BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12402, 16 January 1905, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, January 13. An Anglo-Austro-Hungarian treaty of arbitration lias beeoi signed in. London. The Milo End ©lection resulted— Harry Lawson (Conservative) 2138, Strans (Liberal) 2060. Lawson'a advocacy of alienst' restrictions was the chief cause of tho victory. Sir Thomas Lipton's storo at Glasgow has baen burnt. Tho damage is estimated at £30,000. A deputation representing 200 manufacturers of proprietary medicines protested to thte Hon. W. P. R-eeves against the regulations of Una New Zealand Govemnienti requiring the disclosure of contents of patent medicines. They contended that such a regulation was ultra vires, and asked for its withdrawal, as complianoa with it was impossible. Mr. Balfour, replying to the Association of Commercial Men, promised to carefully consider steps to secure the abolition of foreign shipping bounties or measures to counteract their effect.

Tho British South Africa Company's resident engineer describes the alluvial deposits in "Victoria, Mashomaland, as patchy, chiefly shed gold. Probably the uncrants secured tlhe bulk.

Th!e Japanese exports for 1903 increased 10 por cent, and imports 17 per cent.

CAPETOWN, January 13. The Transvaal Native Affairs Committee report no hope of political federation in South Africa while the native franchise remains an tlhe presemb chaotic condition. They suggest oap3 natives should not ba allowed to vote in tho Federal Parliament, and should only be allowed six representatives in the State Parliament.