BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVIII, Issue 12365, 3 December 1904, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Assooiiatvaa—Copyright*

LONDON, December 2. Tlie extension of the Cape to Cairo raiJway for 350 iniies north of the Zambesi haa been authord&ed.

Th'B Queen has inquired' about and assisted the sufferers by the failure of the Needham Market Penny Bank. The pubiio subscribed £2600, and Edgar Speyer, a banker, added £5700. £5670 will cover tho depositors1' loss1. ; Owing to liabilities connected with the extensive business opt cons, the London and Paris Exchange, Limited, owes an amount roughly estimated at £25,000, to members of the Stock Exchange, and £100,000 to other creditors. In accepting a Royal Commission, the Free Chuirch suggests limiting its scope. The UnJted Presbyterian Church's Kilmtuir Mission (premises at St. Affin, in 'the I&ie of Skye, have been forcibly seized.

NEW YORK, December 1

The- Columbian Government proposes an alternative canal route via the Atra'to and San Juan rivers. ■Chili approver, and. it is expected that Bo'lvia, Brazil, and Argentina wiifl. concur. [The Atrato runs into the Gulf of Mexico closa to where the Isthmus of Panama joins" tho mainland of South America.] LONDON, December'l.

Tho Now York correspondent ot the "Time^"-^,\ss.-.-tli«at.>-^i:esidßpfc^;Roosev6lt favours.,.a'.;tariff revision, .and is moving in tlio matter, .perstiaisiveiy' urging consideration" of tJio subject oh"'purely ocontfmid'grounds.--■•'•- !"■>.'/•,.• ■%.-.■..■ Mr,.,Aß<juithj speaking:at.,Southend, said" iio ddd not objeob to a Redistribution 13 .11 in 1905, if it were accompanied by necessary reforms in tli© francnis©. NEW YORK, December 1. Joseph Lsiter, owner of tbe Zedgleamines, has b:en indicted;.- for bringing armed men inito' the' State, thus vioLating tlie statutes. H-o is Table to- imprisonment for a term cf from on© to five years

ST. PETERSBURG, December 1. Russ'a heartily approves of President Rocti»velt'.s Peace Conference, but suggests that i'c bo postponed until after the war.

The municipailit'ies of St. Petersburg and- Moscow approve cf Mayor Sai-a'fcoff's tmggesfeion asking the Grdveriimerib:to ■convene a, congress of reprosontativts of a.'Jl Russian inuniio'ipaiiities; . . BERNE, Deoeinber 1. . Switzerland has voted in favour of-the popular election of judges .