CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 528, 23 March 1908, Page 3

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BT ELECTBIC TK',EGRAFH- COPYRIGHT .. [PEE PBE3B ASSOCIATION. 1 BRITISH PREMIER IN A GRAVE CONDITION. (Received March 23, 9.11 a.m.) London, March 22. The Observer states that Sir H. CampbfeU-Bannerman's condition is graver than the bulletins admit and sWosts that, in addition to heart trouble, he is suffering seriously from dropsy. THE PAGE ESTATES. Mr Justice Eve, declining to disturb owners' titles dating eighty veara back, refused an application of the claimant for the Page estates, covering nearly half the area of Mi Idlesex, for tho appointment of a receiver and manager. FOUNDERED IN* THE RED SEA. Aden, March 21. The German-Australian liner Laeiaea, bound from Sydney to Hamburg, struck a rock and foundered m The crew took to the boats, and were rescued and landed at Aden. They state that after the captain sot the course and retired the officers misunderstood the course, and the vessel struck a rock in latitude 22 degrees north, longitude do. GENERAL STOESSEL'S CELL. (Received March 38, 9 11 am) St. Petersburg, March 22. General Stoessel has wwrrendwed, and has. been plated in a barred cell in the fortress* of St. Peter and bt. Paul, in St. Petersburg. , The cell is 19 feet square, and adjoins that m TKhicT Admiral ' Diebgatoif was incarcerated. ANOTHER UNIONIST SEAT. London, March 22. The by-eleotion for the Down (\\-, bei Mr H. Liddell (CoWvakv«>, So £t the seat without opposition, Boattie was Mr McOaW. opponent.]