CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue IV, 3 December 1909, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT PER PRKBB ASSOCIATION. COMMAND OF THE NAVY. London, December 2. It is officially announced that Admiral Wilson has been appointed to succeed Admiral Fisher as First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, as from January 25. Premier Asquith, with King Edward's approval, has requested Baron Admiral Fisher to continue his membership of the Committee o,f Imperial Defence after vacating his post. SUCCESSFUL N.Z. EXHIBITS. At the Horticultural Societies' Colonial Exhibition in London, the New Zealand Government was awarded silver Knight6ian medals for fruit 6, etc., and preserves. (Received December 3, 8.40 a.m.) LIEUTENANT ADAMS. London, December 2. Lieutenant Adams, who was a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition, has been appointed by the Government to superintend one of the ftix principal Labour Exchanges. Other appointments include two Civil servants who were retrenched by the Transvaal Government. WHOLESOME BOOKS ONLY. London, December 2. The Circulating Libraries Association lias determined not to circulate scandalous, libellous, or immoral books or those likely to prove offensive to any considerable section of subscribers. This action is the result of the complaints of customers at the recent increase in the output of doubtful books. The managers of the Times Club, of Smith's bookstalls, and of Mudie's libraries took a leading part in this new movement. BOXED HIS EARS! Resenting criticism on the singing of his wife (Madame Clara Butt), Mr KwrnerHv Rum ford boxed the ears of Air Oollis, musical critic for the London Times, in the vestibule of the j Queen's Hall. Mr Rumford refused the demand of the Times for an apology, alleging that the so-called criticism was one of a series of attacks. Mr Collis has commenced Police Court proceedings. SLAVE-GATHERED COCOA. Messrs Cadbury Bros, are suing the London Standard for libel for what the paper published in commenting on the delay of Messrs Cadbury in. ceasing to purchase Santhome cocoa, a thing the .paper claimed the- firm should have done on principle. Sir Edward Grey. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in hJ6 evidence on the plaintiff's behalf, stated that Mr Ofldbury had asked him to take 6teps to stop the slave scandal as far back as 1906. Sir Edward advised him not to agitate publicly until the Foreign Office had been approached. PANKHURST'S PETITION. The King's Bench dismissed the claim of Mrs Pankhurst, the wellknown suffragette, made under the Act of Charles 11., to personally or by deputation present a petition to the Premier. POSTED MISSING. The ship Clan Macpherson, which left Newcastle, Australia, on June 24, for Valparaiso, coal laden, has been posted missing at Lloyd's. RELIEF FOR THE WORKLESS. The Lord Mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne has inaugurated a fund for the relief of the unemployed. He states that thore are 40,000 sufferers from the present depression. THE ALBERTI FRAUDS. Copenhagen, December 2. The majority of the members of the Committee of the Danish House of Commons, the Folkething, have urged for an arraignment whereby M. Christian, ex-Premier, may be brought before a special State tribunal on account of his alleged relations with Alberti. ex-Mi nister for Justice, in the hitter's forgeries and frauds. [M. Alberti, while director of the Zealand Peasant's Savings Bank, was responsible for defalcations amounting to £1,000,000. M. Christensen, after Alberti's arrest, resigned the Premiership on account of hostile demonstrations continually being made against him.] ADMIRAL TOGO RETIRES. Tokio, Dec. 2. Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo has retired from the position of Chief of the Naval Staff of Japan. He is to be succeeded by Admiral Ijuin. LORD KITCHENER. _Singapore, Dec. 2. Lord -Kitchener is about to start for Java.