CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5257, 13 May 1895, Page 3

CITY EDITION. Latest Telegrams BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

ler- •- «8. LBF ELVCTRIO TBLHaaAPB—COPYBiaBT,'] r «8 £SPKCIAL TO PBEBS ASSOCIATION.]] • MILITARY. ] ® r LONDON, Mat 10. w I Major Penno proceeds to India as ad ' second in command of the "Welsh an regiment, ad BEER TAX. Mat 11. a Tli© beer tax baa been passed by a lp majority of twenty-four. as J DIRECT TRADE WITH he \ MANCHESTER. Q £ The Manchester Committee of Merchants and Manufacturers is ie negotiating with the Gulf line of ie steamers for the despatch of steamers re direct from Australia to Manchester, re beginning m October. ■® COLONIAL CHEESE 4 ! In the Hou9e of Commons Sir Alex. Fuller Acland Hood, M.P. for Wolliugfcon, has given notice to introduce a Bill providing for the extension of the Merchandise Marks Act to foreign and colonial chceee. • THE PREMIER. Mat 12. Lord Rosebery is cruising in the Channel under medical advice. FROZEN Mi- 1 AT IN THE ARMY. Mr Bannerman, Secretary of the War Department, has admitted that the use of frozen meat in the army is due to the economy initiated in 1890, but was not prepared to Bay anything as to the quality. LORD HOPETOUN AT HOME. Lord Hopetoun was received on his arrival at Edinburgh with ringing cheers from the people in the streets" and cries of " welcome home." Re plying to an address from his tenantry, he attributed any snccess he had met with in Australia to the cordial co operation and hearty goodwill of the colonists. The gentleraeu of his county also intended to present the ex Governor with an address. ' DUTY ON FROZRN MEAT. CAPETOWN, Mat 10. Referring to the proposed duty on frozen meat, Mr Cecil Rhodes said that he favoured protecting the products of the soil of the colony, but was opposed to protecting manufactures. NEWFOUNDLAND. OTTAWA. Mat 12. The Hon G. Foster, Minister of Finance, states that Newfoundland has agreed to union with the Dominion. . TAXATION IN FRANCE. PAEIS, Mat 12. The French religions orders are intensely excited and unable to decide on their attitudeas to the taxation of bishops, and are disputing it. The' cardinal priests, the bishops and a hundred and fifty thousand monks are affected by it. Bishop Puget urges that the tax should be paid under protest, as a refusal means war against the State and a casua belli between France and the Vatican. FRENCH POLITICS. M. Ribot, speaking at the opening of the Bordeaux Exhibition, said the recent joint action in the far East would further knit together Russia and France, whose alliance would be an additional guarantee of peace to the world. He indicated the necessity for further taxation, " including a graduated tax on domestic eerrante. THE BEHRING SEA AWARD. YICTOfcIA (8.C.) Mat 12. The Government complains that the United States has not yet paid the Behring Sea award, and that the fishermen are therefore practically penniless, and unable to refit for the present season.