CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 763, 28 December 1908, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

♦ [BY ELEOTBIO TELEGHAT»H COPYRIGHT.] rPBB PBBSB ASSOCIATION.] (Received December 28, 8.30 a.m.) FOR A BRAVE WOMAN. London, December 27. For the first time in the history of Lloyds, a silver medal has been bestowed on a woman. The heroine to receive the honour is Kate Gilmour, stewardess. She caved many Arab lives when the panic occurred aboard the steamer Sardinia, which caught hre and was destroyed on November 25. LONDON'S LEGION OF PAUPERS London's paupers number 130,543, the highest for 38 years. The special expenditure for their relief has reached the sum of £387,840. KOEPENIOKED 1 Berlin, December 27. A man in uniform "Koepenicked" the post office officials at Munich. He asked for and obtained possession of the entire mail for Nuremberg, and then disappeared. A RECORD RUNNER. Johannesburg, December 27. R. E. Walker,/ a Canadian, rail 100 yards at Jonaunesburg in 9 2-5 sees., and 120 yards in 11 2-ssecs. TO SUPPRESS RIOTING. New lorJi, December 27. •Lha Governor of Kentucky has ordered out' a company of Stace militia to assist niarsnais to suppress rioting m whitley County, wnere miners are on strike, A mmer and a marshal have already been killed. Several persons wqiq burned to death in a nofcel fire following on a light between marshals and miners. FRENCH PRESIDENT ASSAULTED. Paris, December 27. A man named ±UathiSj a fanatical Monarchist who is a restaurant waiter, seeking notoriety, watched for several days for President Fallieries. liie latter was strolling along the (Jhanips Mysee yesterday, when Mathis turned round and seized the President's throat and tried to pull his beard. Both fell struggling, the attacker's finger nails drawing blood behind the President's ear. Mathis was immediately arrested, and M. Fallieries continued his stroll. ' Many diplomats hastened to the Elysee to express their indignation at the outrage. Mathis had in his possession a medalion of General Mercier, who was responsible for the arrest of Dreyfus. BREVITIES. I'nere is acute tension between Germany and jawitzerlainid, owing to German millers dumping the finest Hour in Switzerland at prices which Switzerland considers only passible by meuns of disguised exgort subsidies. Switzerland wishes to have the dispute referred to arbitration, but Germany will only consent to such restricted reference that arbitration is considered useless. _ ' The ultimate residue of tne estate of Mr Henry Chapman, chairman of the General Hydraulic Power Company, is bequeathed to the King's Hospital Fund (London). The amount of the bequest is about £110,000. The New York Herald, with a view to preventing a conflict between Argentina and Brazil, urges Mr E. Root, Foreign Secretary, to endeavour to induce Brazil to establish a naval equilibrium with Argentina, as the latter has rejected Britain's offer of mediation. H. Poor, a member of the New York Stock .Exchange, has failed. His liabilities amount to five million dollars (£,000,000). Sir Christopher Furness, M.P. tor Hartlepool, has purchased the Wingate Grange Colliiery, Durham, in which he intends to initiate a system of co-partnership on similar lines to those he has introduced into his shipyards. A quantity of skilfully counterfeited silv,er coioiage and an up-to-date plant has been seized in Essex-road, London. A man has been arrested on suspicion of being connected wifcu the affair. The French Post and Telegraphs Commission, in a report to the Jhambo. 1 of Deputies, recommends the ;s---taolisiiment of penny postage \v : tii *iMiguand. Tne Dalai Lama of Thibet Has It-it Pekin on his return journey to Thibet. China has officially proclaimed herself the sovereign power of Thibet. The Duke of Westminster explains tba: his wishes regarding^ pensions have been misunderstood. He does not desire to disturb the pensions of septuagenarians on n.is estate. At a conference of Lancashire ironfounders and workmen, it was decided to ijstablish, a Conciliation Board, in order to avoid strikes. A Washington telegram implies that the cruise tit Admiral Sperry's fleet cost £10,000,000, coaling costing £5,500,000. Experts declare that the experience lias been cheaply bought. The Hottentots in the south of German South Africa have killed several fanners and three troopers. They have also captured a quantity of arms and ammunition. There is much . anxiety among the Germaius 2 who fear a recrudescence of rebellion. The Shah of Persia has refused to issue a rescript concerning the new elections until the Nationalists quit the Turkish Embassy, where they had taken refuge. Two leading Paris doctors have reported to the Anti-Cancer League that they used radium for cancer during a penoi of three years. They liad only siv. failures in b'2 oases