CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8537, 18 March 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Per Press Association. OTTAWA, March 17. A procession of a thousand unemployed in Toronto marched to the City Hall and demanded tho initiation of relief works. The Mayor promised to afford sorao assistance. CAPETOWN, March 17. The Dutostspan diamond mine at Kimberley is to be closed in April. LONDON, March 17. Reports from Morocco state that on Monday troops under General d'Amade, the French commander in the Rabat district, attacked and routed 2000 Moors near Fawi el Urimi. The tribesmen's camp was captured at the point of the bayonet, and the casualties among the defenders were heavy. (Received March 18th, 8.8 a.m.) LONDON, March 17. Mr Asquith's chauffeur was fined £4 for driving Mr Asquith at an excessive speed in St. James' Park. The plea of privilege was disregarded. Tho Daily Express states that the budget will provide for penny postage between Great Britain and America. The Times asserts that the Government proposes to adjourn in July and hold an autumn session in October. Florence Nightingalo's nephew received at the Guildhall on her behalf the freedom of the city. The City Chamberlain remarked that it was etrango that an earlier generation of civic authorities had failed to distinguish themselves by lKjnouring Miss Nightingale. The Government state that the foot-and-mouth disease in Edinburgh is stamped out. Tho Hon. T. Price. Premier of South Australia, interviewed by the Morning Post, explained that Australia's attitude to military defence was partly prompted by fear that a great awakening in China might constitute a Yellow peril; also, Australia desired to fulfil her part in Imperial defence. He declared protection for Australia was a fixed policy, with preference to England. He declined to discuss Home labour problems, and declared an English investor need not fear confiscation or breach of agreements in Australia. (Received March 18th. 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 17. McLeod, an ex-convict, committed a burglary at the residence of, and shot, Mr Montgomery Fleming, a well-known Glasgow resident, who thrice fired his revolver and killed McLcod. The hearing of tho petition for the compulsory winding up. of Sir James Laing and Sons was adjourned in order to cross-examine witnesses. Counsel stated that the company, since 1906, had lost upwards of a quarter of a million. No reason was tendered for tho losses. Owing to the insults of Labourites to tho Hon. J. Dunsmuir, Governor of British Columbia, as tho result of his attitude towards the Japanese, he is retiring, after selling his mining properties to an English syndicate for three millions sterling. Details of the defeat of M'dhas tribesmen show that they wore driven between unscaleable cliffs at the Achacho hills, and hundreds mowed down, until the "cease fire" was ordered for humanity's NICE, March 17. Wilding and Ritchie beat the brothers Doherfy by three sets to one for the South of Franco championship at Nice. LONDON, March 17. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is weakor, but passed a good night, and has taken nourishment well. Tho British sloop-of-war Shearwater, stationed nt Iquique, is searching the adiacont islands for any survivors of the shin Silherhorn. reported on November 29th to have been burned at sea.