CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 270, 20 May 1907, Page 4

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BY BMOTBIO TKMGBAPH —OOPYBIOHI.] [P&B, PBESS ASSOCIATION.] RECIPROCITY. London, May 18. Owing to the non-arrival of Mr Fielding negotiations for the Aus-tralian-Canadian reciprocal treaty have not made progress. bir W. Lyne considers it better to deal with the subject when legislating on the Commonwealth tariff reports. THE IRISH COUNCIL BILL. Dublin Corporation, by a unanimous vote, strongly condemned Mr BirTell's Irish Council Bill as an insult to the Irish people. The Corporation declines to send delegates to the National Convention. THE EDALJI CASE. The select committee appointed to investigate the case of Edalji, who was convicted of cattle maiming at Great Wyrley, have presented their report, which finds that Edalji's conviction was unsatisfactory, and that apart from the letters which he wrote in 1903, and by which he partly brought the troubles upon himself, there was not sufficient evidence to establish his guilt. The committee are of opinion that he is not entitled to a free pardon, but think the case might properly be considered an exceptional matter. Mr Gladstone feels that the case is an exceptional one, and that he might give weight to the committee's opinion that»the permanent disqualifications following upon Edalji's conviction might be removed. He advises King Edward as an act of clemency to grant a free pardon, but says it is not a case for compensation. THE WESTHAM SCANDAL. The trial of the guardians of Westham workhouse on a charge of conspiracy has concluded. All the accused were convicted with the exception of Tarrant, who was discharged. Crump, Lewis, and Hill were each sentenced to two years' hard labour, and both were permanently disqualified from holding office and declared incapable of voting for a period of seven years. Hodgkin was sentenced to eighteen months', Anderson and Skinner to fifteen months', Watts and Riches to nine months', and Frank Hill Baird to six months', all with civic disqualification. THE STRIKE ON THE RAND. Pretoria, May 18. The miners on strike on the Rand offer to submit their grievances to arbitration.__ ___