CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 762, 24 December 1908, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

' (BY ELEOIBJU TEL3EOBAPH — OOPYBIUHTI IPEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE BRITISH UNEMPLOYED. London, December 23. The London County Council has voted money for meals for the uneinI ployed. i THE BALKANS TROUBLE. j . Sofia, December 23. ! The Bulgarian Note to the Powers j describes a passage of the Sultan's .Speech as an insult to Bulgaria and J King Ferdinand. Fresh tension is feared. BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION. New York, December 23. .At the instance of the reforming Mayor of Pittsburg and the Civil League, seven city councillors and two bankers have been arrested for bribery and corruption. They were released on heavy bail. (Received Dec. 24, 9.37 a.m.) New York, Dec. 23. The Pitbsburg City Councillors were accused of conspiring to secure, by bribery, the "passage of certain ordinances connected with the issue cf municipal bonds." The president of the German National Bank and the cashier of the same institution are also implicated. WRECK ON THE IRISH COAST. London, December 23. The steamer Freda, .with 22,000 bales of cotton aboard, bound from Galveston to Liverpool, has been totally wrecked at Mizzenhead, County Cork. There was a fog at the time and a heavy sea running. Five persons, including the captain, were drowned. The rest clung to the cliffs all night and were rescued at daybreak. The steamer's cargo was insured for over a quarter of a million and the loss falls primarily on New York, then on English companies and Lloyds. (Received December 24,8.40 a-.m.) London, December 23. Ooa4tguardsnien rescued the survivors of the Freda by means of ropes and ladders, while the castaways were attempting to .scale the precipitous cliffs. ' AN UNRULY NATIONALIST. London, December 23. Mr Farrell, a member of the House of Commons, refused to give security at the King's Bench Division at Dublin to keep the peace, and was sentenced to sis months' imprisonment, without hard. labour, for publishing in the Longford Leader boycotting and intimidating notices emanating the United Irish League, ana "also for making an inflammatory speech. NAVAL COURT MARTIAL. London, December 23. Harold Curtis, able seaman, and Yates, stoker, have been sentenced to two years' and twelve months' imprisonment respectively, and dismissal from the service, for throwing overboard a gun spring from aboard H.M.S. Amethyst at Portsmouth. SUFFRAGETTES FETED. (Received December 24, 8.40 a.m.) London, December 23. Miss Christabel Pankhurst and other suffragettes were given an ovation and tendered a public breakfast on being released from gaol. They paraded London in waggonettes. SIR THOMAS LIPTON NOT A C/HALLENGER. Sir Thomas Lipton has abandoned the challenge for the America Cup in 1909, owing to the restrictions imposed upon the challenge by the New l'ork Yacht Club. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. President Roosevelt has enlarged the scope of the secret service by merging all detective agencies into a bureau of criminal investigation, under the control of the Department of Justice. FIRE IN A BIG THEATRE. The Herald Square Theatre in Broadway, New York, was burned down. The audience and the actors and actresses narrowly escaped being burned to "death.