Various Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3626, 20 March 1906, Page 3

Various Items.

London, March 16. The Times’ St.**Petersburg correspondent’s telegrams from Vladivostock intimate that something serious is occurring in Northern Manchuria. Traffic on the Ussuri line has been suspended. The Japanese have been forbidden to come north and the Chinese are reported to be hostile. Mr Asquith, replying to a question, said it was not intended to make Princess Ena any grant from the public funds. The Labour Commoners hope to raise the Parliamentary relief fund for the victims of the Courrieres disaster to £IOOO. Ottawa, March 17. The discussion on Sir John Mac Donnell’s resolution in the Canadian House for an address tc the King deploring the inhuman massacre of the Jews in Russia was adjourned at Sir Wilfred Laurier’s instance on the ground that it was doubtful if a colonial assembly had r the right to advise the Imperial on a matter wholly in ft sphere foreign to their relations. Cadada is increasing the bonus paid to agents for supplying passage tickets to British emigranls from 7s to 20s, Sir Wilfred Laurier has declined a peerage. Tokio, March 17. Lieutenant Kimura, a naval officer of Japan, has invented a wireless telephone. Pekin, March 16. The Dowager Empress of China has contributed 100,000 taels tc the famine fund of Japan. New York, March 17. An American syndicate ha? offered to construct, at its own cost, the Kansk-Alaska tunnel railway in return for a strip of land along the entire railway for industrial purposes. The offer is viewed more favourably at St. Petersburg than formerly. The syndicate professes its readiness to find fifty-four millions sterling for the enterprise.