CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8198, 26 January 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright;). Per Press Association.) LONDON, January 24. Mr Asquith informed the Fife Miners' Association, that he favoured the complete protection of the Trade L T nion Fund from liabilities resulting from the judicial application of the Law of Conspiracy Agency Bill, to be introduced next session. Coopman Young, on a charge of adulterating colonial butter was fined £20 on one count and £20 on another. The prosecution did not proceed with the case in respect to a box of Queensland butter, as the agents are considering the advisability of instituting a special prosecution respecting it. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. Senator Lodge, in the Senate, discussing the Monroe Doctrine, said that the United States ought not to allow a foreign Power even temporary occupation on the American Continent. They should not permit foreign Powers to occupy ports on the Carribean Sea, which guarded the approaches to the Panama Canal. If San Domingo were left in its present bad condition, the United States might be compelled to take it in order to prevent others. (Received January 26, at 8.21 a.m.) NEW YOKK.Jan.2S. The police, investigating the murder of an Italian near Pittsburg, discovered documents proving an auarchist plot to kill the governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio. American exports to China have declined seventy per cent, owing to the boycott. Australian wheat has superseded American. VANCOUVER, January 25. The Egerias bluejackets m surf boats attempted to save the steamer Valencia's survivors in the rigging but the rough sea prevented success. Altogether 139 were drowned. MADRID, January 25. The Algeciras Conference admits the right of France and Spain to supervise contraband arms on their respective frontiers and acknowledges the Moroccan Sultan's right to watch the coast. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 25. The Tivonian rebels have been overawed by the military vigour shown and have surrendered their leaders, who have been shot.