CARLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 808, 10 June 1903, Page 2

CARLE NEWS.

Pkr Pbiiss Association.— By Elißotkic

Thlkgraph —Copyright. MOROCCO. Beceived 9, 10.12 p.m. PARIS, June 9. Three thousand five hundred French troops, with ten guns, are operating against Figuig. Six hundred melinite shells were fired from the French gunboat Massie against Zenaga, and occasioned much damage. If the Arabs continue to be , stubborn, other villages will be bombarded. MAIL CONTRACTS AND COLOURED \ SEAMEN. Received 10, 0.1 a.m. LONDON, June 9. In the House of Commons, Mr Austen Chamberlain, Postmaster-Uenoral, said it was inadvisable to appoint a select committee to inquire into the question of mail contracts. An interdepartmental committee would elicit full information. As to the question which had - arisen in connection with the Australian contract, the Imperial Government was precluded from, excluding any British subject from employment on tho ground of colour, and it was doubly impossible to do so xv any contract where India was a party. ARMY SCANDAL. CONVICTIONS FOR " RAGGING," Received 9, 11.8 p.m. LONDON, June 9. A court-martial convicted nine officers of the 21st Lancers, stationed at Duhliu, for '"ragging;" Lieut. Willows, a colonial, for not joining in amusements. The* commanding officer was blamed for an error of judgment, one major iseing ordered to resign, and another, with two captains and four lieutenants, being censured, and their promotion stopped. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. Received 10, 0.1 a.m. LONDON, June 9. The House of Commons has approved of a vote for sending a relief J ship to the Discovery expedition. Received 10, 9 a.m. ; LONDON, June 9. . Berlita advices state that the report , that the Gauss communicated with I the Discovery expedition was incorrect. Inability to penetrate the ice i pack prevented wintering. Below 66 i .degrees sledding parties discovered i land. The ice broke in February, i liberating 1 the Gauss. I BRITISH TRADE. British imports in May decreased i by £1,438,000, and exports increased by £1,495,000 compared with the pre1 vious May. ; RAIN MAKING. | Received 10, 9.34 a.m. , MELBOURNE, Juna 10. , A suggestion was made to Dr. Mc- [ Carthy that Broken Hillites might rer fuse to pay for rain after he had made 5 it, op the ground that Providence sent i it, liot he. He replied that there s would be no possible doubt about it. He would send such a straight up and s down tropical rain as they had never r had before. f ______ 3 MISCELLANEOUS. i . 1 Received 9, 10.12 .p.m. 3 .NEW YORK, June 9. t An American squadron" has been or3 dered to Valparaiso owing; to social I disturbances. 3 LONDON, June 9. i The Sunday hospital collection at t St. Paul's Cathedral totalled £4300. / Captain Wells, chief of the Metropolt itan Fire Brigade, has succeeded Mr 3 R. W. E. Middleton as chief agent of - the Conservative party, s Received 9, 11.8 p.m. 1 LONDON, June 9. In the House of Commons, the Right b Hon. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of 1 State for War, stated that an onor- * mous stock of unwashed military blankets, stored at Capetown, took fire by j spontaneous combustion. Eighty thoui sand were sold for £1495, owing, to an ; officer's error of judgment, g- Received 9, 10.22 'p.m.

SYDNEY, June 9. The Bey. George Lane, President of the Australasian Methodist Conference, has received a DoctorsMp of Divinity from Victoria University, Toronto. At the Mayor's quarterly luncheon the guests included Lord Tennyson, and the Admiral and officers of the Japanese fleet. Lord Tennyson said that 40 years ago Imperial Federation was a grand vision, but now it was almost a practical reality. It would be complete when the colonies decided on a closer union for their common good. The preamble of a grand scheme of Federal defence had'- been signed on the battlefields of South Africa. ProSosmg the toast of the Japanese lavy, he said he considered the alliance would contribute to tHe peace of the world, and the advance of civilisation. Admiral Kaminwra, in replying 1 , said the alliance with Britain was received with intense gratification in Japan. Received 10, 9 a.m.

LONDON, June 9. , ?] he QHefnsland Agent-General, in a otter published in, The Times, stronffly supports Canada's objections to* the privileges Australia has granted to the Eastern Extension Cable Company. Received 10, 8.58 a.m. „ ,_ . „ PARIS, June 9. Gabx-iolle Bompar-d, who itt 1891 W&S sentenced ,. to tweinty years' imprisonment for participation in the murder of a process server, Toussiaut Gouffe, at Paris, has been pardoned. Bonipard was the mistress of Michael i-yrand, and the pair inveigled Gouffo to their rooms, and rniUEdered him. Bompavd confessed' after a sensational trial. Eyrand was sentenced to dpath and exeputed. ST PETERfe^URG, June 9. St. Krufcoff, agricultural pxpert, has bpen ordered to report upon the agricultural system of the Argentine when he has coirtplcte'd his report upon tho Australasian systems. Received 10, 10.21 a.m. LONDON, June 2. M. Delcasse, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, accompanies President Loubet on his visit to London. In the House of Commons Mr Austen Chamberlain, Postmaster-General, said the Government was unwilling to purchase the Spanish cable. No one could foretell the extent to which ethergrams would supersede cables. By a boiler explosion on the cruiser Good Hope an engineer «nd six of the crow were seriously injured. ' ' " " . ' OTTAWA, Juno 9. It is now stated that the dismissal of Colonel Prior (Premier of British Columbia) and Ministers from office was merely due to a difference of opinion as to the interpretation o.f the Independence of Parliament 4i.t Received 10, 9.52 a.m. SYDNEY, June 10. in , the course oi a speech at the Mayoral luncheon, Lord Tennyson Governor-General, said the GovefrnorGetneral's salary and allowances were sufficient to enable him to maintain the dignity of his high position and tuIW without ostentation public and sopial obbgatipns. Amongst wreckage washed ashore at Port Stephens are large 'quantities of peanuts, which evidently formed portion of the cargo of some vessel rm, w MELBOURNE, Juno lo! The Federal Premier states that latest information shows that British financiers are opposed to tlhe launchiwg of any large scheme for Federal loan conversion at present. This, f however, will hot interfere with negoff"*n9 between 'thp Federal 'ami tate Government's conversion at loans, • . m»

In the District Court, a claim for £11, for preparing the pedigree of the raomg miare Disfigured, against the Sultan of Johore, is being heard. *:]& case was adjourned to enable the identity iof the gultan to be formally proved. . . . *^ '