CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 12, 14 July 1906, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Press Association^Copyright. THU ZULU RISING. Pietermarltzburg, Friday. . The chief Messini and eight indunas have surrendered. Mr Winston Churchill has been informed that (resistance is practically over and most of the rebels are cowed or hiding. DREYFUS IS INNOCENT. Paris, Friday. The Court of Cassation decided that Dreyfus was innocent and quashed the judgment of the Bonnes Court as, erroneous and unjustified, and it was decided that no fresh trial was neces* Bary. The Government intend to promote Dreyfus to Mayor and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and Pioquart a Brigadier-General. FEDERAL MAIL SERVICE. London, Friday. The paper Fair Play declares that shipowners in the Australian trade generally consider the mail service on a subsidy of £125,000 by a steamer of the size and speed proposed, cannot be a commercial snecess. The Shipping Gazette says that in these ticklish days, so far as Australian admiration is concerned, when the tendency of legislation is unpromising, it is quite possible the Orient and Royal lines will welcome a spell of freedom from enormous conditions attaching to the mail carriage. OMNIBUS DISASTER. London, Friday. An omnibus which carried thirtysix picknickers, chiefly married tradesmen, at Orpington, was descending a hill when the brakes failed to act. The vehicle ran away and crashed into an oak tree atterrifio speed. Ten were killed and twenty-six injured. GOLD RESERVE. Mr Goschen, in a speech at the jubilee dinner of the National Discount Company, said "our small gold reserve is insufficient in the event of war, or other great crisis." NEW ARMY SCHEME. Mr Haldane, Secretary for War, explained the Cabinet's army scheme. Britain meant to lead a movement for the reduction of the crushing burden of armaments. With the whole-hearted concurrence of the Army Council they proposed to reduce the regular army by 20,000. England would then be able to keep prepared in peace to mobilise in war time an expeditionary force of 164,000 men, comprising six divisions of infantry, with four cavalry brigades, ten batteries of horse, and 63 batteries of field artillery, equalling three army corps composed roughly of 50,000 regulars, 70,000 reservists, and 30,000 men trained on the militia basis. The late Government provided excellent new field guns for the horse artillery, but only sufficient men to mobilise forty-two batteries. The present Government intended to utilise for ammunition columns and an artillery reserve 13,000 of the garrison of militiamen released from duties of coast defence, thus effecting a saving of £300,000 a year, besides doubling the efficiency of the artillery. Old field guns will be converted into quickfirers and will be issued to the volunteers, the horse artillery and cavalry will not be touched, but it is intended to dispense with the third battalion of of the Scots Guards, the third battalion of the Coldstreains, abolish the third and fourth battalions of the Northiunberlands, Lancashire Fusiliers, Warwickshires, and Manchester Regiment, and reduce the Irish Guards. The reserves will amount to 122,000. At the end of tho year tho militia will be territorialised and must go abroad in case of war. Volunteers will be organised for the defence of the naval ports, and will bo given definite functions in each district. CRICKET. Sydney, Friday. Noble and Trumper have resigned . from the Paddington club. WRECKAGE. -The Manuka passed a ship's fore or main yard, showing about ton feet above water, in latitude 33.36 south, longtitude 158.13 east. It had evidently been in the water a long time, being covered- with barnacles. CLOSED DOWN. Melbourne, Friday. The Phoenix Foundry, Ballarat, which in the heyday of ite prosperity manufactured over a million and a quarter pounds' worth of locomotives and railway rolling stock, has closed dowu. The main cause is the withdrawal of locomotive construction by the Government, and there being no regular demand for mining machinery. POLITICS. *Mr Deakin intimated that he had received the Imperial Defence Committee's recommendations for the defence of the Commonwealth. The document was marked confidential. He had already called the attention of the Imperial authorities to this inconvenient practice of marking despatches. He had now asked whether there was anything in the document in question that it was undesirable to publish. From a cursory inspection he thought there was very little that could not be published. Mr Deakin submitted to the House Mr Hall-Jones' and Mrs Seddon's replies to the Parliament's condolences. Hobart> Friday. A no-confidence motion was defeated by six votes.