News of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XV, 11 April 1903, Page 995

News of the Week

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The Russian navy has ordered 110,000 tons of Northumberland steam coal. Mr. Chamberlain characterises it as a most important expedition and admirably executed. Floods on the Mississippi have caused five millions sterling of damage to the cotton plantations. It is officially announced that the King and Queen will visit Ireland in the course of July or August. Owing to cheapness of carriage, German troops are being sent to China over the Siberian railway. The Finns have purchased 300.000 acres in Michigan, where they will settle as immigrants. The “Daily Express” states that the King has entered a horse for the £ 10,000 at St. Louis World’s Fair. The “Times” Marconigram messages from New York have been sanctioned in order to enable the Postmaster-General to test the system. Count von Bulow, the German Chancellor, had a long interview with Count Prenetti, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Rome. It is proposed by the friends and admirers of the late Bishop Abrahams to create a scholarship to his memory at >Selwyn College, Cambridge. The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Company for last year shows a debit balance of £25,607, which is brought forward. A severe earthquake occurred on March 30 in Jerusalem, and, though the damage done w.as slight, the inhabitants were panic stricken. Owing to the magistrates continuing their refusal to enforce the conscription regulations the Tsar has removed the Mayors of 11 Finnish towns. The Standard Oil and other companies’ storage tanks at Calcutta have been burned, involving damage to the value of four- thousand lakhs of rupees. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury states that the deficit to be met by the signatories of ohe Pacific cable agreement during the coming year is estimated at £ 95,000. The Canadian House of Commons, by a majority of 61, adopted the resolution moved by Mr Costigan, expressing a hope that the Irish land question would be permanently settled. The War Office is inviting tenders for 100,0001 b of compressed corned mutton in 21b, and 100,0001 b in lib tins. Tenders are returnable on July 29, in order to enable colonials to compete. Sir Thomas Lipton is greatly pleased at the trial of Shamrock 111. on the Clyde. The yacht proved herself exceedingly smart in stays and outsailed Shamrock I. A balloon was being inflated at BudaPesth when it broke away, carrying with it three aeronauts, who fell to the ground. Two were killed and one seriously injured. Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne officially confirmed the statement that the Sultan had intimated that the Turkish troops had been withdrawn from the Aden Hinterland. The Truscan Copper Company is suing the Bewick Morning Company mining engineers for libel alleged to be contained in a report on the property. The claim is for half a million in damages. Count Zborowski, a well-known sportsman, was killed while motor-racing at Nice. Zborowski's mechanician was also killed. The motor ran full tilt against a roek, going at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Sir William Hart Dyke is to introduce ft bill in the House of Commons io restrict the discretion of justices in cancelling publicans’ licenses pending the

arrangement of a scheme of compensation. In the House of Commons Mi Brodr rick, Secretary for War, stated that tha Court of Inquiry into the circumstances of Lord Methuen’s capture by the Boers entirely absolved Lord Methuen from responsibility. Archbishop Walsh, addressing a meeting in Dublin, protested against describing the twelve million proposed to be advanced under the Irish Land Bill as an English gift to the Irish people, since Ireland provides the greater part of the money. ; The Rev. W. Barr has taken a large party of immigrants to Canada. This is the first part of a scheme to settle sixty townships of Saskatchewan. The move has already resulted in the transferring of half a million sterling to the Canadian banks. The New York correspondent of the “Times” reports that the labor.r situation in the United States is grave. Daily strikes are threatened at every port. The same organ states that the chief cause of this state of affairs is th employment of non-union men and boys. Reuter’s Agency states that Admiral Dewey, in the course of an interview in New York, declared that Americans ought to give Great Britain more credit for real friendship. Britain, he said, was America’s best and safest friend and her largest customer. Thirty-six magazines for the storage of corn have been erected throughout Germany at a cost of half-a-million sterling to render farmers independent of the fluctuations of the markets. The Government advances money against corn. The House of Commons, by 187 to 80, approved of the Government’s proposal for a joint Lords and Commons Committee to consider the need of legislative powers to regulate municipal trading. Mr John Burns led the opposition to the proposal. After Marcel Provost, the French novelist, had been elected president of the Societe des Belles Lettres, Mademoiselle Fouret., the prototype of the heroine of his “Lettres de Femme,” shot at him twice in the street, to call attention to the fact that he abandoned her. The novelist declined to prosecute. As an evident rejoinder to Admiral Dewey’s assertions of American naval superiority over Germany, Count. Keventlow has declared at Berlin that the American naval manoeuvres showed immaturity and bad shooting, while the moral personnel of the navy was very low. Sir F. Luga rd has cabled to Mr. Chamberlain that Sokoto was occupied on March 15 after a feeble resistance. The Sultan of Sokoto and his chiefs fled, but many of the latter returned. He adds that the expeditionary force is now disbanding. Mr Pierpont Morgan’s big Trust Company, officially known as the International Mercantile Marine Company, has filed at Trsnton a proposed amendment to the original charter enabling it to sell or hire its vessels to America or to any other Government for any purpose. Mr Akers Douglas, the Home Secretary, stated in the House of Commons that the new regulations for the examination of dead bodies prior to cremation were so searching that, he believed there would be more likelihood of detecting crimes similar to the Klosowski poisoaing cases than heretofore.

At the instance of Sir Robt. Finlay, the Attorney-General, and with a view to maturing a scheme for a great school in London where there shall be systematic teaching in all branches of law administration within? the Empire, Mr Justice Farwell has suspended the application for £ 100,000 arising from the sale of New Inn and Clifford’s Inn.