GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 94, 22 April 1908, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

[PKSSS ASSOCIATION.] A JAPANESE CONCESSION

HONGKONG, April 20. In deference to Hongkong merchants' objections, the Japanese have abandoned the bonus or lottery on saleyards.

PROTEST AGAINST A DECISION. CAPETOWN, April 20. Sir George Farrar, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, and Mr Quinn have_ resigned their.seats on the Intercolonial Council, owing to Lord Selborne's instruction to its railway committee immediately to enforce the Railway Commission's recommendations. BANKRUPT SHIPBUILDERS. LONDON April 20. Leech, Harrison and Forwood, big Liverpool shipowners, have assigned their estate. AMERICA ABROAD. NEW YORK, April 20. ' ' Mr Nicholas liongworth,. President Roosevelt's son-in-law, has introduced a Bill appropriating a million sterling to provide residences for American Ambassadors in Paris and elsewhere. WESLEYAN METHODISM. LONDON, April 20. The decrease in the numßer of Wesjleyah Methodists is the largest for a Wf-century, namely: Full members 4392, trial members 1179, juniors 2435.

AMERICA AND RUSSIA. NEW YORK, April 20. Mr Elihu Root, the American Secretary of State, and Baron Rosen have adjusted the Harbin difficulty favourable to America's contention. SOCIALISM AND LABOUR. LONDON, April 21. A Social Democratic conference at Manchester decisively rejected a proposal to affiliate with the Labour Party.- . ' -•, •</• : .'... ' ,

NO CONCILIATION. LONDON^ April 20. A mass meeting of the North-east-«rn railwaymen rejected conciliation, and decided to tender their notices.