HOME & FOREIGN.

Waikato Argus, Volume XX, Issue 3092, 27 January 1906, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN.

MiIITARY STABLES ON FIRE. London, January 25. The military stables at Willesdeu were destroyed by fire yesterday. Seventy-eight of the horses were destroyed. Two hundred others were liberated from their stalls. They stampeded in the streets, and a pedestrian was galloped over and killed.

THE MONROE DOCTRINE, Washington, January 26

Senator Lodge, in the United States Senate yesterday discussing the Monroe Doctrine, said that the United States ought not to allow any foreign Power to even temporarily occupy any part of the American Continent.

It could not permit any foreign Power to occupy ports in the Caribbenn tSea, which guarded the approaches to the Panama Canal, If San L'omingo were left in its present lad condition the United States might be compelled to take it in order to prevent others from doing so.

THE VALENCIA WRECK. Vancouver, January 25. The bluejackets of H.M.s. Egeria in surf boa's, attempted to save the Valencia’s survivors from the rigring of their vessel, but the rough sea prevented their success. Later figures show that 107 were drowned on the Valencia after accounting for the twenty survivors who were nscued on a raft. CHINESE BOYCOTT. London, January 25 American exports to China have declined by 70 per cent, owing to the boycott, and Australian wheat lias for similar reasons superseded American.