CABLE NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXII, Issue 6485, 2 February 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. STDNET.Feb. 1 Another death from plague has occurred ft f LJlivarra, A sister of the deceased has also been attacked. Numbers of infected vataaro being caught. In connection with the recent bush fires the Government analyist reports that fires mnv originate from the imperfect preparation of "phosphorous baits for the destruction of rabbits or from too large a bait. Their use should be prohibited during the last three hottest months of the year. The Labour Conference has resolved to favour the nationalisation of coal mine?, and the giving to a wife of a legal < righ^to a fair proportion of the accumulations of the married partnership; the same to aDDIv to the case of a husband. PV * London, Feb. 1 Princess Victoria has lately been unwell, and unable to accompany her parents to various country houses. Under the advice of Sir Francis Laking and Sir Frederick j Treves, she prepared for an operation, and , came from Sandringham to Buckingham Palase, where Sir Frederick Treves operated The circumstances were tavourable to the operation, which was borne well. The King and Queen have cancelled their ; engagements and remain in London. -It is announced that despite the pain the Princess passed a fair day, and no untoward, symptoms bave shown^hemseW President Roosevelt at a banquet in Philadelphia, urged more thorough supervision of commerce, particularly of railroads, which ought to be open, to all alike on reasonable and equitable terms. Some tribunal must have power over the rates, especially over rebates, thus placing big and little shippers on an equal tooting. The House of Kepresentatives Iramigra tion Committee has reported favourably on Mr Adams's Bill prohibiting the Mentor, into the United States of over 80,000 persons from any one country m^year The German Federal Council has adopted all the new commercial treaties.^ i Eeuter's Agency reports that if allowed to acquire a strip of Baluchistan territory, starting at the south-west corner of AtBhanistan and terminating at a port on the iXanSea, the Ameer i 8 willing that a railwoy shall be constructed through it to Kandahar and Cabal. § ftb . ! . There is great indignation in Berlin at the fact that officers under superior orders instead of deliveridg patriotic addresses to j the troops on the Kaiser's birthday, incited them to imitate the Eussian soldiers if a popular rising occurred in Germany The progressive newspapers protest againstthef attempt to ihfeot the German army with ideas of ba^rißm. BKFeb>i A "Rftilwav Trust, controlling the chief ibtstS the Atlantic and the Pacific has been formed in New York, with a capital of fourteen hundred millions London, reo. i The British Postmaster-General announces that as the P. and O. Company is Sow the only line in the Australasian mail service, advantage will be taken of other opportunities for the toawmianwi of mail. 'foe cruiser Pegasus, under Commandei Doyly, leaves shortly for Austraia to re--lU!?iß^Stad that Lord Linlithgow (Lord Hopetoun) has been offered the SecretnryBhip of Scotland.