CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 764, 29 December 1908, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BY ELECTRIC TEIiBGBAPH — «3G]?YBIGHT.J IPBB PRBBB ASSOCIATION.] ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. London, December 28. It is a-eported in St. Petersburg that two men, disguised as priests, entered ! the Shah's Palace during a Cabinet meeting. They drew tOieir revolvers and fired one shot passing through the epaulettes of the heir apparent. The guards arrested the would-be assassins. „ n „ , „ [This message evidently refers to the Shah of Persia.] SWITZERLAiND INDIGNANT. London, December 28. The Times Berlin correspondent reports that Switzerland's threat to resnt any primary dumping has caused a German desire to arrive at an understanding relative to the flour conflict. COLD SNA. IN BRITAIN. A severe cold snap is being experienced, and .a snow fell is general! in Ukigkiui. THE AMERICAN BLACK-LISTING. New ¥ork, December 28. President Roosevelt declines to interfere with the sentences of the Labour leaders, convicted of 'black-list-ing non-union nrms, while an appeal against the decision of the court .s pending. THE CABLE RATES. London, December 28. Mr Heiiniker Heaton, M.P., informed the Persident of the Liverpool « Uianiber of Commerce that there would be not the least difficulty in reducing the cablle rate f torn 50 to 7o per cent, owing to the powerful pressure being put on cable companies and foreign Governments, also owing to the Imperial Government's action m regard to the construction of Stateowned cables. FATALITIES FROM EARTHQUAKES. (Received December 29, 9.5 .a.m.) Rome, December 28. During <an earthquake which ocowred at Calabria, throe persons were killed and sixty injured. At Stefanaconi two were killed. At Sangregorio many were injured, and in other Calabrian hamlets (great destruction was caused. Loss of life also occurred at Caltanisotb, and in other Sicilian towns-.. CL-uS SPREGKLES DEAD. London, December 28. Obituary— Mr Olaus Spreckles, a. large owner in the Oceanic Steamship' Company, San Francisco, aged eighty years. He is supposed to have left £10,---000,000. PURSUING HOTTENTOia. Seven German soldiers a,nd civilians were pursuing Hottentot raiders when they were ambushed aaid shot by the natives. [A cable received on the 24th inst. reported that the Hottentots in the south of German- South Africa had killed several farmers and three -troopers. They had also captured a quantity of arms and ammunition. There was much anxiety among the Germans, who feared a recrudescence ol rebellion.] BEEF PACKERS BEWARE ! (Received December 29, 8.25 a.m.) New lork, December 28. President Roosevelt is instituting a searching inquiry into the methods of Chicago beef packers, with a view to prosecuting tlieni if any violation of the anti-trust or anti-rebate laws is detected, especially in connection with receiving rebates -from railways.