CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1129, 9 March 1910, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

BY ELEOVRIC OOPYBISHT PER PEKBS ASSOCIATION. THE KING IN FRANCE. London, March 8. battleship fleet assembled at Dover to farewell King Edward, who is staying at the Hotel Bristol, Paris, as the Duke of Lancaster. His Majesty visited the studio of M. Detaille, who is painting a great picture of the presentation c Colours to the British Territorials. He afterwards attended the theatre and;saw the play>. "Chanticleer." He on. Monday. ROYAL TRAVELLERS. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who are to participate in the South African Union celebrations, will travel to South Africa by the West Coast route in a Union Castle liner with an escort of warships. They will depart at the end of August and disembark at Durban. LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS. Berlin, March 8. In the course of the Navy debate in the Reichstag, Herr yon Ledebour, a Socialist, charged Prince Yon Buelow and Admiral yon Tirpitz with quibbling in regard to England's attempts to promote the limitation or armaments. He declared that England made frequent, if informal suggestions. . -i Admiral yon Tirpitz, in reply, read Herr yon Sohoen'e statement m the London Times of March 24, 1909, to the effect that the English avoided formal proposals. THE SWOPE TRAGEDIES.

New York, March 8. Dr. Hyde has been indicted for the murder of eight other '.members of the Swope family, as well as Colonel Swope. (Received March 9, 9 a.m.) THJfi GERMAN NAVY. Berlin, March 8. Herr Baseman, during the Navy debate' in the Reichstag, said it was not Germany's fault that the size of vessels were constantly The Navy League and also the Home NationafLiberals had, out of regard to the Empire's finances, dropped the demand for the construction of ships over and above the provision or the Na TTOEON A BATTLESHIP. The new battleship Posen has been seriously damaged by fire at lveil. The repairs will occupy several weeKs. A STRIKE THREATENED. Seven thousand people, who made a demonstration at-Breslau, resolved on a general strike of miners unless the Liberal franchise were granted. 4000 MILES ON FOOT. Calcutta, March 8. Lieutenant Etherton, of the Garhwal Rifles, journeyed 4000 miles on foot. He left the Himalaya Mountains, crossed the Pamirs, Yarkand, and 'Atlas Mountains to Siberia, struck Novononisk station, and thence travelled to Europe. THE NASIK MURDER, j Calcutta, March 8. j The High Court at Bombay' is tryin<r the young Indian Kanare and six J others for the murder of Mr Jackson, -olleetor of Customs at Nasik last year. The prisoners, who are all Brahmins, are typical degenerates belonging to a secret revolutionary society. Kanare was a tool in the hands of Karve Dishpande, who, with the remainder, of the accused, is charged with abetting, FRICTION AND A RESIGNATION. Bosne, MarcE 8. The Marquis Capelli has succeeded Senator Faina to the Presidency of the "International Institute of Agri- ' culture. . The recent trouble, which arose in connection with the filling of minor postSj Isd to the resignation "of Senator Fama. .British a?id some of the other delegates &?&"'neutral in the matter. RUBBER IMPORTS. London, March 8. Imports of rubber last year were valued at £1,000,000 more than those of- 1908. . THE RUBBER BOOM. At to-day's auction in Mincing Lane, rubber fetched 10s 6d a pound, and is etill rising. New companies are being formed every week . DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN. Obituary.—The Right Rev. Edward King, D.D., Bishop of Lincoln, who recently resigned owing to ill-health, aged 81 years. He was the son •ol Archdeacon King, .of Rochester, and was ordained in 1854. He filled the positions of Principal of Cullesdou college., Canon of Christchurch, and Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, Oxford. LOTHARIO EXPELLED. New York, March 8. _ t The principal of the Morris Heights College, at Providence, in New England, expelled the son of Mr Philander C. Knox, Secretary of State for U.fa.A., for refusing to say whether iie was married. Young Knox eloped with a girl named Mary Boler, a draper's assistant. The couple now admit that they are married, and are returning to Washington to ask the llnox paternal blessing.