HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 5 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

TRADE RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

BERLIN, Dec. 3. Count von Bulow, Imperial Chaneellor, read the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the Reichstag. The speech announced that it was expedient to retain at the present time the existing basis of commercial relations with Great Britain, A bill will shortly f>e submitted, continuing, after 1903 the most favoured treatment of British products. Received 4, 1.5 n r BERLIN, Dec. 4. A Bill outlined by Count von Bulow confers favoured treatment on BritisK colonies, apparently including those conceding preference to Britain in moderation. Tho Bill is attributed to a desire not to play into Mr ChaaiifbJjrlJt>.iai *s hands. LABOUR IN AFRICA. CAPETOWN, Dec. 0. The Johannesburg Chamber Of Mines unanimously urged the Uovernmfent td immediately legislate tft provide indentured coloured labour. Mr Wyberg desires the Hand to oppose Chinese labour.' INDIAN VICEROY AT KOVVEYT. TEHERAN, Dec. 3, The M'itiarak of Koweyt exchanged cordial visits with Lord Cuizon, Viceroy of India, during the latter's visit to the IVrsUm Gulf. Two hundred Arabs, mounted on horses and camels, escorted the visitors. | A CAPE SENSATION. CAPETOWN, Dec. 4. ■ A sensational trial ended in a verdict thai an Englishman named Mart was insane. He murdered his friend, James Armstrong, a native of Monteith, and the body lay for months on the shore of a, lonely I lake bear Capetown, Hart visiting the remains daily. JAPANESE ENQUIRIES. Received 5, 1.5. a.m. TOKIO, Dee. 4. Japan has sent an envoy to report on the labour conditions of South Africa. PANIC ON 'CHANGE. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.

A panic occurred on the New York cotton exchange on the receipt of the official estimate of the crop of 9,962,0.39 Wales being 600,000 below the world's requirements. Two million bales chajnged hands at high prices.