HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8277, 19 October 1905, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Lord Roberts' appeal for funds to encourage rifle shooting has only produced £1017.

As a protest against the partition of their province the native Bengal inhabitants spent a clay in universal fasting and mourning. All the bazaars wore closed.

Two hundred and eighty-two Cape, Transvaal and Orangia farmers are emigrating to the Argentine, where they have been alloted six hundred acres each for £250, payable in five years. Tho declare that they are animated by economic and not racial reasons.

The United States and Newfoundland are drifting into a serious disagreement over the interpretation of the fishery rights.

The submarine A 4 (whose crew had such a narrow escape) sank while being towed to dock.

Extraordinary enthusiasm marks the popular attitude in Tokio towards tho AngloJapanese Alliance.

The American immigration authorities have discovered that forty-nine United States and Canadian girls have been sold as white slaves to wealthy Chinese through collecting agencies in Chicago and Shanghai. The price paid was from 500 to 1000 dollars each for the girls, who were nominally engaged as high class servants.

Owing to the serious lack of cavalry subalterns, the Government are offering probationary commissions without the necessity of passing through Sandhurst Military College. Militia candidates are to be granted commissions after two years if they pass the

examination

The British Universities mission in Masai (Equatorial Africa) were warned by two German Benedictine Fathers of an impending native attack, and they fled to the coast at half-an-hour'S notice, walking 120 miles in three days, though they were accompanied by three lady missionaries. They escaped attack, the brunt of the natives' violence falling upon the Benedictine missions, whose Bishop and five companions were killed.

The Japanese have re-floated the Russian battleship Pobieda and the torpedo boat Gardamsk.

Earl Spencer is out of danger,

The King and Queen opened the King's AVay, the new London street, in the presence of a great gathering, including visiting Paris Municipal Council representatives. The cruiser Cambria has sailed for Australia. Repairs to the cruiser Pyramus at Perim will occupy a week. The Pall Mall Gazelle says it is extremely unlikely that tho present Government will summon the Colonial Conference.

Captain Kretzchmar, an ex-German naval officer, travelling from Berlin to Paris by train, was robbed of a cheque for £53,000.

Mr McCurdy, President of the New York Mutual Life Society, irritated at tho severity of his examination by the Insurance Commission, complained of its inquisitorial character and.refused to give evidence.

Earl Cowley will marry, at Colombo, Lady Hartopp, the divorced wife of Sir Chas. Hartopp.

William Boyd and Andrew Carney, belonging to a gang of Australian confidence tricksters, have been sentenced to twenty-one months' imprisonment in London, on a charge of attempting to dissuade Henry South,' an Australian, from prosecuting certain other tricksters.