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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 March 1907, Page 3

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SPOTTED FEVER. LONDON Mar 25.—From spotted fever 115 deaths have occurred out of 212 cases. THE THAW CASE. NEW YORK Mar 25.—Mr Delcasse has filed eight affidavits, including one from Thaw’s mother denying Thaw’s insanity. NON-UNIONISTS. LONDON Mar 25.—The whole of the Welsh anthacito colliers have decided to protest against tho employment of non-union men. THE OLIVE BRANCH. PRETORIA Mar 25.—A groat bancpiet was held at Johannesburg to bid farewell to tho ex-General Botha. He appealed to all to work socially together if not politically. They now lived under one flag and were subjects to one Empire. They should l-t their quarrels cease and forget their differences'. They should meet personally and assist each other to adjust their difficulties. They trust ed Britain and they wanted Britain to trust them. (Prolanged cheers). A FRENCH HOPE. PARIS Mar 25.—General Baillond commanding the 20th Army Corps has been appointed commander of the 16th Army Corps as a mark of disapproval by General Picquart, Minis ter of War, for his indiscreet speech in which he declared that war was possible and hoped that the 20 ArmyCorps would contribute towards the restoration of the lost French provinces. General Baillond also issued a general order referring to the cause which would restore the lost provinces.

A MOROCCAN MURDER. (MOROCCO Mar 25.—A fanatical mob stoned the British Vice-Consul ai. Marakcesh who was defending his residence where a number of Europeans had taken refuge. He shot one of the mob. A Frenchman accuses the Germans of exciting the Moors against the Frehch. Enraged a' Dr Maucharap's experiments with wireless telegraphy, the mob forced an entrance into his house and stoned him to death; they also stabbed the body repeatedly. The houses of several Europeans wero sacked. “AN AMERICAN DELIRIUM.” NEW YORK Mar 25.—Mr Grover (an ex-president) states that tho outcry against the railroads resembles a delirium and presently the nation would bo ashamed of itself. He admits that some form of Government supervision is necessary but it ought to be planned quietly and not at a peribd of excitement. T|o appeals to the democrats to force tariff reform on the broader grounds of enlarged national life. Americans ought to abandon the policy-of selfish isolation which excluded other nations from America as a mark and cutting off Americans from foreign markets. A HUMAN iMONSTER. LONDON Mar 25.—Wrehager, a German farmer, was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment at Swakopmund for shooting a Herero woman for quitting work. He also tied a native woman and an infant to a tree and for got to release them. KIDNAPPED. CONSTANTINOPLE Mar 25. A. son of Robert Abbott, a British merchant at Salonika was kidnapped with in a stones throw of the British Consulate. Ho is held for ransom. FATAL ACCIDENT. AMSTERDAM Mar 25. Lieutenant Schuirman was killed at the Amsterdam arsenal'while filling a new model shell of his own invention, another man was killed and two wounded. RUSSIAN WARSHIPS. LONDON Mar 25,—The Russian war ships Oesareuitch Stava and Bogatyr were feted at Portsmouth. They proceed to tho Baltic. TRADE REGULATIONS. LONDON Mar 25.—The Hon Mr Lloyd George in introducing a bill to terminate preferential rates on imports considers it an anomoly to favour these instead of exports.