31 MAY 1902, page 2

There Is No Further News Of Disaster• From The West

Indies, but La Pelee, in Martinique, is still pouring out ashes, which reach as far• as Barbados, and are not, the chemists now explain, in any way fertilising. If no further......

Parliament Reassembled On Monday, But Nothing Of Special...

to be recorded in regard to its deliberations. On Wednesday the House of Commons could not be induced to reappoint the Committee to inquire into the operation of subsidies to......

Spain Is To Wait, As We Pointed Out Last Week

must inevitably be the case. Her two burning questions are Clerical ascendency and the tenure, and Senor Canalejas, who on those two points represents in the Cabinet ultra-......

On Thursday The House Of Commons Was Occupied With The

Navy Estimates. The discussion covered a wide range, but it was not of a very illuminative or conclusive character. Mr. Arnold-Forster declared that the Admiralty were fully......

Lord Pauncefote, Who Had Been Ailing For• Several Weeks,...

somewhat suddenly last Saturday at Washington. At the time of his appointment to Washington in 1889 Sir Julian Pauncefote, alter a long and honourable career as a Colonial Judge......

M. Loubet Will Be Back In Paris In A Day

or two, and then, it is stated, M. Waldeck-Rousseau and his colleagues will hand in their resignations, so that on June 10th when the Chamber has finished the "verification of......

The Directors Of The Hamburg-american Line Have Issued A...

explaining their agreement with the Atlantic Ship- ping Combine. The German companies, already subsidised by their Government, in return for submitting to various restrictions......

Chile And Argentina Appear To Have Either Made Up Their

quarrel or to have arranged to postpone it. They have agreed to a Treaty under which King Edward VII. is appointed general arbitrator, they promise not to increase their Fleets,......

The Italians Had Expected A Surplus Budget, And With It

some reduction of taxation ; but the accounts show only what is described as an "equilibrium." This has weakened the Government, and the Radicals attack it both for financial......