CABLES CONDENSED.

Evening Star, Issue 13004, 26 December 1906, Page 6

CABLES CONDENSED.

Earthquake shocks experienced at Kopal (Russian Turkestan) and Larbach (Austria). Minor shocks recorded in Italv and at tho Lsle of Wight. Tho Dnice case, which involves the Portland estates, has been reopened. The Bersecba Hottentots, on the supper reaches of the Great Fishi River (Capo Colony), are said to lie showing signs of unrest. At Watkins. N.Y.. a grand jury refused to prefer ;ui indictment against Frederick Soly, son of a banker, who was held for the. murder of Frederick Dickinson, wlio had pestered Soly's wife with his attentions. Tito jury's refusal was based on the doctrine of unwritten law. Russian firum-head courts-martial were rerponsiblo for fifty-seven executions in one week. Tho Liberal newspapers of Russia emphasise the faiiurc of tie Bureaucratic methods of sanguinary repression employed against the Socialist.". Tile Chinese Customs revenue for 1906 is the greatest on record. The United States Government intend to refund to China shortly the stun of four millions sterling, being the unexpended moiety of the indemnity for the Boxer outrages.' Counsel for Harry Thaw, held for tho shooting of Stanford White at the Madison Square Gardens, are also setting up the defence of the unwritten law. The question of the succession to the Hanoverian Throne ia to bo determined by tlie Council of the Regency of Brunswick. The assassin of the Grand Duke Alexis lunaticff declares that lie is; merely tho instrument of the. will of tho Extremists, who havo determined to kill every exalted Russian. The Ixmdon ' Telegraph's ' St. Petersburg correspondent, says that the Tver Zemstvo recently changed "from ultrarßadical to Conservative, electing reactionaries like the Grand Duke, hence the latest assassination. There are plenty of candidates for the s>eats in the now Transvaal Parliament. On the Rand (thirty-four seats) the bulk of the candidates "are Nationalists and ]j«borites. President Roosevelt has initiated a fund for tho relief of the famine-stricken people in North Kiang-su (China). According to a Hamburg newspaper, autonomy must be granted to Macedonia, as the work of reform has proved a failure. On dit that Mr Jas. Bryco and Sir Antony Macdonnell bod a serious difference as to how tho Irish Home Rule BUI should go. The Permanent Under-Secretary is understood to be averse to handing over tlie control of the Irish Constabulary to the new authority.