CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7759, 8 July 1903, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Mr Kidman, a well-known Sydney merchant, who has returned after a lengthy residence in" England, says that New Zealand and.., Argentine meat shippers are continually improving their position, and meat from. these two countries is now well and favourably known, whereas Australia is steadily losing ics reputation. The best London hotels consume large quantities of New Zealand meat, retail 'butchers being alw-iys pleased to label it New Zealand, and many first-class restaurants announce it on their menu. The trotter Almont covered two miles in 4min 32 l-ssecs, which is an Australian record. _The Sultan of Johoie has engaged the jockey George Redfearn as a trainer, who takes several horses purchased by the Sultan to India. ' : Colonel Manning has forwarded Lord Milner a letter expressing his high appreciation of, and thanking the Boer Contingent for the valuable services, rendered by them in Somaliiand. Fifty men deserted from the British warships at Halif.ax.\ Some were-re-captured, arid some returned; •' A hundred and five out of 400 German sailors on the American squtidrbn deserted upon reaching Kiel. Speaking at the 4th of July celebration at Huntington, President Roosevelt said there was not a cloud on the horizon.j:"- All peoples were on good terms' with America—a first-class navy kept them so. .' .- ■ ': . The Standard's Johannesburg correspondent states the. loyal -press unanimously condemn Botha's speeches as mischievous. Am impression is deepening that suspects in Cape Colony hove prompted him.1 Dr McCarthy stated he was confident he would retrieve bis failure, and that rain might be expected on Wednesday. Large quantities of food are being issued to those who are workless. ' Noumea advices, state that there is a native war on Penecote Island, and as a result a child was cut to pieces, and five men on the Melisisi mission were killed. An officer of a recruiting vessel was shot in the arm. An old man named Ford was found dead in a hut at Lyndhurst. There were five bullet wounds in his'body. A sum of £150 which he had received for payment for land is missing. A rainstorm flooded a lake at Oaklord Park, near Pittsburgh, and burst a dam. A car crowded .with passengers and a crowded waiting" room were demolished, 100 being drowned. Mr Chamberlain opens the fiscal campaign at Glasgow on October 6th, and later he, will speak at Newcastle-on-Tyne.,... Several firms offer to raise their workers' wages in the event of fiscal reform raising the cost of living. Charles Hobson, alderman of Sheffield, was sentenced to three months imprisonment for accepting a bribe for voting in favour of the municipality purchasing a piece of land. Grand and. Jones were executed at Darlinghurst goal. The former when he came on the scaffold smiled at the spectators and nodded to an acquaintance. Jones was subdued and apparently in a state of collapse mentally; He died instantly, but Grand moved convulsively for some time after the drop, and was evidently strangled. The Cricketers' Association has endorsed the Melbourne Cricket Club's arrangements in connection with the English team's visit, with the provision that the umpire Phillips should not accompany the team. It was proposed to forward a letter to the Marylebone Club, objecting to Mr Phillips' recent remarks regarding certain Australian bowlers and his expressed intentions to " no-ball" them. . At a meoting in '-Melbourne attended by the Premier and other members of the Cabinet, and many members of Parliament and leading citizens, it was decided to form a national fund of £10,000 to secure the proper representation of Queensland at the .Federal elections. The speeches strongly condemned the Barton Government, and urged the necessity of supporting candidates who were opposed to Socialistic legislation. Mr Philp .(the Premier) said it was a bad thing 'to have a small minority in the Federal"Parliament, and if he held the control of the majority he would vote for the Reid-Government, as no Government could be- worse than i?ir E. Barton's. Already £2,000 has been subscribed or promised.