CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 291, 14 June 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

— ♦ IB r Elictsio TauKnupß~-Oopntiaß*] [PUt PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE 'FRISCO FRAUDS. London, June 13. The trial of Schmitz is proceeding. Kuef testified for the prosecution that he shared with Schmitz various specified bribes. PRINCE HENRY DISGRACED. The Standard states that the Kaiser, hearing of the scandal, dismissed Prince Frederick Henry, the late Regent of Brunswick's son, from the Army, tore the decorations off his breast, and ordered him' into exile. The Daily Express says that Prince Frederick Henry was hitherto considered to be the most pious member of the family. The Kaiser, after degrading him, soundly boxed his ears. * Prince Frederick bur«>t into tears and quitted the Palace without a word. He is now in a remote part of Egypt. DEFRAUDING NEWSPAPERS. Robert Simpson and William MacDougall have been sentenced to five years' penal servitude at Edinburgh, for conspiracy to defraud Glasgow newspapers by inducing them to publish bogus telegrams describing Simpsen's arrest for murder and proceeding to claim damages after publication. Joseph Ferguson and John Stewart were acquitted. CHINESE ON THE RAND. Reuter's Pretoria correspondent states that General Botha on Friday will announce his decision not to reenact the Labour Ordinance, but to repatriate the Chinese as soon as their contracts expire. He is sanguine of obtaining a sufficiency of native labour. DISTRESSFUL IRELAND. Agitators in Ireland are propagating Lord Denman's remark that cattle driving is not a serious crime. This co used the failure of one prosecution. Mr Bilrrell was greatly heckled, and he declared that Government expected owners to protact their own cattle, and the action of the police was merely an adjunct to such protection. He declined to cay what the owners' steps should be. He said the police had n> evidence that the surrender of •* ■>, farms was due to the pressure df the Irish League. The Times says the Nationalists successfully appealing to the agrarian passions of the peasants over a grqwitfg area in Connaught and Munster, and urging them to defy the law, will force Government to choose between coercion and anarchy. DUTCHMEN v. SCOT. Bloemfontein, June 13. Two Dutchmen haveH>een tried for "moonlighting" and blowjpg up the dam of a Scottish settler named Adams. The jury -disagreed and the accused were discharged. (Received June 14th, 9.10 a.m.) London, June 13. Rand miners have asked Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, M.P., and Labour- V ites to assist the strikers with fundL^ or secure the withdrawal of troops, off the ground that without soldiers the mineowners would be unable to achieve their ' aimsigffls the employment of volunteer^wald lead to a civil War, becanie^inany would"' side with the strikers': * -ARWBSTS IN INDIA, i - iv >->' Calcutta, June J& Several prominent advocates of boycott and sedition have been, arrested here. OBITUARY— SIR H. H. HOCKING. Obituary— Sir Henry Hicks Hocking, formerly Attorney-General 1 'for West Australia, aged 65. " * PREFER DEAD LEVEL/ London, June 13. Owing to the introduction of the premium bonus system at the VickeraMaxim works at Erith, nearly 2000 have struck. MUNICIPAL RESIGNATIONS. Paris, June 13. f Eight municipal bodies have resigned. M. Clemenceau holds that the resignations (requiring a month's notice!) are irregular, and that the municipal authorities are personally liable for damages for tine consequences of tfao stoppage. FATAL STEAMER COLLISION. New York, June 13. A steamer collided with a launch bet longing to U.S. Battleship Minnow sota in Hampton Roads, at night. ' ■= Six midshipmen and five sailors were. .^ I drowned. A LEAKING BARQUE. Durban, June 13. The barque "Hans," bound from Melbourne to the Channel with wheat, Sut in here leaking. Her cargo is amaged. LADYSMITH'S LIBERATOR. London, Jnne 13. Lord Dundonald, in an interview with the Daily Mail, states that he retired from the Army owing to the authorities not offering him employment since he, was turned out of the Canadian Militia for calling attention to political competition* in the appointment of officers. WEtSH INDIGNATION. Tv There is indignation among Welsh members at Sir Henry Campbell-Ban* nerman's declaration that there will be 2°« Welsh Disestablishment Bill in 1908 w THE LABOUR MURDERS. New York, June 13. Orchard testified that he planned to blow up a boardinghouse at Globeville, where 160 non-Unionists we» living, but Haywood discountenanced it, and the plan was dropped. r TENNIS. - £ , London, Jnne 13. Brookes and Mrs Hillyard won the Mixed Doubles Championship, beating Casdagli and Mrs Sterry by two sets to love. BRITISH POLITICS. In the House of Lords, Earl Beauchamp explained that unde» the Laundry Bill convents containing in■nates for- reformatory purposes were subject*^ inspection when industrial Work was performed. ' *. . ; ''Thiftßill providing foR the qualification of women as members of the County and Borough Councils was read in the House of Lords a second time by 111 to 33. AMERICA SCORES. , Mr E. B. Winans, an American exhibitor, has taken three champion, ships and 23 first prises at the great international Horse Show at the Olympi* RED~€«©SS SOCIETY. The International Red -<&»*• Society's Conference, > Loadon, has agreed to the appointment of four delegates to visit the various institutions of the Red Cross Societ es and prepare a report. It also discussed the abuse of the emblem, and agreed that it was within the S^iety^pro!. vmee to sucoonr prisoners of war An eriMCition of ambulances and nec J^ bn 'With the Conference. - &&'■■■■' CRICKET, .'ln the w«o n d innlngj^f the match between Gloucester aSd Southampton, Dennett took s&en wickets for