HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 259, 17 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

LABOl'il TROUBLES ; . CAPETOWN, Dec; i?; Thousands oi .Chinfcfjq captu.i-ed ail anti-Chinese mass meeting at Johannesburg, and carried a motion hostile to a referendum on the subject of indentured and unskilled coloured labour. The miners frequently cheered the Chinese. FIGHTING IN GERMAN AFRICA. | A German patrol captured a Hottentot laager in German Southwest Africa. The Hottentots subsequently rallied and drove the Germans across the river, wouhtiihg' tWO; THE KAISER'S ILLrHEALTH. Received 16, 11.65 p.m. BERLIN, Dec. 16. Twenty-two doctors examined the growth extracts from the Kaiser's throat. Ail declared tihein benignant. THE THIBET MISSION. Received 17, 0.7 a.m. BOMBAY, Dec. 16. The Thibet Mission crossed the Jelip Pass unopposed. The villagers were friendly. SERVIAN REGICIDES. VIENNA, Dec. 16. The Emperor of Austria has warned the Servian Government that no perfect understanding between Austria and S-ervia is possible until t'he regicides are punished. It was 'hinted that the Powers would adopt a graver and more effectual measure than giving their diplomatists leaive of absence if the regiicides retain their influence.

SOUTH AFRICA. CAPETOWN, Dec. 16. Lord Milnpr has arrived at Qapetown. General Delarey is visiting Ahmednagar, in India, trying to persuade 500 Boer prisoners there to aibwndon their irrecopcilstote attitude. ENGLISH EDUCATION. LONDON, Dec. 16. The Bishops of London and Rochester have appealed to churchmen to fight the London County Council elections on the education question. GERMAN AFFAIRS. Received 17, 1.3 a.m. BERLIN, Dec. 16. .Count Von Bulow warned the Social Democrats that anyone opposing the law would be crushed. The Socialist leaders' incitements to class strife amounted to terrorism. Count Posadowaky, Minister of the Interior, denied the circumstances of Germany's comparable conditions before the French revolution. If a revolution ever broke out many would lose their heads if opposed to constituted authorities.