GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9302, 19 March 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PERSIAN UNREST SUBSIDING. IPREBS ASSOCIATION.] TEHERAN, March 18. Fifty Cossacks have aridved at Tehean to protect the Russian Legation. The Govemrootr of Ispahan has resigned, and the troubles an© now subsiding. VENGEANCE. LONDON, March 18. Ramdi Pasha, commander ait Tribizond, was assassinated by a non-commissioned offioex whom he (recently punished. THE NATIVE QUESTION IN NATAL. (Received Mairch 19, 9 a.m.) PIETERMARITZBURG, March 18. A force of police has been sent to suorwound and' capture a pfcrty of rebels at Omapumulo river, Natal. A CHECK ON SCIENCE. (Received March 19, 8.43 a.m.) LONDON, March 18. John Monley, Secretary for India, on the grounds of public policy, refuses to permit the Royail Geographical expeditaom to lasoendi Mount Everest from tine Tibetan 6ide. Sir George Gordie protests that the Governmeajt is raising a Himalayan batrrier I against the advance of knowledge. THE NEW BULGARIAN PREMIER. SOFIA, Mairoh 18. M. Gudeff is the new Premier of Bulgaria. AN INTERESTING CLAIM. LONDON, March 18. The Attorney- General, on behalf of the Grown, put in a claim against the Page estate, of 60 square miles in extent, covering a third of the Middelsex Suburbs, London, and part of Htfrdto&xishire, worth two millions per asmum. There ds a defect in the existing title, which is 80 years old). A select committee enquires into tbei claim. DEVELOPING AMERICAN WATERWAYS. (Reaeivedi Match 19, 7.41 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 18. Piresident Roosevelt, in a letter appointing the Mississippi Valley Commission' to report upon the comprehensive imptrovem«nt and control of the river systems of the States, remarks that the railroad companies are no longer able to move crops and goods rapidly enough to secune the prompt transaction! of tihe nation's business. The only complete remedy will be complementary water transport. The Riverlea annual St. Patrick's danoe has been postponed until Monday next.