HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 262, 4 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

GERMAN EAST AFRICA. CAT'ETOWN, Dec. 2. After two days' sharp fighting with the Germans at Sandfontein the Hottentots retired to British territory. DR. BOWIE'S PROPERTY SEIZED. NOW YORK, Dec. 2. The official receivers have seized Dr. Dowie's Zion City property, valued at four millions sterling', at certain creditors' instance, under order of the Federal .Court. ALLEGED CORRUPT GOVERNMENT. CAPETOWN, Dec. 2. Mr Wybergid, Commissioner of Mines in the Transvaal, has resigned, alleging that the i wii'try is being' govered more in the interests of financiers than for the permanent good of the colony. Sir Arthur Lawley has expressed astonishment at the charge. BULGARIA. BELGRADE, TVec. 18. It is persistently reported here that the regicides, dissatisfied with King Peter's coolness towards them, are plotting to compel him to abdicate in Tavour of his sow, at present receiving his military education in Russia, GERMAN BUDGET. BERLIN, Dec. 2. The German Budget for 1904 foreshadows a deficit, which is covered by a loan of ten millions sterling. The China expedition and naval programme are chiefly responsible for the deficit.

ANGLO-AMERICAN FEELING. Rec. 3, 11.25 i> WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Sir Henry Durant, the newly appointed British Minister at Washington, in presenting his credentials to President Roosevelt stated that King Edi.vaid dew,,--. ><> assure him that the friendly relations between the two nations might be maintained and strengthened. President Roosevelt cordially reciprocated, and said he was mindful of the ties of kinship, each sharing the same aspirations of peace and pi-ogress ; btoth trusting to the Almighty. It was only fitting that the two nations should reach a harmonious accord in a:l (|uesl'ions anectiny common interests.

UNIVERSITY BURNED. Rec. 3i 11.15 p.m. OTTAWA, Dec. 3. The Catholic university Iwjre was destroyed by lire. Three hundred students and others escaped unhurt, but seven were injured in jumping! from windows.

LADY BARRISTER REFUSED. Rec. 3, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, Dec' 3. Grey's Inn refused to admit Miss Bertha Cave, who passed the necessary examinations at HuJs'.Viry with six others. The judigfcs, after hearing Miss Ca.ve, decided that it waa not a prt|era(l(ler calling for laidies at the English |bVir, and it was not desirable to cre.ate one,.