CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 277, 28 May 1907, Page 4

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

I V j (BT E..-HTKJO T«I__Oa>PH— COPTRJQHT ) , [FER PAESB ASSOCIATION.] j METHODIST CONTENARY. ; London, May 27. Sixty thousand Primitive Methodists assembled on Sunday on the top of Mawcop, a lonely mountain on the borders of Cheshire and Staffordshire to celebrate the contenary of the sect. JAPAN AND AMERICA. New York, May 27. Mr Root, referring to the recent attack on Japanese restauranteurs at San Francisco, requested the Governor of California to protect Japanese and see that the treaty with Japan and United States was enforced. Although Tokio advices state that Japanese unattach cardinal importance to attacks on restaurant keepers, vet indignation is aroused. Hayashi has directed Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassabor, to demand protection for Japanese. LABOR TROUBLES. Buenos Aires, May 27. Two hundred strikers attacked a frozen meat packing factory. The Buenos Aires police and a detachment of sailors repulsed the strikers, kUling four and wounding seven. Pretoria, May 27. Five thousand Johannesburgers expressed their sympathy with the strikers, and advocated compulsory arbitration. Dr. L. Outhwaite, a members of the Executive of the Transvaal National Association, declared that the miners should bring the financiers to their knees and compel them to plead for arbitration. "UNITY IS STRENGTH." London, May 27. Lord Meath, through the Empire's press, sends a message urging boys, girls, parents and teachers to try and realise that the Empire consists of a majestic community^ with free nations freely governing themselves. Owing to its being a vast sacrifice the enterprise and valour of our forefathers, hound us together by one King, one flag, one navy, forming a federation such as the world has never known. Lord Meath states these allied peoples look to each other for practical sympathy, protection, and co-operation. He appeals to the rising generation to be ready in time of need to think, labor, bear hardship, and excel in the practice of faith, courage, duty, self-discipline, fair dealing, even justice, good citizenship, loyalty, patriotism, and sympathy, thus elevating, strengthening, and consolidating the Empire and its race. GERMAN SHIPPING. Berlin, May 27. In connection with the sixteenth anniversary of the foundation of the Hamburg-American steamship line, the German newspapers emphasise that - the Company has far surpassed in extent the operations, numbers, tonnage and ships of all its British rivals, and claim that their ships are now trading in waters which until recently were British preserves, notably Australian and Indian waters. __-___-__-____-_-_____---__.