CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1403, 30 January 1911, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

BY. ELECTBIO TEIiEOKAPH —OOPXBIGHT. (FEB PBE3S ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 30, 9.10 a.m.) LORD GLADSTONE'S BAD BREAK Capetown, January 29. Lordi Gladstone denies the report that he advised white women to lock their doors to prevent assaults by natives. The Argus agrees with Lord Gladstone's view that it was a case of assault with intent, but points out that extenuating circumstances had not been clearly shown-before the commutation of.the sentence. Capetown, January 29. The Cape Times deprecates Lord Gladstone's argument that the native was spared because the idea of the rape only occurred to the man's mind after effecting an entry for the purposes of robbery. The South 'African News is not prepared to support or condemn the reprieve, but denies that Lord Gladstone put sentiment before jvstice. FOREIGN SHIPPING WEEK. London, January 29. It is reported that foreign firms are I organising a. "foreign shopping week" in London, immediately after the •"'All-British shipping week." BLACK AND WHITE SEA TRADE. The Observer's St.- Petersburg correspondent instances the results of the Potsdam interview and the White Sea fisheries move as showing the ney of Russia's foreign relations to be economics not politics. GERMAN MONOPOLY. Two German companies are seeking to monopolise the Black Sea trade, conveying passengers 'and cargo at rates considerably below the Russian rates. ECUADOR-PERU HOSTILITIES. Renter states that the EcuadorPeru frontier dispute has culminated in open .hostilities at several points 'on the frontier. "PETER THE PAINTER." . A Lithauanian, stated to resemble "Peter th© Painter," has been arrested at St. Ives, in. Huntingdonshire. 'ALSACE-LORRAINE. Berlin, January 29. The Reichstag referred to a Committee the proposed constitution of Alsace-Lorraine. The Alsatian deputies opposed the Bill, on the ground that the powers conferred were inadequate. Constantinople, January 29. America strongly protested to the Porte owing to soldiers when voyaging aboard the steamer New Jersey assaulting the Consular Agent,.at Alexandretta, in Asiatic Turkey, because he intervened in a riotous outbreak. MacWHIRTER DEAD. London, January 29. Obituary—John MacWhirter, R.A. [Mr MacWhirter was'elected R.A. in 1894, and is noted specially for his paintings of Scottish life.] BIG BILLIARDS. Gray, the Australian, has scored JOOO, including a break of 1340. Duncan has only scored 4150.PRINTING TRADE STRIKE. The printing trouble with machine minders, cutters, and labourers in London has extended to those employed by Spottiswoode and Co., printers and electrotypers, who have struck. The strikers mobbed the non-strikers, who were protected by the police. Waterlow and Sons, manufacturing stationers, paid the men a week's wages in lieu of notice. A DARING ROBBERY. The occupant of a motor-car outside Eusden's, 3©wellers, Belgravia, engaged Mr Eusden in conversation on th© pavement while an accomplice entered tlie premises and stole £500 worth of diamonds, then rushed into the car and was driven off. There is no trace of the thief. AUSTRIA'S NAVY. Vienna, January 27. It is officially stated.that after the completion in 1915 of the present.programme, the 'Austrian fleet will include thirteen battleships, nine cruisers, and twelve submarines. The new construction, from 1915 to 1920 will comprise three battleships, three cruisers, six destroyers, and twenty-four torpedoers. MUTINY AND MURDER. Mutinous sailors on the dredge Irene Ruth ran amok on board the dredge in Colonial Beach harbour, Virignia. The captain and mate were both murdered, and one sailor escaped by swimming ashore. The mutineers grounded the dredge in shallow water ,y and escaped to the woods, where a posse of police is pursuing them. TWO DEATHS. Obituary.—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, the American authoress, aged 67 years. Her first book, "The Gates Ajar," was published in 1868, and she has written many novels and other books. Obituary.—Baron Winterstok© of Blagdon (Sir William Henry Wills), merchant, agriculturist, financier and politician, but best known as the head of th© Imperial Tobacco Co. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. The Duke of Connaught sails for Canada in September. His appointment is for two years, subject to an extension.