BRITISH AND FOREIGN

West Coast Times, Issue 10428, 5 December 1896, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

• ; : . {: London, Dec 3 A , , A modus vivendl has, been arr/ved.a|rbe-. tween the London and India Dock Company's' joint committee and the P- & 0. Coy in regard to dock charges. The project of the P. & (X Coy ,f or building their own wharves in the Thames is therefore shelved. , , Obituary— Bishop Tufnell. ■ In the course of a speech before the British Empire League the Duke of Devonshire said the. Government attached the highest importance to the renewal of the naval agreement with Australia, as being . a step towards' • a .general imperial defence. He hoped that a conference would be held in London shortly to discuss the whole question, when the colonies should not hesitate to undertake a very moderate share of the expenses allotteH them. „ . , Zanzibar, Dec 3. In an engagement between ,the Italians and Somalia, in which the Italian Consul Celchi was killed, the former made a heroic defence and lost fourteen' of their men and the Somalis eighteen. ..... .-.-. St Johns,- Dec 3. The Newfoundland Government ha* taken over'the control of railways iff the' island. They had hitherto been in private hands. - \ Berlin, Dec 4. Two press men are being tried in. the Berlin Court , on a,, charge of , , .Üb'eiliqg Count Eurtoberg, Baron Marschall Von Biebershein, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Prince Hohenlohe, Chancellor. „The libel was contained in an article, on ( the Czar's speech at his reception at Breslau* which alleged Eulenberg was acting in the interest of England, and had put forwa.rd a false version of the Czar's sentiment. .. . . Cairo, Dec 3, Lord Cfomer has informed the Khedive that Great Britain will advance half, a million towards the cost of the Soudan, expedition. . ,„,. ...