CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1403, 30 January 1911, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

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(PEB JPBKSS ASSOCIATION.) BERON THE JEW'S MURDER, London, January 29. At the magisterial enquiry into the death' of Befon, whose body Avas found on Clapham Common," Eva Flitterman, the accused man Morrison's sweetheart, withdrew her evidence given at the coronial enquiry that she had seen Morrison wearing a £5 piece and said that what she saw looked like a shilling. The Magistrate is considering whether to commit the girl for perjury. Layman, a cabman, testified that he drive Morrison and another man from the corner of Sidney street to Clapham. DECLARATION-OF LONDON. The-Daily Mail publishes what it terms an official defence of the declaration of London. The paper points out that the ships of belligerents will have no immunities under the declaration and the securities of food convoys are dependent on their own navies. The opponents of the declaration had kept this view in the background, creating the impression that merchantmen, whether British or neutral, would sail the high seas unprotected and at the mercy of an enemy. The declaration secures and defines the rights of vessels of neutral countries and provides for a tribunal uncontrolled by the belligerents. The question, therefore, is whether local prize courts are safer than international. GEORGE REID'S ACTIVITIES. Sir George Reid, Commonwealth High Commissioner, has arranged to address a series of Chambers of Commerce regarding the Commonwealth, including the Chambers at Luton, 1 Leeds, and Hull. i PAUPERS AND GUARDIANS. ] The Government has introduced a measure defining the proportion of a | guardian's contribution to the old age pensions of ex-paupers. The statement made that guardians will be wholly relieved of such contributions is premature. NEW LONDON DOCKS. Improvements to London Docks include new docks north and south of Royal Albert Docks. The northern dock will be the finest in the world. A new and larger dock is to be constructed at Tilbury, and general improvements at other docks will be carried out. PERILS OF THE SEA. From. 15 to 20 per cent, is quoted for the steamer Eastern's reinsurance and 65 per cent, for that of the Aotea. The cargo of the latter on the-upper and 'tween decks is being landed practically undamaged. The lower hold is full of water, but prospects for "salvage, are favourable. The passengers in the missing boat of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's steamer Cottage City, which grounded at Cape Mudge, British Columbia, in a blinding snowstorm, have been picked up. by the United States steamer Snoshomish. The steamer Beacon Grange collided with the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Ruahine and cut sft into her above the water line. The collision took "place off Las Palmae. ..The Ruahine will h# detained for a "week at La* P*lm»6 for repairs. LORD GLADSTONE BAD BREAK. Capetown, January 29. The facts concerning the reprieved native in the Gladstone case are as follow: A woman and four children were living at Umtali. They were alone in the house, the woman's husband being absent. A powerful native, who had previously been in the employ of the family/ entered the house by a window at midnight and found the woman's bedroom, where a prolonged struggle took place. Afterwards,, the native again entered the house, but the bedroom was barricaded. The man had been drinking. Lord Gladstone, replying to Rhodesian protests, states that, after reviewing the evidence, he commuted the death sentence to one of penal servitude for life because there was a a distinct doubt, it being impossible to conclude whether or not rape had actually been committed. Lord Gladstone's view is. fortified, he adds, by the judge's opinion that he would prefer a verdict of assault with intent. Lord Gladstone concluded that the crime was unpremeditated, as the accused presumably entered the house to get food and drink. ANOTHER HOLD-UP. New York, January 29. . A robber, single-handed, held up at the revolver's point a. Colorado passenger car near Pueblo. He secured 100 dollars (£2O) and a quantity of jewellery, and then leaped out of the train. Some men followed,'and shot the fugitive in the wrist, and then captured him. The robber said he was drunk. RECIPROCITY IN AMERICA. New York, January 29. Advocates of a protective tariff for the United States intend to make a bitter fight against the reciprocity agreement with Canada. It is reported that President Taft will not hesitate to take the extreme step and submit the agreement to the Democrats when in power. Fishermen at Gloucester, U.S.A., raised the flags to half-mast as a demonstration against the tariff concessions to Canada. Ottawa, January 29. The President of the CanadianPacific Railway Co. declares that the current of traffic which has hitherto flowed, from. East to West will, nbw flow. South j through the United States. Wheat interests generally expect an expansion of the market. Sir Wilfrid* Laurier's supporters pointt out that the cost of living, is likely to fall in Canada as a consequence of the larger importation of food stuffs. • ,

London, January 28. The Times states that whilst America is to remit partly or wholly 91 per cent, on Canadians imports, Canada is to concede 34 per cent. The American concessions are not as considerable as they seem to be. The result of the conference strikingly indicates a change in spirit since the elaboration of the Payne laiv. Canada has not made concessions which need greatly alarm manufacturers, while agricultural and other sections have reason to be gratified. America will not admit paper until Canada remits the duty on pulp. The agreement will probably pass at Ottawa with more difficulty than in the American Senate. The Morning Post says that if England wants food, she must be prepared to pay more now that Canada has an alternative market. It remains to be seen whether the Canadian manufacturer will permit the lower rate on British imports. The agreement, not being a treaty, requires only a bare majority to pass Congress. The Spectator declares that the agreement amounts to freetrade in farm products. The obvious outcome of the conference is that America has given Canada advantages she withholds from Britain. This new reciprocity must postpone the hope of Imperial preference. MARIE HALL MARRIED. Marie Hall, the violinist, has married Edward Baring, her manager. INTERESTING DISCOVERIES. Dr Ohnefalwel Richeter, who is conducting explorations at Rautide, 'Cyprus, has revealed the supposed Mount of Olympus and found the sanctuaries and altar of Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite, and Philos. It is considered that Rantide is the Greek Mount of Divinities, which existed in the fantasies of the poets, who wrongly localised Mount Olympus elsewhere. PLAGUE IN*MANCHURIA. A Russian lady doctor and two medical students at Harbin have died of plague.