Foreign Notes.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3627, 22 March 1906, Page 3

Foreign Notes.

London, March 19.

The murderers of Dr Stewart, who was recently eaten by cannibals in Nigeria, have been severely punished. Many were killed.

New York, March 19.

The United States Steel Trust proposes to open works in Ontario, Canada, at a cost of fifteen million sterling. Obituary—Johann Most, the notorious American anarchist.

The New York water supply scheme, including the huge Croton dam, has been completed after fourteen years’ work, at a cost of a million and a half sterling. Capetown, March 19.

The advocates of the importation of Indian coolies for South Africa proposes to employ them in railway construction, thus releasing the Kaffirs for work in the mines.

The decision of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal, in May, 1904, redressed the grievances emphasized hy the status of Indians in the Transvaal, when the importation was mooted in 1903.

London, March 19.

London is preparing to welcome 600 Japanese officers and sailors, who are taking the new battleships Kashima and Katori from Newcastle and Borrow-on-Furness,

Miss Amy Castles made a successful! debut in the oratorio Redemption ” at Bristol. London, March 19. An earthquake at Kagi, Formosa, killed hundreds. Extensive land slides and floods at Rio Janeiro killed and injured seventy.

Madrid, March 19,

Germany insists that the admission of the Franco-Spanish claim to police Casa Blanca would amount to the complete adandonment of the international principle, and would practically mean allowing the Tunisification of Morocco.

Paris, March 19,

Forty thousand French miners have struck, refusing a 10 per cent rise.

London, March 19

The British South Africa Company’s reports on the year ending March, 1905, that the expenditure was ,£898,748, and the revenue £641,342, For the year ending with the present mouth the expenditure is estimated at £772,655 and the revenue £681,484.

The Winchester Cathedral is gravely endangered owing to the subsidence of the foundations. A sum of £IOO,OOO will be required to effect repairs. Berlin , March 19.

Buksahl, a sergeant in the German Array, received seven months’ imprisonment and was degraded at Mulheim for assaulting recruits with the butt of a rifle, striking their frost-bitten hands with a bayonet and torturing them with knee drill. lie pleaded zeal in the service as an excuse.