CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 822, 8 March 1909, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

BY FJ/EOTBIO TBLBGBAPH — COPYRIGHT.] ! [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ; LMPEIUAL PRESS CONFERENCE, j London, March 6. The following additional events in connection with the Press Conference iave been ararnged: — Lord Rosebery will speak at the inmgural banquet at Lord Burnham's reception Hall. Barn Bricks. (Lord Burnhani is the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph.) June 6, Parliamentary luncheon at Westminster, and Marlborough House party. June 7, Mansion House luncheon. June 9, Constitutional Club lun-i-heon, Mr Half our presiding. June 15, Government banquet. June 11, visit to the fleet. June 12, Lord Northcliffe's reception. (Lord Northcliffe owns the Daily Mail.) June 14, Mr Arthur Pearson's dinner. (Mr Pearson is the owner of the Daily Express.) EGGS, ORANGES, AND KEIR HARDIE. Oxford undergraduates refused to •rive Mr Keir Hardie a hearing at the Town Hall, and pelted the platform with eggs and oranges. The meeting ended in a free fight. AN IMPORTANT SUGGESTION. The Associated Chambers of Commerce of Britain recommended an in-ter-Imperial postal conference to consider cheaper cablegrams and to concert measures for the recognition of the policy of State-owned and controllftd cables and respecting private rfghts. SERIOUS RAILWAY COLLISION. A collision between two trains took place at Tonbridge. Three were killed and twelve injured. An inspector smartly stopped the Margate express from dashing into the wreckage. The accident blocked the line and and delayed the King's journey to the Continent. VERBOSE VICTORIA. King Edward has committed to Lord Kshcr to utilise the late Queen Victoria's unpublished journals for an address to the Royal Commission. There are 1250 large volumes of correspondence and journals, and 100 manuscript volumes, being the daily record of the Queen's life from, her thirteenth birthday to within ten days of her death. They will never be published in entirety, it being Queen Victoria's wish that these should be examined by Princess Beatrice, who copied many of the volumes, excising passages which Queen Victoria desired to be private. CURZON ON INDIA. Lord Curzon, writing to the London Times, shows that the Government of India is not responsible for the executive and provincial councils. He dwells on the magnitude and importance of tho change. The proposal is due to Viscount Morley acting on the advice of the decentralisation commissioner. Lord Curzon supports the late Sir John Lawrence's dictum that personal administration by a single head without a council is the best form of government for India. Sir Walter Lawrence has resigned from the Council of India. It i 6 understood the resignation is in view of misgivings as to Viscount Morley's forms. (Received March 8. 8.5 oa.m.) THE KING. Paris, March 7. King Edward was accorded a hearty public welcome on reaching Paris, en route for Biarritz. He lunched at the Elysee Palace with President Fallieres, Premier Clemenceau, and M. Piehon, Minister for Foreign Affairs. AX AUSTRALIAN CADET AND THE KING'S MEDAL. London. March 7. Vice-Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes presented Charles Arthur Campbell Russell with the King's medal for the best cadet during a term of training on the- cruiser Cornwall. The King wrote a special letter notifying the nloiisure he derived from the fact that Rusf-01l was an Australian. A STRONG BARRIER. A rush of water at Birkenhead tli re(i toned the barrier of the great dock. Tho barrier withstood the pressure, otherwise several vessels wotild luivr hern overwhelmed. FOR OLYMPIC CONTESTS ONLY. The British Amateur Swimming Association, by 38 votes to 26. decided not to send n swimmer to Australia, the Association desiring to confine itself to Olympic contests. REAL TENNIS. J.n a real tennis match, Twinn beat W. Stone (Cambridge), B—6, 8 6, 6 — i. [A message received on February 23 stated that at the Princes Club ground (London), W. Stone, of Melbourne, defeated Twinn, England, for the real tennis championship, 6 — B, 6-4. 9-7, &-3. Real tennis, or royal tennis, is a game 1 played indoors, where the ball is driven against walls and into enclosures. The game was originated by the. early kings of Germany, and really it is a most expensive game, only suitable for those with plenty of money.") OLYMPIC PROFITS. The profits of the Olympic Games recently held in London were £6377, which sum is to be devoted to sending British athletes to future Olympic contests. COSSACKS FOR PERSIA. St. Petersburg, March 7. Russia will send half of her Sotnia Cossacks to Resht, Persia, where rebellion prevails. EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. New York, March 7. liiX-President Roosevelt starts on his African tour on March 23, sailing then i'or Naples. He has already contributed a signed editorial to tho American Outlook. [The latter portion of this message means that Mr Roosevelt has become a journalist, and has joined the staff of the Outlook, an influential weekly review, published in New York.] 100 TRAINS SNOWED UP. One hundred trains were snowi bound on Thursday within fifty miles of Washington, U.S.A. A BISHOP'S WEALTHY WIDOW. Obituary — The widow of Bishop Potter, of New York. It is estimated that the value of her estate is £10,---000,000. _____________