GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9188, 7 September 1906, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE LAND SCANDALS CASE. . Ipaxss association.] (Received September 7, 12.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 6. The Grown ease has closed an the Crick - WiQis'Woe. THE LATE LADY BANNERMAN. (fieoe&ved September 6, J. 0.35 p.m.) LONDON, September 6. In the presence of several Cabinet Ministers, the interment of Lady Bannetrman took place at Meigle. The ceremony was, of the simplest character. Sir Edward Colebrook represented the King. IRISH HOME RULE. -flteoedTed September 6, 10.36 p.m.) LONDON, rSeptember 6. The directory of the Irish League reiterated the demand for an Irish. Parliament, and complained that the pledge in the King's Speech had been departed from in matters of vital importance. They also thanked ' Aiisferalians for their generous support. A SUBMARINE DISTURBANCE. (Received September 6, 10.33 p,m.) NEW YORK, September 6. - A submarine eruption occurred near IWp, Hawaji, and scalded the fish, which, in hundreds, were cast ashore. - Earth shocks were felt at Hilo. VALUABLE FOREST AFIRE. (Received September 6, 10.47 p.m.) ALGIER. September 6. One hundred thousand acres of beech and oak trees in the Collo district, Algeria, have been burnt. Native incendiarism is blamed. ' THE BRITISH PREMIER INTERVIEWED. (Received September 7, 8.26 a.m.) LONDON, September 6. Sir Henry Gampbell-Bannerman, interviewed by the Neu Freiepresse, said that while Rusiia hod no stable Government 't was impossible to remove all hindrances, to a good understanding or establish ajr entente similar to that enjoyed with France. Sir Henry, denounced the South African war as infamous and criminal and, wholly unnecessary. OLD AGE PENSIONS WANTED. LONDON, September 6. The Trade Union Congress decided to I i-rge the Government to establish national pensions of at least 5& weekly for all men and women of sixty. OVERDUE VESSELS. 1 LONDON, September 6. I The Times states that the market has. \ given up the overdue vessel* Ferdinand Fischer and Colombia. (Received September 7. 9.24 a.m.) LONDON, September 6. The Rodenbock, Newcastle to Liverpool, is posted oe missing. SWIMMING. i LONDON, September 6. . Healy won the invitation hundred yards at Edinburgh in 59secs, beating Yuille, the Scottish champion. He aLso beat Yuille in the fifty yards match in 26 2-5, sees. OBITUARY. . r (Received September 7, 9.24 a.m.) , VIENNA, September 6. Spitaol, an ex-Australian, and the late Li Hung Chang's adviser, died at Carlsbad, leaving two millions sterling. VISITING CRICKETERS. LONDON, September 6. The cricketers cadi for New Zealand on October 18. THE LAND GRABBERS. LONDON, September 6. Councillor Cunningham was committed to prison for having ignored an injunction against the grabbing of lands at Plaistow by the unemployed. FRANCE AND GERMANY. PARIS, September 6. Commenting on the Deutsche Revue, French papers ask what is the meaning of the incessant reinforcement of the garrisons in Alsace-Lorraine if Germany admits that France's policy is pacific.