BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

West Coast Times, Issue 10437, 16 December 1896, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Dec. 14.

The Sultan promised the Austrian Ambassador he would extend reforms to the whole of the Empire.

The Anglo-American arbitration treaty decides all disputes for five years, including Alaska and excepting Venezuela and Behring Sea.

Citizens of all shades of religion politics in Cork carried a resolution that it is imperative to reduce Imperial taxa~-~ tion. Lord Castletown declared it" was cruel taxation that lost America.

British newspapers are unanimous in the opinion that France is preparing to make a bold bid for the commercial trade of the Australian colonies. '

New York, Dec 14. • In the long distance cyclists tourna^ ment, won by Heales, many of the competitors suffered remarkable privations. The doctors, referring to the contest, declare it to be a sickening exhibition of brutality.

I 3L4. A terrible fafrliity occurred, in ,&§ <% to-day. While an inventor and three of his workmen w<?re experiencing ,with acetylenegas, and in, attempting.^ prevent an explosion, the subsfcnqe exuded and all four were blown to pieces " '*'

Calcutta, Dec. 14.

Three hundred and thirty-one'tnousand seven hundred men are employed. on Indian relief works.

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