CABLE NEWS

Grey River Argus, Volume LVII, Issue 10520, 30 January 1903, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYIUGHT) (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Jan 28. Right Hon Mr Balfour in a speech stated that Germany and Britain had agreed upon a joint action for Venezuela in July last. It is announced that blockading powers consider the offer of thirty per cent of the customs collected ar, Puerto Cabello and La Guaira are sufficient to justify the raising of the blocka-Je. If none of the blockading powers are interested they do not participate in the receipts therefrom. Wfilliam Juke Steward, of New Zealand, has been gazetted as a Knilht v I

Th*? frequence and the extent of the Dowager's presents to the Foreign Ministers ab Pekin causes embarrassment since they are unable to reciprocate or refuse. The Oxford and Cambridge boat race is fixed for April 2nd. Ballestrem, ex-President of the Reichstag, has been made a member of the Upper House of Prussia. Arrangements are being made for the Mediterranean fleet and sixtyeight Italian warships to assemble at Naples on Kings Edward and Emani uel reviewing. The Royal Commission of University Education in Ireland rejects the proposed Catholic Denominational University at St Stephens. Archbishop or Bishops will bn granted a new college with Catholic atiae- j sphere. The commission suggests an j increased grant to Belfast Queen's College with a view to developing. Hongkong, Jan. 2S. Several Kivangsi rebels were arrested at Hongkong. Secret code documents were found in their j possession, showing a projected simul-i taneous rising in Hongkong and Canton. Capetown, January 28. A "VYolinarans and A D Fisher, Boer delegates who visited Europe are t© be permitted to return to South Africa. Mr and Mrs Chamberlain had a great welcome afc Maf eking, Sir H Hutchison the Governor of Cape Colony, Sir A Lawley and General BadenPowell participating. The Mashona natives' band travelled 800 miles to join in the welcome. The Afrikander newspaper liOnsland" commenting on "Colonel" Lynch's sentence, refers to the National Scouts fighting for Britain's pay against their own people. What; in one place is punished with death, is in the other glorified and rewarded. January 29. The Africantii newspapers praise Chamberlain's speech at Litchtenbtug and Ventersdorp as a wise healing and courogeous utterances. New York, January 29. The Baltimore-Ohio express travel-' liag at a speed of 65 miles an hour, collided with a local train at Graceland, New Jersey. A hundred passengers of the latter were killed and injui-ed. The wreckage ignited and the majority of the injured were incinerated. Many pinned to the debris begged to be killed. Rome, January 28. The Italian Cabinet has adopted a Bill for theconsbruction of the Marconi station in connection with the scheme of transmission of ethergrams between Italy and South America. Vienna, Jan 28. Servia has contracted with an Austrian firm for forty-five million cartridges and other war-like material. New York, Jan 28. Mr J D Rockfeller has announced his intention to spend seven million dollars in erecting a research hospital at Chicago with the object of discovering th6 serum curefor consumption. Calcutta, Jan 28. Sixty thousand natives feasted at Calcutta in connection with the coronation celebrations. Fremantle, Jan 29. In connection with the Coolgardie water scheme, Mr Chamberlain has cabled congratulating Sir John Forrest on the completion of the great enterprise, and his courage and statesmanship. Melbourne, Jan 29. The Assembly parsed a Bill allocating LIOO,OOO for the purchase of i seed wheat for fanners. j Fremantle, Jan 29. j Another contract has developed plague. Sydney. Jan 2S. The Evangelical Council has resolved to ask I he Governor General to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the grave charges made by Cardinal Morau on a public occasion against the chaiacter ot His Majesty's su't'jeets in a sphere bpyond ordinary British jurisdiction, to wit Samoa. The grounds of the request are that the honor and credit of the Empire demand that the charges, shall be searcbingly and fearlessly investigated with a view to bringing the authors of the crimes to justice, if proved to have been perpetrated or if found false, freeing the British officers and Protestant missionaries from the stigma which theCardiual sought to affix on them, and the British nation. J It is pointed out as the Cardinal refuses to supply the alleged proof, which would enable the aggrieved p u-ties to put the law in motion in the ordinary way. There is no other way of making inquiry than by a specially appointed Royal commission, Tlie Labour Conference adopted resolutions in favour of the State bank as one of the "fighting" planks, the increase in land value tax to 2d, and progressive land tax on estates over a value of L' 20,000 with the right ef compulsory resumption for settlement purposes.