BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVIII, Issue 12363, 1 December 1904, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association —Copyright Received November 30, 8.G6 a.m. LONDON, November 29. Tin© Board of Trade admits that the returns Showing the confectionery exported for the first ton months of 1904, was a hundred thousand cwt. too much.

Burglars stunned and gagged Colonel Stockwe-W, jeweller, of Clerkenwell road, and stole £5000 worth of jewellery. ■Stock-ell was found unoottscious 41 ho-.us after having bein tied toa pillar in his stoop. Mr. Balfour, at the Primrose League banquet at the Hotel Cecil, delivered a v'lgcrous '.vpeech on tho future that be'llaniged to Unionists, contrasting the Unionist achievements wHIh the profession of pkragh&rs of sand. The latter had not found time .to construct a policy, and never made any suggestion calculated -to -cement the Empire or advance -social reform-, whereof they had i:et*n discoursing for half a century. ST. PETERSBURG, November 29. Tho Czar rejected the Zemsbovs' <!e----mamd for a constitution and an Assembly, of Zemstovs. BELGRADE, November 29. Ex-Queen Natalie lias presented Servia with King Milan's and King Alexander's library. The col'iections are valued at £46,000 and £80,000 respectively. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 29. The Sulifcain has yielded on the question of tho sal© ©f B:!bleo. LONDON, November 29. In connection with the Royal Commission, Mr. Balfour proposes that the Lords' docis'tom be r-eypeoted, and that the Free Church bo allowed -only such property and funds as they are able to administer during the suspension of tho litfgation, pend.'mg an inquiry, and the restoration -of the property forcibly seized. Tina Free Church has seized Lewis j Church. ■ - j

WASHINGTON, November 29. Russia, has accepted the principle of a Treaty of A rbitiratkm with the United. States.

BERLIN, November 29. A B',ll in the Rciiohsliag provides for the gradual inorea.se of the army on a peaoa footing to 505,839. Tbo preamble meat-ions that tha French army exceeds tihat of Germamy, though the population is -twenty mlliori. liess. Count V'On Bulow, interviewed, expressed admiration and friendship for Britain, and repudiated the idea of a naval war with Britain, which would be a monstrous crime.