News of the Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XI, 14 March 1903, Page 717

News of the Week.

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A blizzard has destioyed great numbers of cattle in Texas and Arizona. The Motor Race Bill was read a third time in the House of Lords.

The Columbian tariff of import duties has been doubled.

Mr Hofmeyer’s pacific appeals to the Bond party have been gazetted.

Mr Carnegie has given £ 200,000 sterling to Princeton University, U.S.A.

It is expected that King Edward will meet President Loubet in Paris, when proceeding to the Riviera in April.

The ratifications of the Alaska Boundary Treaty have been exchanged at Washington.

Prince Luise’s parents received her at Lindau. She return® Giron’s letters and telegrams unopened. The breach is final.

The M.C.C. Committee has decided to submit the proposal of widening the wickets to a general meeting in May. Reuter’s Agency states that the Governor of Kez reports that the Moorish pretender has been captured.

As a result of the recent gale, underground telegraphy is being extended to the Midland counties, Scotland, and the East Coast.

The Rev Reginald John Campbell, pastor of the Union Church at Brighton, has succeeded Dr Parker in the pastorate of the City Temple.

The London Chamber of Commerce has convened a conference with the object of calling Lord Lansdowne’s attention to the dissatisfaction created by the new German tariff.

The “Novoe Vremya” states that the British Consul at Muscat has offered the Sultan of Oman a Brilish naval detachment if he found himself unable to maintain order in the town of Matrah.

The Lambeth Magistrate sentenced nine collectors walking with an unemployed procession to one day’s imprisonment on charges of street-begging, and threatened them with a month’s imprisonment if again convicted.

Many chambers of agriculture and farmers’ clubs in Great Britain have adopted resolutions in favour of appointing a Royal Commission to inquire into the question of food supplies in war t i me.

A bill introduced in the House of Commons by Mr Sloan, member for Belfast South, for closing public-houses in Ireland at nine o’clock on Saturday nights, has been read a second time by 101 to 76.

The Government of the Dominion of Canada is inviting tenders—stating the subsidy required—for a British-owned Atlantic service of vessels of 18 and 21 knots, the vessels not to call at any foreign ports.

The “Standard’s” Constantinople correspondent has elicited in an interview with the Grand Vizier that the Porte’s intention is to execute the reforms in Macedonia to the letter, time atone being needed. The best and most energetic functionaries will be selected for the whole of Macedonia.

According to the “New York Herald” President Roosevelt’s Commission of Arbitration on the late anthracite coal strike awards 10 per cent, increase of wages and other advantages. It indirectly recognises the Miners’ Union and condemns the boycotting of nonUnionists. The duration of the verdict is three years.

Germany is much perturbed by 'American capitalists offering to construct a land-grant railway from Dcsterro and Santa Catherina in Brazil to the Argentine frontier, blighting the hopes of a great German settlement in Brazil.

Two thousand workmen at the Kaysalope and other collieries at Blaenavon, in Monmouthshire, have struck because of not being allowed to finish work

earlier in the day. They allege that in consequence of the refusal they get wet through.

President Roosevelt's prompt renomination of Dr. Krum, Negro Collector of Customs, at Charleston, is understood to be intended as an incentive to the Senate to decide the principle whether colour shall bar selection for Federal office.

The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 11 per cent, and has added £85,000 to the reserve fund, £14,000 to the premises account, and set aside £ 15,000. One hundred and forty-two pounds will be distributed as a bonus to the staff. Carried forward, £ 14,648.

Dr Seharlich. presiding at a meeting of the Hanseatie Colonial Society, declared that Pan-German bombast had imperilled German interests- and exei'ced suspicion, especially in regard to Brazil, where the Government was refusing assistance formerly promised to German trade.

General Booth proposes the starting of international social science university establishments at London and New York, with bianehes at Melbourne, Toronto, Berlin and Paris, with the object of training thousands of Salvationists as skilled rescuers of human beings from destitution and crime.

In the House of Commons Mr Balfour, in reply to a question, said that the Admiralty had carefully coiesidered both the Chilian and the 2\rgentine battleships offered for sale, but found them unsuitable for our purposes, and it was not, therefore, considered advisable to complete the purchase.

News has been received that the robber bands, known as ladrones, had surprised and captured the town of Ons, in the province of Albay. on Luzon, in the Philippine Islands, and killed two and captured 15 of the constabulary. Several companies of American scouts have been sent to restore order.

Count Von Bulow has drawn the Curia’s attention to Bishop Treves’s manifesto refusing absolution to parents for sending their daughter to the Prussian Government’s High School, though fourteen of the teachers were Catholic, and eight Protestant. The Chancellor claimed that the States acting impartially deserved reciprocity. The House of Commons agreed to a resolution submitted by Mr. R. J. Price, member for Norfolk East, affirming the desirability of borough and district councils regulating the closing of shops, and the limiting of hours of shop labour. The Government sympathised with the proposal, though it was stated that it would be impossible to legislate thereon this session. t

In the House of Commons Mr Finlay, Attorney-General, promised to introduce a bill at the earliest opportunity relating to public companies’ fradulent bal-ance-sheets. Under the Aet of 1861 the prosecution must prove that these were intended to defraud shareholders or creditors, but the Jaw is silent as regards attempts to induce the outside public to invest.

The French Court of Appeal has ordered the Good Shepherd Convent at Nancy to pay Mademoiselle Leeoanet, an orphan inmate, £4OO compensation for detention during many years, and overwork, resulting in partial blindness. The Bishop of Nancy stated that under the pretext of charity the sisterhood treated the inmates worse than anv outside sweater.

M. Koloman Szell, the Hungarian Premier, referring to the Balkan crisis, assured the Diet that the reforms demanded harmonised with the Austro-Russian agreement of 1897, respecting the Balkan status quo, and added that if the revolutionists persisted in their efforts, Turkey’s measures to repress them would not be impeded.

A preliminary mobilisation of the Norwegian forces is now proceeding. It is declared not to be due to a move-

ment for secesson from the compact between Norway and Sweden, but that it is connected with a common defensive movement, they fearing a Russian attack after the secret note wherein last year Russia demanded the alliance or cession of part of Noraland.

In the House of Commons Mr Brodrick explained that the attention of Lord Roberts had been privately called to the “ragging” of a public school team of subalterns of the Grenadier Guards by order of an unofficial oourtmartial. Lord Roberts directed an inquiry to be held, at which Lieut.-Colonel Kinloch. Commandant of the First Battalion of the regiment, attended. Colonel Kinloch was compulsorily retired because he was unaware of the irregularities in the regiment.