CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7622, 14 January 1903, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(Per Press Association.—Copyright). | SULTAN AOIIIN SUBMITS. LONDON, Monday. The Sultan Achin has submitted THE AMERICAN INVASION. LONDON, Monday An American syndicate has Wi chased St. James1 Hall, for the purpose of converting it into an hold and restaurant. DEATH OF AN ACTRESS. LONDON, Monday. Miss Maud Latimer, of Wilson Barrett's Company, died of influenza. TRAINS IN A SNOWDRIFT. LONDON, Monday A snowdrift ten feet deep was for- ; mcd m the Highlands, in which trains ; were embedded and delayed for ten hours. '^VENEZUELA TO WASHINGTON NEW YORK, Monday. Mr Bowcn, the American Minister , at Caracas, has started for Washington, President Castro and his cjllca--1 gues farewelling him. MR BEIT. CAPETOWN, Monday. Mr Beit has much improved in health. MONEY FOR LOYALISTS. CAPETOWN, Monday £700,000 has already been paid" to Cape loyalists for war compensation THE BOND. CAPETOWN, Monday. In-3 Afrikander Bond is Ktealth:ly growing tluoughout the new colonies. A FIREBRAND. | CAPETOWN, UmHarr. The loyalists oppose Mr Fischer's return, convinced that the Africanders will use him for the purposes of sedition. , DR. JAMIESON. j CAPETOWN, Monday. ' Dr. Jamieson has been elected President of the South African League. \ THE COLONIAL SECRETARY i CAPETOWN, Mo.'iday. ! Mr Chamberlain visits Potchefstroom, Mafeking, Kimberley and Bloemfontein. (Per Press Association.—Copyright), i NEW YORK, Monday. ' I Dr. Holleben, has started for Ger- ! many without calling on President Roosevelt or allowing flag flying for- '. malities aboard the steamer, whereon he embarked. j The negroes in the South are afraid to accept appointments. Several have resigned their positions. * I The entire South is in a white heat I over President Roosevelt's action in j treating negroes in a gentlemanly I way, and there is some danger of an ; outbreak of antinegro riots if Presij dent Roosevelt persists in his course of action. : VIENNA, Monday. I The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria offered the Princess the Imperial castle if she abandons M. Giron. LONDON, Monday. Concerning the situation in Morocco it is not true that Signor Silvela, i the Spanish Premier, advocated waiting and declared the Franco-Spanish [ alliance a mere dream. Moreover Senor Abarzuza resolutely opposed relations with France beyond simple friendship. Both statesmen are unwilling- to support a Spanish policy that may alienate Great Britain. Three British non-commissioned instructors have left Fez homewards. KOME, Monday. Two arches of the Procuratie Vecchi have been badly cracked. A portion of the facade is detached and it is feared the subsidences extend throughout Venice. \ (It is almost unnecessary to explain that Venice, the pile-built city of the Adriatic, stands at the northwest of the gulf, on three inlands and 114 islets, which parted by 1.57 canals, are linked together by 380 bridges. Since 1845 a railway viaduct, 1\ miles long, connects it with the Italian mainland.) PERTH, This Day. Dr. Jameson, Minister of Lands, has accepted an appointment as Minister of Lands in South Africa, with a seat in the Upper House, at a salary of £2000 a year, with £500 allowances.