Home and Foreign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7963, 28 October 1905, Page 4

Home and Foreign.

It is now slaltd iluil Admiral T«>p;o never cast anchor from tin' time of ihe Russian sortie iiulii l'oi I AiIhur mi August Kith until t!)■ Russian warship Sevastopol Was disabled in December.

As a result of tin' opcninu; di (a new London riioiou-j,h-fare) ami the visit of the Parisian municipal delegates, Mr A. I'.. Cornwall, Chairman oi the Loudon County Council, has lieui knighted. president Koosevelt's sympathetic reference to the Southern dilhcultus is for him golden He warns tlie whiles to avoid 'misunilirsvaiuliuft with the biacFTs ; Iho two rae.s must work out thru ihstmies as law-abiding Anu-ncans.

A statement pulilislied hy Ihe Sydney Daily 'ifUisrat.il shows thai the (CCS paid to ia ! -d awiils in e, u:uetillil Willi Ilia I til's llil|Ull\ll into ll\ Mr Justice ('wen, as _ Lands C'olii-m.s-Kiii. r, amount to 'he hulk 01 liie payments wi.e made t <> VY. N. V.ohs. 'they ratine, in h.s case, as high a* l-2l<iill, C23»U, t2. r ,uu, l.J'Jilil, .u,d L-VVH Mi single payments. . _J

Two of the lead ins members of the 1-jiElisii liar, Sir Kdward Clarke, K.C., and Sir Hubert litJd, K.C., have given an opinion th.it the Trade-. Union rule in rtgard to payment i.f iiiein'.n-rs of the Ilut'se ol Co'uiimm i is legal. A test al l ion is being prepared, unless .Mr Stuart Sim, Chiel Itesisliar ol Friendly Such lles, who ruled otherwise, reverses lus r>.ct ill decision. Mrs John Driscoll, who was seriously burnt at iiu' residence Hi (iteysttcet, Auckland, on Tuesday, through setting her clothes ali/g-ht wjtli a cand'e, died in liie lluspital on. Thursday. The report of Dr. Maxwell, the Federal Sugar Kxpert, recomnieiids extension ol the l>etii,d of the bounty on white fliliiwn suo'ar for swui years. .Ml Kandolf, Consulling Kngiiic. r lor ihe l'aiiaina Canal, expins ih.,l ihe work will be compieu.l in i-'lj. J21.IMII) worilt rs Ileitis )i-i|iiireil. T in re lliotild l>e an adoption oi 'i,e ''gill ill,llls' s\sieni, .it ,||| ,neiv,e,e in c; si of i.ii:-foiiri!i. Thirty 1,1. in.n <Soliion dollars worin l-'ti ;,i-.i maclilU ry is worlbl. In his annual siiiuiii n: 'if I' A. Cornwall, Chairman of l.c.aioii I'ouniy Council, showed thai Ihe del;i oi iin- L'oniily Council ainount- ■ d lo tii.-ai.2Wi, including; II. 1 . lilllItiitis t.ii.Mi uu-r m-in ih.- la'.e 1 -ol lio.il'd, eiso li'.ill-I n, .JI icii-.ci tf» r.iiuiii r,iti\e no! .avrl.in s a liMi.i-.i, oil tin- iA I .■ ■ 'ihe. annual 1 nnllll ip.ii expeliiiiiure of London was niill.oiis, loiii'ioiil tbal of Deiiinai 'ili- A.is'.r iliji, V-,.: , j,, i; |; . Ic; I *!'. il a .oini u-j ori .n < 'i"n i.ieih. .is anil a:lveii i -ie.g the -. ■ 11; 1111 <, 11 \\ \. t i 11 h. the r.:i,;jii p c .-,| in \ ii-1< i i iL i, m'•e..:iin;; ,i I ;,ii alarming rale, al.il iie d lor more chccliie suppie.; ,i,,n isejie; on the (iov-.-i hhimu in m II par s of ihe Stale. TUrn-Jivr >e. r-, ?»«, in ili.. pnsov oi marl) 'ii ■ whole population , !v.i- ii ',! e Wail ,U1 and til ■ Hai, .i.il il-.iH ough. lii hop ;-.ui, r opeiitd he \vir ili ii i Imri li Iluit h;:s for s-*; i 11 1 ; la-, n Ihe "lions.- ol tied'' f"i' the 1 Anglican rmiiiiui.ity Ha\eioelv. And S;M-:..| oi loose '.lll, ill is?'! \v. r ■ ini-eiY -i -.;vc:at• i id ilie ceM-moiry e.ii;!i.clnl by l'i..ln.p -aiii rWi re Jl,-ni ri e, ally v.li n j <; c I .moll) oi eons, ei ,i i ion was pel - inline.l in liie n: v. chinch hy liis a'ldship Be hop j:u!,-s.