TODAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 118, 14 December 1905, Page 2

TODAY'S CABLES.

The Hardships of the Unemployed Telegraph Press Association. Copyright Received Deo 14, 8.89 a.m. London, December 18. Processions of the unemployed were held in Hyde Park. Two leaders waited at Sir H. C. Bannerman's residence, and urged upon him the hardships of the unemployed. Five thousand of the unemployed marched past Sir Campbell Bannerman's residence, 800 had previously picknicked outside. Sympathising tradesmen provided sandwiches. There were great police precautions. A Heavy Sentence London, December 13 Gooke, a ship's fireman, was sentenced to 15 years penal servitude for burglary in a publichouse at Woolwich. He blinded the landlord temporarily by squirting a solution of ammonia in his face. University Football London, Deo 18. At the Inter- University matoh Cambridge beat Oxford by three goals to two goals and one try. Steamer on Fire Singapore, December 18. A fire occurred on the blockaderunning steamer Carlisle, which since the war has been detained for months at Sargon. She has Russian explosives aboard. It is feared it will be necessary to sink the vessel. West Afrioa Tragedy Paris, Dec 13. A Sergeant of the French Colonial Infantry was arrested in Upper Sangha River, West Africa, on a oharge of executing without trial, three natives accused of not paying taxes in kind. His native soldiers ate the victims. The Congo State London, Dec 18. Owing to the Congo State occupying the territory claimed from the Soudan, the Government of the latter have closed the White Nile beyond Bor, isolating the Belgian posts. Taking Leave of Office. London, Deo 13. Hon. Mr Jbyttelton on his leaving office. Woollen Industry Failing. London, Dec 18. The Tariff Commission has published a summary of the evidence rethe wcollen industry, but submits no report. The witnesses were practically unanimous that the industry is deteriorating. No branch was expanding, and it was losing ground in the foreign and Home markets. The hands were decreasing, and the value of mil? property was depreciating. Unless remedies are speedily suggested the decline .would become greater. Alice Roosevelt's Engagement. New York, December 18. The New York Herald announces that Miss Alice Roosevelt is engaged to Mr Nicholas Longworth, p, Congressman. German Residents in Riga. St. Petersburg, Deo 13. The German residents at Riga have organised a regiment for mutual protection. They have imported 1200 Mauser rifles, connected all the houses in the Germany suburb with electric alarms, pierced the walls of the houses enabling the inmates to move from house to house without using the streets. The Tariff Question. Berlin, Deo 18. The newspaper Reichbote advocates Germany giving Britain exceptionally favorable treatment in conneotion with the removal of the provincial tariff arrangements in order to give the tariff reformers no encouragement at the general eleotion. Suez Canal Bates London, December 13. The Suez Canal Company, from January 7th, reduces the rates 75 centimes per ton, thus saving the Peninsular and Oriental alone LBO, 000 yearly. Tallow Sales. London., Deo 18. At the tallow sales 884 casks were offered and 825 sold. Mutton, fine 83s, medium 275, beef, fine 27s 6d, medium 275. The Anti-Trust Bill Melbourne, This Day. At the annual meeting of the Kauri Timber Company, Mr B.Reid declared the Anti Trust Bill might be better termed a Bill for the abolition of Australian industries, no doubt if it was carried into law it would injuriously affeot the company.