. The ActingGovernor denounced tha conduct as unworthy of the English name.

ILLEGAL RAILWAY REBATES. NEW YORK, May 17.

The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company confessed to receiving rebates on coffee* shipments, and was fined £4OOO. J