CABLE NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7632, 26 January 1903, Page 4

CABLE NEWS

(Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received to-day at 10.6 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. The report of the Transvaal Gold Commission recommends that all non-beneficially occupied lands he opened for prospecting. Received To-day at 9.27 a.m. LONDON, Friday. .Soup served in the gaol at Mac/-! borough, (Queen's County, Ireland, sickened 120 convicts on Tuesday and 200 ou Wednesday. Five are in a critical condition. " The poison was accidentally supplied. I LONDON, Riday. j Services comnieinoratibe of the j accession of King Edward were h'.'ld !at the Chapel Royal, St. James' | Churches and elsewhere. Salutes j were fired at St. James' Park, Wind- ' ; sor, and at Portsmouth and other ! j naval stations, where the ships were ' >. dressed for the occasion. Received To-day at 12.50 p.m. BERLIN, Friday. In the Reichstag, Herr Hcoel sea- ( thingly attacked the Kaiser's '"ivu.il- . Ed-fist" policy. He said the Kaiser's i gross insults to the Social Democrats was certain to provoke retorts. ThcKaiscr's recent Essen and l.reiiau speeches, he said, had added hundreds and thousands of Socialists to ; the ranks. Herr Bcbel attacked Ihe i Crown Prince for calling Socialises ; j "wretches." j j Count yon Bulow denied that Ger- i I many was aggressive, and said that the naval policy was not directed at Great Britain. ' LONDON, Friday. | ' Colone, Lynch, who was elected member for Galway, was found frailty of the charge of treason in connection with his services in the Boer war and was sentenced to death. LONDON, Friday. The King and Queen and members of the Royal household attended an impressive service at Fiogmore on the anniversary oi Queen Victoria's death. Numerous wreaths were placed on the mausoleum and many sta. tues of the late Queen at Home and in the colonies were wreathed with laurel in her memory. A service was also held at Whippingham Chu .eh. i 'NEW YORK, Friday. It is stated in Washington that if the allies satisfied of President Castro's desire^q^yally fulfil his obligations^^ewiplM with the professed guarantee in the shape of customs revenue, the blockade will be raised at the earliest possible moment. All . foreign claims will be considered on an equality. Received To-day at 12.50 p.m. (NEW YORK, Friday. The Germans twice ineffectually attempted to lanh 'close to the fort of ' San Carlos on Wednesday. The fort ! was terribly battered. Twelve of the I garrison were killed and fifteen ■wounj ded. The Vineta's erratic firing killed ; two Venezuelan children, and scores of native fishermen in the village. The Germans fired twelve hundred shells. Many did not explode. Two j h,t the magazine, nearly penetrating the walls. MELBOURNE, Saturday. A meeting of railway employees decided to uphold the right of affiliation to the Trades Hal!, contending it was not a political body, LONDON, Friday. Obituary—Augustus Hare, the wellknown author. LONDON, Friday. The Imperial Food Suppliers Association is issuing a quarter of a million shares for public subscription. Mr Geddes is chairman of the .Association and Mr I-lotson is manager. LONDON, Friday. The Bankruptcy Court granted B. J. Fink, formerly of Melbourne, his discharge subject to judgment f ">r the payment of a nominal sum. (It w_ll ihe remembered that Finch raih_d in Melbourne for an enormous sum, paying his creditors in the =B )