CABLE NEWS: BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 678, 16 September 1908, Page 2

CABLE NEWS: BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BT KMECTBIC TELEGBAPH— OOPTBWHT.] tPKB press association.] ALBERTI THE ABSENT. Copenhagen, September 16. Albert!, owing to whose defalcations of trust funds the Danish Cabinet has resigned, was chairman of the Danish Farmers' Association. The Danish papers state that he is largely interested in a Manchester and Tooley Street firm dealing in colonial dairy produce. MOROCCO. London, September 15. The conditions embodied in the Franco-Spanish Note as to the prerequisites to the recognition of Mulai Hafid as Sultan relate to guarantees common to all the foreign interests. They include the official disavowal of Jehad powers after the recognition, retain the right to advance claims affecting separate interests (including the repayment of military expenditure), also indemnities for murders of citizens of the nations. Tittoni gave the document a very favorable reception, and expressed satisfaction at its moderation. ... [Signor Tittoni is the Italian Minis for for Foreign Affairs, and the approval of Italy, as Germany's ally amd a member of the Triple Alliance, is important.] "". , • %HE CULLINAN DIAMOND, London, September is. The Daily Telegraph says the cutting of the smaller Cullinan diamond has been finished. It weighs 330, carats, or 90 above the Excelsior, hitherto the largest diamond. The larger Cullinan will be finished at Christmas. It weighs 600 carats, and dai the open market would fetch 31 million sterling. BRITISH POLITICS. London, September 15. The Hon. "Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, has prepared a scheme for a permanent arbitration tribunal. He creates ' a panel composed equally of business and labour representatives. Ife-both parties to a dispute wish experts .'in the particular trad© concerned, -they may be selected from the panel by* the Board of Trade. A BOMB OUTRAGE:, Rome, September 16. An unknown miscreant attempted the lives of Signor GiaHttie and family by placing a bomb against their residence, near Genoa. The explosion was terrific.' and a large breach was made in the wall, but nobody was injured.' [Signer Giolitti, Premier of Italy, was under a financial cloud for some time alter the fall of bis former Ministry, which succeeded that of the Marquis Rutfini in 1892. * Some years later he recovered his political mama, and he -has been Premier since May 6, 1906.] DR SVEN HEDIN'S SUCCESS. (Received Sept. 16 8.10 a.m.) London, Sept. 15. Dr Sven Hedin,the famous Swedish explorer, has arrived at Simla. He repor£s having made some wonderful . discoveries in Western Tibet, where | he says there is still ample room for ' , future explorers to carry on work. . He will shortly deliver a lecture. on ; his travels to the Royal Geographical Society of London. SOCIAL DEMOCRATS CONGRESS. Berlin, Sept. 15. At the Social Democratic Congress of 15,000 held at Nuremberg, at which 15,000, persons were present, over which Herr Singer presided, Mr Quelch, one of England's leading militant Socialists, in a characteristic inflammatory speech said that Chauvinism, (the French equivalent of jingoism) was stirred' up in England as in other countries by large groups calculating upon wars as a source of profit to themselves. The Party's executive introduced a resolution blaming Socialists in the Diets of Wuretonburff, Baden, and Bavaria for voting for the Budgets in States representing wealthy classes. The executive declared that such Budgets ought to be rejected unless the result would be the introduction -of__ others more unfavourable to workers. WANTED, AN ENGLISHMAN IN TURKEY. London, Sept. 16. The Porte has asked Britain to lend her the services of Chitty Bey, adviser of the Ministry of the Interior of Egypt, to re-organise the Turkish Customs. RICH CARAVAN CAPTURED. Jeddah, Sept. 15. ~ Bedouins attacked 1 a caravan of Japanese pilgrims at Jeddah, and captured £20,000. THE CHOLERA SCOURGE. London, Sept. 15. Energetic precautions are being taken in Western Europe, and also in London port, against a cholera outbreak. Reports state Ithat 7,000 deaths have occurred from the disease within the last two months in Russia. New Torky Sept. 16. The New York Herald reports 10,---681 deaths from Cholera in the Philippine Islands. New York, Sept. 16. Republican plurality in the state of Maine is 8,000, the smallest for 25 years. THE SEVENNOAKS MURDER. London, Sept. 15. The police have abandoned the theory that the motive of the Sevenoaks murder was plunder, and are searching for evidence of personal revenge against the murdered lady, Mrs Luard. ARRESTED FOR FRAUD. (Received September 16, 11.20 a.m.) Capetown, September 15. E. F. Smith, Town Clerk of Woodstock, Capetown, has been arrested on a charge of fraud in connection with the purchase of a farm by^ the municipality. Hia brother, Septimtw Smith, was arrested in Australia a fortnight ago, and charged^ with being an accessory to the crime. SOME SENTENCES FOR SEDITION. (Received September 16, 11.17 a.m.) Calcutta, September 15. Six men, arrested on the evidence of the lato approver Gosedan, have been committed for trial, on a charge of being implicated in a bomb conspiracy at Krisknasonie. t A , aeditionary leader named Sarina has been sentenced to five years' transportation for sedition at Coimbatore^Two others, named Abdas Ram and Chandra, have received sentence of a year, with hard labour, for conducting a school for the manufacture of bombs. B. G. Kilak, journalist agitator, has sailed for Rangoon to begin his sentence of six years transportation. GERMANS IN BRAZIL. (Received September 16, 11.25 &.m.) Vienna, September 15. At the Americanist Congress sitting in Vienna, Professor Irihsch charged German colomste of South Branl with brutal treatment of Indians, natives complaining that Germans sold them and their children in slavery. The Congress declined to pefetioui Brazil, regarding the matter as ci political one. TO TRY DINIZULU. Durban, September 16. The commissioners who are to try bhe Zulu Chief, Duuzuhi, win PQ S? W. Smith, Judge^f tte Sm«ww> Court of the Transvaal, Mr H. , g. Boehoff, Ju<te* of the Nature High ££rt of Natal, and Mr.H. 0. She*ttone, Secretary for NativeAffwejm ;he Transvaal, and eon of the late w ■ Dheophilus Shepstone.