London.

Manawatu Herald, 2 March 1899, Page 2

London.

THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. New-; is to band that the bubonic p'agne has broken out at Jeddab, an \rabian seaport town aituatpd on the R»d S p a, 65 miles west of Mecca. A CABLE DIFFICULTY. Great Britain supports the Eastern TMegraph Company's protest against the concession to the Germans in ay ing the Kastendji-Conafcantinople oible. HOME TAXES. In connection with the exppcfed Budget dt-fioit, Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Oxford, advocated taxainn on ground values. The Times, in a leading articlp, urgfd the extension of indirect taxa Mnn, including a duty of a shilling p r quarter on corn, and a half D nny per lb on sugar. The latter, fch 1 Times hf-lieves, would yield six iillion« yearly. MR CHAMBERLAIN RECOVERING. The R : sht Hon. J. Chamberlain, 8 cr-tary of State for the Co!oni»>-, i< recovering from the a'tick <f i->fln<>nza latply rppnrt"d, THE POPE'S PRESENCE CRITICISED. Th D<i'y New-% in nn article on tho Cz-ii'.-* disarmament pchemes, siv-» th^ idpa nf inviting the Popp, wh ii Hn entirely ppi ritual pprron «g \ *o thp Conf' j ienop is novel and ir itional. If f hp Ppe is invited. vehy n f >t ibe Archbishop of Canter h-iry ? A GRECIAN PATRIOT. M. Skugroa, a Greek banker, hap biqupßihtd to the nation thirty ni lion dratthmai (£1,200.000), h*. iil>-9 making large bequests to tbe signing dynasty.