CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8457, 6 December 1907, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Elecf.ric Telegraphy-Copyright.)

Per Press Association. (Received December 6th, 8.34 a.m.) LONDON, December 5. The Daily Mail says in connection with the Reichstag incident that Hcrr Bloomet adhered to the fusion policy, but the vital question of how to cover a deficit of six millions is still unsettled. As the outcome of the pooling scheme, the Great Northern and Great Central Railway stocks have improved to the extent of two millions during the week. The floor of a Manchester boxing clufc collapsed, precipitating 30 spectators into a warehouse below. All were injured. OTTAWA, Dccomber 5. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, at a great political demonstration at Ottawa, condemned British Columbia's mistaken prejudice against Oriental immigration. He declared that while he exercised power he would never do anything to endanger the British and Japanese alliance. ROME, December 5. Owing to a large reflux of Italian emigration from the United States, as _a result of the financial crisis there, it is expected that there will be throe hundred thousand extra unemployed in Italy during the winter. The Council of Emigration at Rome propose emigration to Western Australia. (Received December 6th, 7.54 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 5. Mr Foraker declares himself a candidate for nomination for the Presidency. CAPETOWN, December 5. Cape Colony is issuing a loan of a million at 4 per cent., with a minimum of 95. PARIS, December 5. General Picquart, Minister for War, is considering the inclusion of the Arabs in Algeria in the conscription scheme, with a view to adding 100,000 men to the armv in war time. LONDON, December 5. The Standard's Berlin correspondent states that on the occasion of a mutiny at Zanzibar the Sultan asked British aid. The Vice-Consul, in the absence of the Consul-General, was obliged, as British warships were 100 miles off, to seek German aid. The appearance, of the German warship helped to overawe the mutineers and facilitated the officers' task of restoring order. (Reeei%'ed December 6th, 8.49 a.m.) BERLIN, December 5. Prince von Bulow's expropriation proposals in connection with_ Poland are experiencing strong opposition in the Prussian Diet. LONDON, December 5. R. T. Wood was committed for trial for the murder of Emily Dimmock at Cambertori. The Agents-General are arranging for ~special Australian wine bar at the Franco-British Exhibition, also an extensive refrigerating display. Dr. Ashburton Thompson, president of the Now South Wales Board.of Health, and Professor Haffkine addressed the Royal Society of Medicine upon the present methods of combatting plague in India.