CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8072, 24 August 1905, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Per Press Association.) LONDON, August 22. Arrived—Banffshire and Wakanui. • Sailed—lndralema. Router's Agency reports that the Mercantile Club of Madrid addressed to the Minister of Finance ; Serior Oscaa) a report upon reform of the Customs tariff and renewal of commercial treaties. The report urges a return to freetrade as it existed in 1869, and condemns the policy of protection adopted in 1891, which is declared to be the origin of the labour trouble and the principal cause of the loss of the Antilles and Phillipine Islands. The docunient is much commented on in the'press and in political circles. MOROCCO, August 23. A band of Moors attacked four Frenchmen at the Marine Gaie, Tangier. It is reported that Germany has ordered the recently arranged private loan to the Sultan of Morocco to be held in suspense. SYDNEY, August 23. Some deeds forming a portion of the mail that was robbed on the train haye been found at the railway near Bathurst, indicating that the theft was committed after the departure of the train for Blarney. As a result of the recent bursting of the military rifles, the authorities, after inquiry, withdrew the ammunition, considering it-responsible. Arrived—Monowai. Sailed—l.3o p.m., Zealandia. MELBOURNE, August .23. Sailed—Waikare.' BRISBANE, August 23. Arrived—Waimate, from New Zealand. The "steamer Uganda, from Calcutta to New Zealand, passed Goode Island yesterday.