CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 612, 1 July 1908, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(BX ELBGTBIC XBLE6BAPH — OOPTBIOBTj [PEB PREBB ASSOCIATION.] MINERS' EIGHT HOURS BILL. London, June 30. The Council of the Northumberland Miners' Asociation, by 55 to 23, condemned the Miners' Eight Hours Bill. The miners of the district will shortly ballot upon the question. REVOLUTION IN MEXICO. Mexico, June 30. A disquieting revolutionary outbreak has occurred in Mexico. One hundred insurgents were killed while attempting to capture Las Vegas. The rebels have captured-the-town of Jiminez and -Matainoros. - Thousands are marching upon Torreor. ' , A BIG RUSSIAN LOAN. St. Petersburg, June. 30. The Douma has voted an infernal loan of twenty millions sterling. : THE SIEVIER CHARGES. London, June 30. The hearing of the charge against ' il. Wievier commenced to-day »t Bow „ \ street. According to evidence, 'since the - newspaper, The "Winning Post, started, Sievier almost weekly made an attack upon Mr J. B. Joel and his family. Recently, Sievier, being short of money, approached Joel for a loan, finally promising to abstain from publishing ,£ urfcher alleged d«fS ma *° r y matter if given £5000. Joel offered £2500 on the. condition that Sievier gave a written promise. The latter refused and demanded another £5000 under the threat to publish some incidents in Joel's life. „ .- The case was remanded, bail being refused. '•-'•' (Received July -1. -9-2 a.mv).^ London. June 30. Further evidence in the libel case showed that Sievior received £5000 through. Milks, a bettioig commissioner, who was a negotiator between Joel and Sievier. The latter then gave Mills a letter promising not to molest Joel again. Mills surrendered the letter to the police when Joel laid the information. BRENNAN'S MONO RAILWAY. (Received July 1, 8.20 a.ml) London, June 30. At the instance of the Hon. A. Deakin, Prime Minister of the Australian commonwealth, Mr Louis Brennan, the Victorian inventor, has forwarded an official description of his mono railway, and has asked the Commonwealth, for assistance -towards the expense of its development. He offered his invention to the common- . wealth' on the same terms as to the ' Indian Government, or he was willing to leave the final remuneration to the commonwealth Parliament. : PRINCE EULENBURG ON TRIAL; Berlin, June 30. The trial of Prince Jilulenburg on a charge of perjury in' connection with the Harden libel case is proceeding behind closed- doors. '."■: IN THE CAUSE OF SCIENGEU * , •', London, June* so.*~ ■i| Dr. Hall Edwards, to whom % civil list pension of £120 was awarded in March, as a reward ;foi* A bis jdpxtiyfdom to experimenflmg- in the* toe s o? : iJhe X-rays,. jh<as suffered the anipuiation of his other hand. ~"'\- '■* ■ * AN UNFORTUNATE QUEl^.', Lisbon, June 30. --'■■'■q Queen Amelia, mother of "the young -Qa King of Portugal, is suffering from ~M diphtheria. ; ,' ; ... '- STEYN AND REITZ .PENSidNEb"; "| Capetown, June 80. "' -J The Orangia Assembly has unarii- -j%£ mously voted to MartmuSjfiteyn, ex- ;3 President-of the OrangesEree Sta&, .*."; a pension of £100t), and £5000 to | Francois Reitz, President of the same _J] State in 1888, and who succeeded Dr. ,. i§§jk Leyds as State Secretary. ."' •'•* i: *^M SOUTH AFRICAN FODDER. - ;j •■it - Capetownj .June., 30. .^fj Mr J. K. Memiriair,* Premier of ''•<£s& Cape Colony, and Dfi Smirtt, ex- : "Z$M Commissioner, of Public Works, haye^jga cabled to Mr Deakin, Prime Minis-;^^M ter of the Australian Commonwealth^^H that Victoria's attitude regardur;' .^H South African • fodder is consider - >^H distinctly unfriendly, and might' lea4.iPH to unfortunate reprisals. » * -„ ■■=!«*■ WOULD NOT SHAKE HANDS? London, -June 30. .^ The Chronicle states that at a recent levee, Admiral Sir Joihn Fiaher^^jß Senior Lord of the Admiralty, in t^e^HH presence of Cabinet Ministers, and "^2 foreign Ambassadors, offered, to. shake >/l hands with Lord Charles Beresford, .■•'jb who ostentatiously refused the,civil^^| ity. Lord Charles placed his hand \< "~: behind His back. . This, together'- t ; with Lord Beresford'* attitude to- ' wards Aclmiral Scott (in connection '. with the" recent signal trouble— the "-v^ "look pretty" signal), is causing much comment. It is reported that Lord^T %■■'■' Beresford retires aftQi* the manoeu- ; v. vres, and re-enter* ' political ..life. J. HISTORIC MANSION BURNT. ,- * London, June 30. , The famous historic mansion,. Doug- > las Support, 1 the residence of- the/:: * Rev. Snolto Douglas, at CoatJ&ridgej- >" ir in Lanarkshire, has been Diirned. The ;'4g?;i. damage amounted to £100,000. / Pro- . perty which was destroyed .included . '^i many relics of "Robert Burnsl fj.-$~ '_• AUSTRALIAN APPLES. Ji 0 London, June 30. New ZeUland, Tasmanian, Victor4||j& ian, New South Wales, South Austrd^^H lian, and Western Australian app^H^H gained first awards in a general cou^^^f petition at the Franco-British Esj^^^H bition. SIGNOR NASI RELEASED. Rome, June 30. I^ll The liberation of Signor Nasi, f, gl^popular Italian politician, fr\>in pri-^.;;-son, has caused immense -excij^ment.l?^'; SETTLERS FOR N.S/W.' | -'•< London, June : 3o. >j.J^": Since January 1, the New South £#<.•<■ Wales Agent-General has granted, 'as- r ": sisted to 1356 settlers, afid^^^j has experienced no difficulty .in se-'TH curing farming settlers. " r^. OLD AGE PENSIONS. '"jj London,. June 30. .1$ In the House of Commons, the *^-; Hon. Mr Lloyd-George, Chancellor? . „„ 'r of the Exchequer, against the united" •' votes of * Labourites and Unionists, ;'. withstood an attempt to include de- . * serving outdoor paupers in the oldage pensions scheme. Clause three was carried. . * THE NEW YIRG TO PARIS RACE. New York, June 30. ■■"■J* In the New York-Paris motor, race, vj American and German cars are well ahead of the Scarf ogolios-Zust car >^^H In Siberia all the cars went west of <^H Lake Baikal. . r WM DEATH OF SIR EDWARD MALET. :-. M London, June 30. -^^| Obituary.-^The-Hbri. Edward Bald- =: S win Malet, P. 0., G.C.8., G.G.M.G.;^^ He was born in 1837, was Ambassador \\^H to Germany, from 1884 to 1895; and^^| retired on- a pension. He was inij^H charge of the Embassy at Paris during^^H the Commune, Minister Plenipoten-j^^H tiary at Constantinople at the conclu^^H sion of the Russo-Turkish war, and^^H was in the same rank a^Cairo dunng^^^H the British campaign %i 1882. .'Ho^^H married a daughter 6t tho ninth- *'4|H Duke of Bedford. "'*^|