MINOR MATTERS EPITOMISED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3501, 25 March 1905, Page 3

MINOR MATTERS EPITOMISED.

Admiral Diobogatoft's squadron has gone to Port Said. A Bulgarian band surprised eighteen Turkish soldiers near Deraikapu, killing half and wounding the rest. An island of volcanic origin, 4800 yards in circumferance, has emerged to the southwards of the Iwojima Riukiu Archipelago, The Netherlands Government has decided to employ coercion towards Venezuela unless five imprisoned Dutchmen are released. Mr Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, declines to recommend an annual subsidy of £IO,OOO for a national repertory theatre. The “ Daity Mail" states that the police force in India is being reoganised at a cost of a million sterling per annum, to enable it to hold the country in emergency, and release the troops for service at the front. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Mr H. H, Asquith have informed the United Temperance Alliance that it is urgently necessary the Liberals should restore and extend the powers of local licensing authorities, and introduce a time limit. The Berber and Benihasen tribes have disobeyed the summons of the Sultan of Morocco to attend at Fez in order to discuss M. Taiilandier’s proposals. They decline all communications with the French. M. Taillandier desires the establishment of military police in the border districts and economic reforms.