HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 7 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

CANADA'S LOYALTY. Received G, 9.36 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. Lend Aberdeen, speaking at Edinburgh., said the Boer war was the opportunity, not the cause, of the manifestation of Canada's attachment to the Motherland. He added : "But do not try to' galvanize into an artificial grown plant, one that is growing naturally and spontaneously. The maintenance of a good feeling might be jeopardised if regarded as a matter for mercenary | consideration." THE COTTON TRADE, Received 6, 9.25 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. Excitement prevails throughout Lancashire, lest the rise in the price of American raw cotton should prove calamitous to the cotton trade. NEW YORK, Dec. 5. The la-test information is that the eotton crop is much underestimated. Received 6, 9.32 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. Messrs Benn anid Sons, cotton spinners, of Broadloid, in a letter published in the newspapers, state that "the Americans possess such vast improvements l ' in the manufacturing and dying of the finest classes of cottons we make, on which there is a duty of one hundred per cent., and upwards, that our American department cannot pay beyond the next three or four years. We are, therefore, erecting mills in America and transporting hundreds of looms, with their complement of combing, drawing, and spinning machinery. We may add that it is no pleasure to us to take work from British workers." AFRICAN LABOUR CRISIS. CAPETOWN, Dec. 5. The Chamber of Trade, representing the wholesale houses of Johannesburg, recommends the importation of colon red indentured labour.

ROBBERY OF A BANK. A gang of masked merf gagged the manager and assistant at the Robinson Bank, Romdfontein, Transvaal, and stole £3OOO. CANADA AND GERMANY. Received 7, 0.59 a.m. OTTAWA, Dec. 6. Canada imposes a surtax on German goods finished in Britain or elsewhere if upwards of one half the selling price of the article represents tttat of German origin. A WARNING. Received 7, 1.13 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 6. Sir M. Hicks-Beach, in opening ithe Town Hall "at Cheltenham, advocated the issue of full, balancesheets to ratepayers on ciio various municipal undertakings providing for the repayment of loans from revenue. Ha decided that municipal credit haid fallen because the market was over-stocked and was sure that a time of financial difficulty was ahead. It was desirable that Imperial and municipal financiers should be chary in undertaking works involving new loans. AN ALARMING STATEMENT. Received 7, .0.49 a.m. CAPETOWN, Dec. 6. Professor Koch, addressing the Veterinary Conference at Bloemfontein, expressed the opinion that coast fever was likely to spread throughout South Africa, killing 90 per cent, of cattle. Inoculation was the only preventative and even this would involve, great loss.

THE MACEDONIAN ARMY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 6. Fifty-six foreign officers will be engaged in the gendarmerie in Macedonia and 300 subordinate posts will be reserved for foreigners.