HOME & FOREIGN.

Waikato Argus, Volume XIX, Issue 3028, 8 November 1905, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN.

GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA. Pekin, November 6 Tiie port of Hai-chow, near the Yangtse River, has been opened to foreign trade under British and American pressure, in order to prevent Germany’s obtaining exclusive rights. The Colonial Secretary (Mr Lyttelton), in reply to Mr J. H. Lockhart, ihe British Commissioner at Wei-hai-wei, says that Groat Britain does not consider that the result of the war affects the tenure of Wei-hai-wei.

CURSE OP CENTRAL AFRICA. Brussels, November 6.

The report of the Belgian Commission appointed to inquire into the atrocities in the Congo Free State practically whitewashes the Belgian officials there. The outrages are attributed to the native assistants of the Belgians, who exceeded their authority. The mutilation of corpses is a native custom, and the whites had never punished by mutilating living natives. Various administrative reforms are recommended. MUTINY ON THE GAEL. Paris, November 6 The Maritime Court at Marseilles has sentenced the boatswain and the chief engineer of the Gael to ten months’ imprisonment, the boatswain’s mate to live mouths, and thirteen seamen to three months, for refusing to obey orders at Melbourne. The seamen’s congress at Cette demands their liberation on the ground that the Gael was unseaworthy. NEW LORD RECTORS. London, November 6, The Eight Hon. R. B. Haldane, M.P. (Liberal) has been elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, while Mr H. H. Asquith, M.P., has been elected Lord Rector of Glasgow by SG6 votes against Goo polled by the Marquis of Linlithgow (formerly Earl of Hopetouu). INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. London, November 7 Speaking at the Junior Constitutional Club Lord Lansdowne stated that neither in the alliance with Japan nor in the frank understanding with France was there any desire to encroach on others’ rights and privileges. ASIATIC IMMIGRATION. London, November 7 Reuter contradicts a statement which originated in Australia to the effect that Lord Lyttelton, referring to the Asiatic clauses in the West Australian Factory Act, hud written in a peremptory tone. CRETAN REBELLION. Athens, November G. The Cretan insurrection, which recently necessitated the landing of an international force, has been suppressed, and the insurgents have surrendered. FRANCE AND THE VATICAN. Constantinople, November 6 At the instance of the Vatican, the Superior Franciscan missions at Constantinople have renounced French* protection, preferring Italian. GERMAN EXTENSION. Paris, November G. L’Aurore says that Germany intends first to obtain economic possession of Antwerp, in Belgium, and Rotterdam, in Holland, before annexing them. GERMANY’S PREPARATIONS, Berlin, November G The German Government has decided lo build a new naval base on the North Sea, and to widen the Kiel, Canal.