CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 295, 19 June 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

• [Br Eucxrio Tmjwbaph—CoptbiuhtJ [PJBB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] BOWLS. (Received June 19th, 8.33 .m.) London, June 18. New Zealand Bowlers beat Carlisle by 56 to 24, and Sunderland by 49 SEDITION IN INDIA. (Received June 19th, 9 a.m.) Bombay, June 18. Dinanth, editor of the newspaper Hindustan, has been arrestea for sedition. WOMEN IN POLITICS. Received June 19, 9 a.m. London t June 18. In the House of Lords the Hon. H. S. Belper, with a view to co-op-eration instead of election, moved to refer the Women Councillors Bill to a Select Committee. The intervention of Lord Milner Bave the Bill. The debate adjourned to enable Government to furnish certain statistics. GENERAL BOTHA CENSURED. ' (Received June 19th, 9 a.m.) Pretoria, June 18. In the Legislative Council Sir George Farrar censured General Botha for breaking his promise to protect the mining interests. "THE MIKADO." (Received June 19th, 9 a.m.) London, June 18. The Lord Chamberlain has withdrawn the prohibition of the opera "Mikado." SOLDIERS SYMPATHISE WITH KIOTER& (Received June 19th, 9 .m.) Paris, June 18. Owing to untrustworthy regiments in four of. the disturbed provinces, the Government is replacing them with several better disciplined troops. SLEEPING SICKNESS. (Received June 19th, 9 a.m.) London, June 18. At Lord Elgin's invitation, an International Colonial Conference, to consider sleeping sickness, has opened in London. THE MEDIC. (Received June 19th, 9.12 a.m.) London, June 18. The steamer Medic, which was in the collision, has arrived at Liverpool. She has only a slight crack above the water line. Tne vessel was dry docked for eramination. THE ANGLO-SPANISH AGREEMENT. (Received June 19th, 7.53 a.m.) London, June 18. French and English newspapers unanimously acclaim the Spanish agreements. Le Matin declares that now it is almost impossible for Germany to make war at sea. The Times says: — "Our reasons for entering into the arrangement with Spain are manifest. The routes to India and the Far Eas£, in peace or war, pass the coasts and harbours of waters included in the agreements for hundreds of miles. It is of the highest moment to us that these coasts and harbours should remain safe and undisputed in the friendly hands now holding them. We could not, in our own interests, suffer the possessors to be molested, whether we, by formal agreements or not by agreements, clear up and proclaim our inevitable policy/ Reuter learns that, before the text of the Anglo-Spanish Note was published, it was thought more courteous to communicate with other powers the terms of the agreement, to enable them to see that its sole aim was to consolidate the status quo of the Mediterranean, which has always been the common object of the policy of all the great Powers having interest in the Mediterranean. ""* THE TRANSVAAL. (Received June 19th, 9.12 a.m.) Pretoria, June 18. In the Council, Sir G. Farrar denounced the Loan Guarantee as a fresh instance of Downing Street interference in tbe Transvaal's domestic concerns, and the vital question of Labor out of the Transvaal's hands. He added that the Government policy respecting the increased supply of Natives was merely a policy of pious hopes in thek teeth of findings of many commissions. There were signs that it was the Government's intention to cancel the debts of repatriated burghers, while the leaders of Orangia were united in hinting that it was the intention to repudiate all liability on behalf of the Orange Colony. .