CABLES.

North Otago Times, 27 October 1906, Page 4

CABLES.

HOME AND 'FOREIGN, ESBH • ~ JBj IMrto [(Pet Presv'Association.)' Received October 26, at 7.59 a.m. , l ' London, October 25. The Standard, criticising the Plural Votir.g Bill, says that if the Government introduce a bold and comprehensive measuve giving political qualification and redressing gross electoral injustices, they need not anticipate resistance from ,the Conservative members of the House of Commons or the House of Lords, but the Plural Voting Bill is only a shabby : electioneering dodge, designed to disfranchise public adversaries and to get up a case against the House of Lords,

New York, October 25. The action of President Roosevelt in appointing Mr Oscar Solomon Strauss Secretary of Commerce and Labor has greatly pleased the Jews, since he is the first Jew to hold Cabinet rank in. the Uniied'States. Mr Strauss previously acted as United States Minister at St. Petersburg, and is a" member of the Permanent Court t>f Arbitration at The : Hague,:. Mr. L. Gortelyou, Postmaster-General, will shortly succeed Mr L, M. Shaw as . Treasurer, Mr G. ■ Meyer, Ambassador : at St. Petersburg, ; will succeed Mr Cortelyou., Mr N.,H, MetcaK, Secretary of Commerce and Labor will be- . come Secretary of the Navy, and Mr : C. J. Bonaparte will leave, the Navy i Department and' become "AttorneyGeneral.

Paris, October 25,

: M. Santos Dumont's new aeroplane flew 70 yards at' Lcngchamps at a height of six feet.

Received October 26, at 7.33 a.m. New York, October 25;

The Japanese school children at Sar. Francisco have been segregated, part y owing to the prevalence of trachoma and partly to the action of the labor unions,

St, Petersburg, Octooer 25,

Belenlzoff, organiser of the roobery cabled on the 15th September, who escaped custody by jumping from a train, has now been identified among the suspects arrested at Moscow.. London, Octo'-er 25. The soap combine will begin reducing the pound bar to r5 ounces. 1h s action is causing a great outcry and indignation meetings are being held. Messrs Lever Bros., of the Sunlight Soap works, announce that the ounce .will be restored. Half the manufacturers are outside the combine.

Received October 26, at 8,40 a.m.

Paris, October 25,

i M. Sartiau*, Chief Engineer of the Northern Railway in France, explained to a party of British merchants visiting France the Channel tunnel scheme. This provided for two tunnels through chalk 50 feet apart the distance to be traversed being 34 miles, Owing to binds in the chalk bed the promoters consider the scheme tenable.

; New York, October 25. . ; The ringleaders of the "Black hand Society*' of New York, who. are kidnappers and blackmailers were captured during a midnight raid. Margaret Leslie, a well-known New York actress, was supposed to have committed suicide, but a man named Nicholas, arrested for selling Miss Les? lie's diamonds, confessed that he murdered her, a chemist's assistant ■ eing his accomplice. ' A fire occured m the apartments over the Chamber of Commerce in Kansas City. Twenty people perishtd In the flames and fifty others weie injured. ; The London Tribune reports that the Exema, treasure prospecting ship, visited Diamond Island before arriving at: Capetown, but nothing valuable was discovered.