HOME AND FOREIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 267, 28 December 1903, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

REPRESSIVE MEASURES. KABUL. Dec. 25. Some country tribesmen settling in Kabul, stole burglariously five thousand rupees, . The booty was wund m theu- lotfgißgs, and by tie Ameer's instructions the offenders' ' tongue's and eyes were torn out. 1 NEW ZEALAND LOAN. '• LONDON. Dec. 25. « Bomaig Post -asserts that 7 Judging by the figures cabled, the I; average amount; applied for by each f» tenderer for the New Zealand loan ' was £15,000, Hence- the loan must ■till be pedaled out to small investors. ] LINES REFLOATED. AMSTERDAM; Dec. 26. Tha Dutch liner Finland tea been refloated. PROJECTED ROYAL VISIT, VIENNA, Dec. 26. The newspaper Neues Wiener Tagblate states that the Emperor Francis Josqph. vfsfts » King Edward about Hay next. FRANCO-ITALIAN TREATY. ■*:. • PARIS, December 26. M. Delcasse, .Minister r lor For- . BP» Affaiw, and Ct-Tornipll:. Italian Ambassador fc Franc;, signed ~* arbitration treaty, which is identical wrHi >he Angio-iFrench treaty ■, KfSHINEFF OUTRAGES. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 26. Evidence - given, at the Ktahmefl trials showed that the massacre «w organised by many prominent citizens, who were not arrested. On - a change. »f collusion hteiug preferred against them defending cojnsel appealed' to the Court to permit' the necessary steps being taken to bring the guilt"home to the ri s ht persons. The appeal was refused ; hence they abandoned their briefs. PERSIAN TROUBLES. Received 27, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 20. The "Daily Chronicle's St. Petersburg correspondent says it is reported that owing to troubles in the Astrabad, district Persia may ask Russia for military assistance. RUSSIA AND FRANCS. Received 27, 9.1 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 26. The newspaper Svit, in an article which is interpreted as impressing the view of Russian Government circlbs, declares that M. Combes' . Ministry is anti-Russian and is tdoftng its utmost to shako the pillars of the Franco-Kussian alliance. The journal adds that the Ministry, like a malignant cancer, y is eatrMtJ into Frame's power and l prestige. A MUNIFICIENT BEQUEST LONDON, Dec. 2G. Mr J. W. Cudworth, of Leeds, has bequeathed £70,000 to the Fusty Librtary at Oxford. ECCLESIASTICAL. Received 27, 9.37 a.m. ROME. Dec. 26. The Daily Chronicle's Homo correspondent says that the Pone has approved the Sacred Congregation's condemnation of the Abbe works, "together with the principal methods of modern biblical and his- _ toxical critucifmi. The Abbe Loisy recently republished his book 'TKvangilo et l'Englise," whi~h some months ago was condemned by Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of lari». The correspondent adds that the condemnation cannot fail to stir the Catholic world to its depths. Lnisy baa submitted to the decision of the Pope,