VARIOUS-CABLED ITEMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1903, Page 5

VARIOUS-CABLED ITEMS.

[fhkss assoctatiok.l (Received Decomber 23, 8,54 a.m.) ASIATIC TRADING IN THE TRANS- \ AAL. CAPETOWN, 22nd December. The Transvaal Legislative Council has decided to appoint a Commission to cnquiro into A&iatic trading in tho Transvaal. SCOTTISH MILITARY CAMP. LONDON, 22nd December. The War Oflice has increased tho area of the Scottish military camp at Hawick by 25,000 acres, purchased from tho Duke of Buccleuch. CRUELTY TO SOLDIERS. * BERLIN, 21st December. Sergeant Like, an officer in the German'army, has been nentencod to eighteen months' imprisonment and degraded, for seventeen cases of cruelty to soldiers. NEW GUINEA. (Received December 23, 9.2 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd December. The Globe agrees witn Major-General Hutton's report on New Guinea, but recommends immediate and wisely conceived explorations in pursuance of the policy of Paciflo penetration. THE BRITISH ELECTIONS. LONDON, 22nd December. Lord Tweedmouth, in a letter, btatcs that although the fiscal question must be the main one at by-elections, there ah> blots on the Government record so black that it is impossible for thorn to escape notice. NEWSPAPER RIGHTS. (Received Dcoember 23, 7.40 a.m.) LONDON, 22ud December. Mr. Justice Kennedy, on the King's Bonch, decided that newspaper proprietors' rejection of an advertisement on the ground that it is a misututement of fact is justified. IRISH LAND ACT. (Received December 23, 7.40 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd December. Mr, Justice Ross, in the Land Judges' Court, at Dublin, decided, contrary to the, intention of tho authors of the Land Act, 1903, that a tenant for life mußt not appropriate the bonus to owners, but must hold it also for all others who took land under settlement. The decision removes in tho coses of many landlords the strongest inducement to sell. An amending Act is now probable, with the co-operation of the Nationalist! Party. PANAMA CANAL TREATY. WASHINGTON, 21st December. Fearing Senator Gorman would induce Democrats not> to ratify tho Panama. Canal Treaty, the United States Government has deferred voting in the Senate until tho Christmas holidays are over. THE COTTON TRADE. LONDON, 22nd December. German spinnoi'H having sufficient orders to keep them employed until summer, declino overtures from Lancashire to restrict production.