CABLE NEWS. BRITISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 236, 10 April 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH POLITICS.

■ ■ •» [BY ELECTRIC TttEdRAPH— COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] REPAIRS TO THE SUEVIC. London, April 9. The Suevic's bow, in four compartments, will be ready at the end of July. The bottom and engines are undamaged. THE KING AND QUEEN. (Received April 10th ; 9.20 a.m.) Madrid, April 9. A banquet was held aboard the battleship Numacia. King Alfonco, in toasting King Edward and Queen Alexandria, emphasised the solidarity of interests and mutual sympathy of the two countries — the whole friendship was strengthened by ties of kinship. He regretted the enforced absence of the Queen. King Edward, in responding, eulogised Queen Christina's regency and reciprocated King Alfonso's desire that the ties of the two houses and countries, which were founded on historical and traditional community of interest and real sympathy, should be strengthened and drawn closer. MOROCCO. Morocco, April 9. The population of Fez has interpreted the Sultan's edict as decidedly anti-European, and it is considered in Tangier as unsatisfactory Even the Moorish officials pronounce it. unwise. While the German naval division was at Shazen, armed parties were allowed to land and patrolled the town for 24 hours, on the pretext of maintaing order among German sailors ashore. No similar patrols have been previously landed since 1905. BOWLING. (Received April 10th, 9.47 a.m.) London 1 April 9. The English Bowling Association has declined to arrange a test match with the New Zealanders, on the grounds that the latter are hardly representative. BATTLESHIP STRANDED. The battleship Trafalgar, owing to a defect in the steering gear, was stranded at Devil's Point,<on a reef at the entrance to Hamoaze, Devonport. There was a strong ebb tide, and she was towed off within half an hour, with 2ft of water in her forward compartment. The damage she sustained was slight. HAVELOCK WILSON. Mr Havelock Wilson's creditors have accepted the composition offered of 10s in tho £. [Mr Wilson was a Labor M.P. for Middlesborough, and was compelled to file owing to financial difficulties.] CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. Lasker won the fifteenth game in the chess championship. MR. TREE'S COMPANY. Mr Beerbohm Tree's theatrical Company has gone to Berlin^ at the Kaiser's invitation, with a shipload of scenery, to produce Shakespearian plays. RECORD BLIZZARD. (Received April 10, 9.48 a.m.) St. John's, Tuesday. The worst blizzard for forty years is raging in Newfoundland. Railway and road communication is all blocked with snow drift, and the telegraph service is crippled. CHINESE DISTRICT BURNT. Three fires took place in the Chinese district of Harbin. The whole business quarter was destroyed, and thousands are homeless. UNCUT DIAMONDS. Capetown, Tuesday. There is a popular agitation at the Cape in favor of an export tax on uncut diamonds, in order to transfer the cutting industry to the colony. MUTINOUS TURKISH TROOPS. Suez, Tuesday. The Turkish transport army from Hodeida arrived at Suez yesterday. The troops were mutinous and refused to land at Shabah. They forced the captain to proceed on the voyage.