GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8939, 4 July 1905, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

COLONEL JOHN HAY'S DEATH.

[PRSSS .ASSOCIATION.] (Received June 3, 11.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 3. All America mourns ~ Colonel Hay's death. It is expected that Mr Choate, ex-Ambassador to London, will succeed to the office of ; Secretary of State. ADMIRAL FANSHAWE'S SUCCESSOR

(Received July 3, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. Rear-Admiral Sir Wilmot Hawksworth Fawkes. recently in command of the cruiser squadron, succeeds „ Vice-Admiral Fanshawe. in command of the Australian - Squadron. *

IMPROVING THE MERSEY DOCKS.

(Received July 3, 9.57 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. Tlie Mersey Docks Board proposes to seek powers to expend four millions in improving -the river and rendering the -docks able to accommodate ships of a thousand feet in length. The port's tonnage has increased by 400,000 tons during tfie" past year!

THE MOROCCAN QUESTION.

(Received July 4, 9.10 a.m.) ~ PARIS, July 3. M. Rouvier and Prince yon Radol'n. German Ambassador, will exchange memoranda summarising the- verbal agreement concerning 'the 'principle of the conference affecting Morocco.™ France -will then accept a proposal for a conference, haviop obtained guarantees that the conference will not revise the Anglo-French entente or imperil France's " legitimate rights.

MISCELLANEOUS

(Received July 3. 11.43 p.m.)

LONDOa. July 3.

The Frankfurter Zeitung states that S'r Nicholas O'Connor, British Minister »i Constantinople, is pressing the Sultan to grant Sir William "Willcocks concessions to develop Mesapotamia,. to render the ligris -and Euphrates .navigable, and to construct canals in the plains.

(Received July 4. 1 a..m.)

SYDNEY, July 3. Another, case of plague is reported from ewcastle.

(Received July '3, 11.15 p.m.) . 'LONDON, July 3. jSir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, M.P. for Cambridge University, lias received the Order -of Merit.