CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 273, 23 May 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

fBT KI.BOTBIO TKLBGttAPH— COPYRIGHT.] [PKH PRESS ASSOCIATION.] OBITUARY. (Received May 23rd, 9.20 a.m.) London, May 22. Obituary — G. H. Finch, member of the House of Commons for Rutland, aged 72. [The Right Hon. George Henry Finch, P. 0., Unionist, has sat for Rutland since 1867, was a eon of Mr Geo. Finch, of Burley-on-the-Hill. a Magistrate and Councillor for that County, and honorary Major of the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. At last election he defeated Mr H. Pearson by 483.] LABOUR TROUBLE. New York, May 22. Owing to the continued Labour trouble with the San Francisco Union, the ironworks are unable to complete the armoured cruisers for California, and the Government has been compelled to complete the vessels. CArHOLIC COLLEGE FOR WOMEN. - London, May 22. The Pope has approved of the project for the formation of a Catholic College for women at Oxford. MAIL SYNDICATE. The Mail Syndicate has not deposited with the Commonwealth representative the additional bond or £25,--000 demanded as a guarantee for the carrying out of the contract in the time allowed, which expired yesterday. INDIAN UNRfcST. Calcutta, May 22. The Manipur State, in the North, which has been under the direct control of the Indian Government since the massacre of 'British officials in 1891, has now been transferred to a native ruler. Seditious emissaries are circulating reports that the Punjab Government poisoned wells, causing a plague. Wild excitement prevails in the villages near Lahore, and two emissaries have been sentenced to eighteen and twenty-four months' imprisonment respectively. THE WHEAT MARKET. New York, May 22. Owing to bad drop reports, the quotations for July wheat advanced to 108| cents, and September wheat to 108| cents on the New York market, and to 102 and 104 cents respectively on the Chicago market. Profit taking subsequently caused a decline of one cent, and the markets closing unsettled. SUEVIC'S FLOTSAM. Hundreds of peasants on the Cornish coast are clearing the rocks of the Suevic's wool. Remarkable scenes are witnessed* HARD LUCK. Sir William Lyne states that Mr Winston Churchill, at the Imperial Conference, sympathised with nobody but General Botha.