BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 23 March 1910, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

| PEM PRESS ASSOCIATION,—COPYRIGHT ] ANOTHER BUDDA DISCOVERY. CALCUTTA, March 22.—Cousins, superintendent of archeology at Bombay, explored mounds forty miles east of Hardarabad, containing Buddhist Mona.stries. He excavated a shrine, and found a crystal bottle, containing a silver casket, enclosing a golden cylinder, whore in was a gold cup, with fargments of human ash, evidently one of the nine portions fi Gautama Budda’s remains. GERMAN SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AMERICA. BERLIN, March 22.—Herr Dewalthausen, lately German Minister at Buenos Ayres, has given the Kaiser £lO,000 to promote German schools in the Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. THE BATTLE OF THE TARIFFS. NEW YORK, March 22.—The American Journal of Commerce foreshadows a tariff settlement on the basis of small concessions on Canada’s part, America granting the Payne minimum tariff with mutual promises, that negotiations will be undertaken towards the conclusion of the reciprocity agreement. A MUCH MARRIED MAN. NEW YORK, March22.—The man Zimmerman, who married 24 women since 1872, was sentenced to five years imprisonment at Brooklyn on a charge of perjury for swearing he was not married in connection with the marriage license for the twenty-fourth marriage.

THE KING’S HEALTH. LONDON, March -22.—King Edward took a motor rido after spending a week indoors. AVIATION. BERLIN, March 21.—Fourteen German airships are in commission and nine are being constructed. PARIS, March 2.—A Paris firm is supplying a Lucerne (Switzerland) Coy. with two dirigible airships for tourist service round the Righi, Mount Pilate us and Lake Lucerne. LONDON, March 22.—Fifty aeroplanes were sold at the Olympia Exhibition. The total price obtained was £30,000. THE NESBITT TRAGEDY. LONDON, March 21.—The examination of the bullets in Nesbitt’s body and in the compartment of the railway carriage shows that two revolvers were used. John Alexander Dickman, ex-colliery secretary, has been arrested in connection with the Nesbitt murder. Dickman admits he travelled in the some train. BIG FIRE IN JAPAN. TOKIO, March 22.—A fire at Yokohama destroyed 500 houses and rendered 3000 people homeless.

ITALIAN CABINET RESIGNS. ROME, Marcli 22.—The Italian Cabinet forseeing their defeat on the maritime question, have resigned. SCENE IN HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT. VIENNA, March 21.—A decree dissolving the Hungarian Parliament led to a tumult, the Opposition declaring the Act an unconstitutional one. A deputy threw a heavy book at the Premier and injured him. Another hurled an ink pot which severely wounded the Minister of Agriculture. THE UNREST IN GREECE. ATHENS, March 21.—The unrest in Thesaly, which is due to the peasants being practically in a state of serfdom and to the action of the Military League, culminated in the peasants near Larissa attacking a train. A detachment of troops in the train fired a volley, killing five and wounding fifteen. Numerous meetings of -armed peasants have been held at Kardieza and elsewhere. MUNICIPAL ECONOMY. NEW YORK, March 21.—The municipal pay roll for February shows a saving equivalent to a million and a quarter sterling per annum.

EXTENSIVE JEWELLERY ROBBERIES. . BRUSSELS, March 21.—Burglars robbed ResseTs shop of jewels worth £6OOO. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 21. Burglars robbed the palace of the heir of the Turkish Throne of 37,000 francs worth of jewellery. THE KIEL DOCKYARDS. BERLIN, March 21.—Workmen at Kiel dockyards who received notice’ of dismissal, have been transferred to the Vulcan works at Hamburg. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA LONDON, March 21.—Though the New York and Albany conference is reported rosultless, friendly negotiations continue with a view of arriving at a limited reciprocity agreement.