CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 269, 18 May 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

- —♦ . [BT BUOTUO TBLBOBAPH—OOPYBIGHT.] [PcSB PBBBB ASSOCIATION.] (Raceived May 18th, 8.27 a.m.) JOHN TINLINE'S ESTATE. London, May 17. The late John Tinline, of New Zealand, possessed an estate in the Unifed Kingdom valued for probate at £88,402. RAILWAY CO. FINED £4000. New York, May 17. ~ The €hicago-Milwaukee-Bt. Paul Railway directors confessed to giving lebates on a coffee shipment, and were fined £4000. THE FAR EAST. London, May 17. Dr. Morrison, of Pekin, Bays that Japan's negation of the "open door 1' and equal opportunity in Manchuria and her reluctance to agree with England respecting trade marks in China is wearing out the patience of merchants in the Far East. THE CONGO. Sir Edward Grey, in the Congo debate, said that Belgian annexation with real, not nominal, responsibil- ■ ity, would be a great gain, but it was • impossible to wait indefinitely. If the Belgian solution collapsed, the •. question would become an international one. The debate showed Britain's willingness to help Belgium with moral support if she was seriously desirous of a termination of the abuses. DYNAMITE BOMBS. Stockholm, May 17. Eleven Russians were captured- at a bomb factory in Sweden, close to the Russian frontier, with bombs of dynamite. OFFICIAL CORRUPTION. Hongkong, May 17. Widespread corruption is revealed among subordinates, in administering the sanitary laws in Hongkong. The Acting-Governor denounced their ' conduct as unworthy of the' English name. SIR ELDON GORST IN EGYPT. Cairo, May 17. The Khedive cordially welcomed Sir Eldon Gorst, who succeeds Lord Cromer as Controller-General in Egypt