News of the Week

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XVII, 25 April 1903, Page 1139

News of the Week

There is a slight reappearance of small-pox in several London parishes. Thirty-three per eent. of the immigrants arriving in America are Italians, and 27 per cent. Austro-Hungarians. A gold reef has been struck in the Cloverfield mine at the Rand at a depth of 2997 ft.

The Rand native labour supply has greatly improved, and there is a prospect of recruiting labour in Madagatcar.

A man named Newviggin, a coachman, while suffering from insomnia, murdered his wife and four daughters, and then committed suicide at Dues, Berwickshire.

The Belgian Socialists in Congress resolved to abolish the sale of alcoholic liquors at the Labour Party’s Co-opera-tive Stores.

The Socialist Congress at Bordeaux, by a narrow majority, declined to expel M. Mileraud, one of the leaders of the party, on account of his alleged opportunism.

St. Petersburg newspapers consider the rapprochement bet ween Britain and France, upheld by King Edward’s visit, is a sure guarantee of the peace of Europe.

Japan has undertaken to prohibit the emigration of Japanese to Canada excepting in cases where they are residents of Canada and bona fide merchants and students.

Owing to a largely increased American demand for American cotton a mo .1-

ment is progressing in Lancashire io encourage cotton-growing within the Empire, especially in West Africa.

The Earl of Dunraven estimates that even under the most favourable circumstances the Irish landlords must lose £109,000 annually as a result of the new Land Bill.

The Transvaal Government, after the beginning of June, will cease supplying burghers with rations, implements and stock on credit. The destitute will le offered employment on public works.

The Indian newspapers are protesting against the report once again current of the intended appointment of Mr. Brodriek, the Minister for War, as Viceroy of India.

Extensive claim-pegging has taken place at Heidelberg, Wilgepoort and Klerksdorp, in the Transvaal. Many thousands participated, but the proceedings were orderly.

Before the end of 1903 Russia will have increased her Far Eastern squadron to nine battleships, 11 large and eight small cruisera and 41 torpedo vessels, with three admirals. 823 officers and 15,571 men.

Mr. R. L. Nash, financial editor of the “Sydney Daily Telegraph,” in a column letter published in the “Times,” says Australia’s ability to carry her debt is undoubted, and there is no likelihood of a crisis, though depression is in store.

At Germany’s instance, Jessel Helumth, a lieutenant in the Germany Intelligence Department, has been arrested at San Remo, Northern Italy, for selling to France plans of the German fortifications.

The battleships Prince George, Jupiter, Magnificent, and Mars, under Rear-Admiral the Hon. Curzon Howe, C. 8., G.M.G.. received a cordial welcome on their arrival off the coast of Algeria, where they were sent to take part in the reception of President Loubet.

A representative conference at Dublin resolved, on the motion of the Lord Mayor, to form an institute of commerce and industry, representing the manufacturing and trading interests of four provinces of Ireland. The conference also affirmed the desirability of holding an international exhibition at Dublin.

Ex-President Giover Cleveland, speaking at New York, attacked President Roosevelt’s negro policy and advocated the domination of whites in the South.

He declared that the denial of social equality to the negroes was not the outcome of prejudice, but of racial instinct. The whites in the South were entitled to the utmost consideration and sympathetic fellowship of the North.

The International Agricultural (ongress has been opened in Rome, 2,500 delegates attending. A motion advo. eating the imposition of differential duties by European Powers on products of the United States and all extra European countries was postponed till next Congress to allow closer study of the question. The German delegates approved of the motion, while the Italian and French delegates opposed the differentiation.