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Waikato Argus, Volume XV, Issue 6018, 15 July 1903, Page 2

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BRITAIN AND AMERICA. Washington, July 13. President jßoosevj-lt has replied to King Edward as follows :—' I thank you most cordially for your kind message, and I Eincerely and gratefully appreciate the courtesies which the officers of the fleet received at the hands of Your Majesty and the English people.' London, July 13. The American squadron was to-day inspected by H.K.H. the Prince of Wales. Mr Choate, the United States Ambassador in London, speaking at a banquet at which the officers of the squadron weie the especial guests, suggested that as a mark of reconciliation between Great Britain and America, and a sign of mutual effection, Washington's statute should be erected in London, and that of Queen Victoria in Washington. SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown, July 14. Botha, interviewed, said the English criticisms ou the Heidelberg speeches was unjust. The Boers' ideal was to see South Africa one great white nation, all pulling together. He admitted Lord Milner's disinterested public-spiritedness, but his despotism, even if wise, was still despotism. Since Lord Milner had exercised a controlling influence in affairs he apparently mistrusted everyone It was useless for a representative of the Boers to join the Legislative Council to relieve Loid Milner of part of his responsibility. OBITUARY, Ottawa, July 13. The Hon. John D. Armour, Chief Justice of Ontario, and one of the British Commissioners on the Alaskan boundary question, is dead. London. July 13. Mr William Ernest Henley, the poet critic and the somewhat censorious biographer of Robert Lsuis Stevenson, has died in his fifty-fourth 3 ear.

NEW CALEDONIA. London, July 13. The Consolidated Nickel Mines Company, with a capital of £400,000 in one pound shares, has been formed to acquire nickel properties in New Caledonia. The purchase price is £141,000. and the company is issuing 150,000 shares al; par. AUSTEALIAN BLUEJACKETS. London, July 13. The Spectator declares that the local tracing of 1600 Australian bluejackets would teach the people of the colonies the vast importance of sea power as the hiring of seamen by subsidies never could. SOMALILAND. London, July 13. Mr Caly, the Daily Telegraph's correspondent in Somaliland, states that General Manring's force is returning to the coast, leaving garrisons at Damot and Bohotle. THE OUTRAGES ON JEWS. St. Petersburg, July 13. The Tsar has ordered a fresh and more striugent inquiry into the outrages on Jews at Kishnieff. MISCELLANEOUS. ' New York. July 14, Fifty thousand skilled builders in New York has accepted the employers' terms, abolishing the walking delegate and appointing a joint arbitration Board to settle the dispute. A wind squall caused the collapse of a tent at Denver where SOO Christian Endeavourers were holding a meeting. In the panic which followed 20 were injured. Manila, July 14. The Collector of Customs here excluded under the contract clause a British clerk from joiniug the Chartered bank. It is considered an attempt to oust British and other foreigners by preventing landing of assistants. Cairo, July 14. The plague is increasing at Port Said.