CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7629, 22 January 1903, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) | (Per Press Association.) \ (Received To-day, 9.29 a.m.) j PARIS, Tuesday. The Chamber of Deputies ■voted half a million francs to assist distressed Bretons. NEW YORK, Tuesday. The Marconigiaph enabled chess matches to be played between liners from Philadelphia and Lucania going to New York. LONDON, Tuesday. The Marconi system will be utilised as far as possible to fill the gaps in the Cape-Cairo telegraph line. The Daily Mail, in referring to the Marconi station at Wellfleet, Massachusetts, transmitting a message from President Roosevelt to King Edward, says it shows the advantages <•£ i.he wonderful triumph of science. The message read :—" I extend, on behalf of the American people, a most cordial greeting and good wishes to you and all the peopic in your Empire. LONDON, Tuesday. The sentence passed in October on Mr J. Roche, member for Gal way, East, has been reduced to one-half and the condition about hard labor has been revoked. The sentence on Mr M. Reddy, member for the Birr Division of King's County, has been confirmed. MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Parliament to-day selects a successor to Sir F. T. Sargood in the I Senate. Sir Alexander Peacock is '■ candidate. FREMANTLE, Wednesday. The Hon. Cr. H. Reid has opened a freetrade campaignhere, and has announced his intention to pull down the big fence of protection round the jagged coast of Australia, as well as to shape a liberal policy for the development of the primary industries of the Commonwealth. MELBOURNE, Tuesday. The State Parliament met today. Sympathetic references in both Houses were made to Sir F. Sargood. The Council adopted a resolution placing on record their high appreciation of his public services. Both Houses adjourned till to-morrow out of respect for his memory. LONDON, Tuesday. Of the reproduction loan ten millions go to Orangia. It is calculated nine millions are required to complete the purchase of the Netherlands railway, two millions the Pietersburg railway, five millions will be devoted to new lines and the nationalisation of the railways. The fund, arising from dynamite duty, will almost cover the expenses of the loans. SYDNEY, Tuesday. Following the death of his private secretary, the Governor's coachman was drowned while bathing at Mossvale. MELBOURNE, Tuesday. The Austral took fifty-seven thousand pounds Avorth of specie from from Melbourne and FremantTe. With the exception of £56,000 all was for India. LONDON, Tuesday. The recently announced displacement of the Governor of Teheran is officially contradicted. Advices from Caracas, Venezuela, state that the. Panther was damaged and two Germans killed in the attempt to enter Maracabao. LISBON, Tuesday. The Portuguese Government has submitted to the Cortes a bill providing for the completion of the harbor of Delagoa and the construction of railways us far ks .Swaziland. SYDNEY, Wednesday. The previous sweetheart of Ahear's zserving a sentence for attempting murder) inflicted a wound on her throat. SYDNEY, Wednesday. The weather is very hot. At Mtf (Hope it was 122 degrees, Marsdens 120, and Bourke 118. Many stations ithe thermometer ranged from 110 to 117 degrees. LONDON, Tuesday. St- James' Gazette says financiers consider a thirty-five million three per cent loan will be issued at the ; end of February and the first instalI ment of the four -per cent war loan in. January, 1901. LONDON, Tuesday. The foreign and native merchants i at Venezuela have subscribed £90,----000 of President Castro's loan. SYDNEY, Wednesday. The State Government entertained ! the visiting Boer delegates. The Premier and the delegates made complimentary speeches. NEW YORK, Tuesday. A great banquet was held in New York in Mr John Hay's honour. All the Ambassadors were present. The British Ambassador had an enthusiastic reception, far eclipsing all others. LONDON, Tuesday. Germany has agreed to permit the Rand mining, companies to recruit natives in South-west Africa. CAPETOWN, Tuesday. Mr C. Leonard, the Presided of the Johannesburg National Union, referring to the labor f|ursn:on, said he thought Mr Chamberlain iutcr.ds the Transvaal to work out its own salvation. His native policy was eminently calculated to increase the union of Briton and Boor. LONDON, Tuesday. Mr Augustine Bierell, speaking at Bristol, said the Liberal Party would in no way dishonour any obligations Mr Chamberlain may " enter into in South Africa. The St. James' Gazette, speaking of Mr Chamberlain's settlement of South African questions, says his monumental statesmanship will shine besides the achievements of Prince Bismarck and Count Cavour. The same paper says that his policy on open door matters and pressing for settlement has been settled while the future has been mortgaged as little as possible. CAPETOWN, Tuesday, Mr Chamberlain, in his Friday's speech, in replying to Mr Robinson, referred to Pa,rk Lane, London, as the headquarters of Mr Robinson and other South African millionaires. not 'Marie Lane," as previously telegraphed. The Cape Times 'says the settlement 01 the war cost is universally approved, the fact of Mr Chamberlain waiving his predilection in deference to enlightened local opinion, is another illustration of his intellectual detachment and responsiveness to facts. In the course of a speech on Friday, referring to the reports of his assassination published in Berlin and Paris, Mr Chamberlain said they were silly stories. Those cities were the last places where the news of his death would cause a depression. NEW YORK, Tuesday. A master mechanic, employed by Christiansen, builder of the American sixteen inch gun, died from overwork the day before testing ■ the guns.