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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42793, 19 October 1905, Page 3

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• # London, Yesterday. King Edward gave audience to re.presentatives of the Paris Municipal Council visiting London and said Lord Lansdowne in the middle of Jnne, verbally informed Metternich, the German Ambassador, that Britain jjjwould actively support France if provoked a Eranco Gorman war, and added he did not anticipate any aggression.^ The Cruiser Powerful which replaces the Euryalus flagship on the Austra lian station has sailed. The steamer Glacucus reports she spoke the Pioneer towing the Pyramus, enroute .for Australia j< both are expected at Perim to-day. Lord Roberts’ appeal for funds to encourage rifle shooting only pro duced £lOl7, owing to serious lack of cavalry subalterns. The times says the hostility displayed by the liberal leaders towards preferential arrangements is hardly likely to encourage colonial premiers to free speaKing except through sheer provocative and will have the effect to treat the question as a foregone inimitable conclusion which absolutely

excludes the idea of a compromise for great imperial ends, and says it is not the way to approach a fair discussion Deaken’s latest deliverance is the right way to solve the question of reciprocity with the Empire. Tokio, yesterday. The Japanese refloated theißussi an battleship Polieda, and the torpedo boat Gaidansk. Madrid, Yesterday. A large number of boxes of cut flowers, to Barcelona and Madrid, in connection with President Loubet’s forthcoming visit, contained packets oE dynamite. The consignee was arrested. The police are convinced it was a plot against President Loubet and King Alfonso. Capetown, Yesterday. The Cape Argus has interviewed British subjects on the late transport raiders in German South-west Africa, who allege eight women and six children, some aged five, were shot as spies The woman not asking for mercy were cruelly treated and found relief in in death. Bucharest, Yesterday. King Charles, of Roumania, has prouiised ameliorating istatues to the Jews residing in, Roumania. Washington, Yesterday. The Government has accepted tbo Czar’s invitation for a second Hagm Conference. . Morocco, Yesterday, The Anjera tribe, under a bro'her to.the brandit Yalunte, captured Cap tain Crowther and Lieut Hatton, o'" the Kdynl Marines, while returning to the Centa from the ship for assistance The Anjeras-offer to exchange the prisoners for Yalunte at Baogier New York, Yesterday The United States ml Newfound land are drifting into a serious die agreement over the intepretatioa of fishery rights.