GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1536, 7 August 1901, Page 50

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, August 1. The Pacific Cable Bill has been read a first time in the House of Commons. The King and Queen will pi'obably spend a month in Ireland in the spring. King Edward and the Emperor of Germany will meet at Homburg on the 15th inst&nt, and will afterwards proceed to Wilhelmshohe.

The Cunard Company proposes to build a twenty-five knot liner for the Atlantic trade.

There is a growing impression that the Government will jf.ostpome the Bill deal* ing with the King’s declaration, owing to the number of amendments suggested.

Mrs Brodrick, wife of the Right Hon. W. St. J. Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, has died from blood poisoning. Th Boxers have placarded Canton, threatening rebellion owing to the imposition of a house-tax in connection with the providing of the foreign indemnity. LONDON, August 2.

The delegates c f the New York Chamber of Commerce who recently visited England have given £oOUO the Vies* tcvria Memorial Fund as a token of apj preoiation of t'he cordial weloome of the King and Queen and the hospitality of the English people. Only one new case of plague was reported during the week in South Africa. This occurred at Port Elizabeth.

During naval manoeuvres torpedo de* stroyer No. 81 struck a sunken reef at Alderney. The crew, guns and stores were saved. .Tne Royal Titles Bill lias been read a third time in the House of Lords. * LONDON, Auguit 3.

There was an excited debate in the House of Commons over the use of troops to overcome the Penrhyn strikers-

Mr Austen Chamberlain, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, states that the Pacific Cable Board’s engineers are satisfied with the contractors ability to complete the cable by December, 1902.

LONDON, August 4

The “Spectator” endorses a corres* pondent’s explanation of the South African Committee’s tenderness towards Mr Cecil Rhodes being due to his contribution- of £SOOO to the Liberal Elec* tion Fund, on condition that the Liberals retained the occupation of Egypt on their programme. NEW YORK, August 4.

The America* Steel Corporation is insisting on its employees resuming work on a basis of last year’s scale or wages. The men decline the terms, accusing the Corporation of withdrawing certain promised concessions. A great struggle i.n threatened. CAIRO, August 2.

Sir W. E. Garstin, Under-Secretary of Public Works in Egypt, lias submitted to Lord Cromer a scheme for coma pleting the irrigation of Egypt and the Soudan by .raising the level either of Lake Tzana, iu_ Abyssinia, or the Aloert Nyanza, in order to feed the Kile dura ing months of low supply. Lord Cromer emphasises the recoma mendation as one of urgency. Investigation as to the best route for the Khartoum and Red Sea Railway is proceeding.

PARIS, August 1. M. Gaston Steegler, a representative of the journal Le Matin, has started from Paris to go round the world in sixtythree days.

BERNE, August 1. Gallioth, an anarchist emissary from Paterson, New Jersey, who had been chosen to kill the Czar of Russia, and who was a friend of Bresci, the murderer of King Humbert, has been arrested in Switzerland.

BERLIN, Augxist 4.

The Empress Frederick lias had a renewed attack of illness and is showing signs of a failure of strength. The Em/' peror and his sisters have hastened to Kronberg. The King and Queen of England follow shortly. The Crown Prince of Prussia, acting for the Kaiser, will receive Count von Waldersee on his return from China at Hamburg.

OTTAWA, July 31. There has been an unprecedented harvest in Canada. In Manitoba the wheat yield exceeds sixty million bushels. Twenty thousand English harvesters are required in the North-West territory, and are offered ten shillings a day with board. Canadian shipments of hay to South Africa since the outbreak of the war amount to 68,000 tons.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 31. Two thousand Thibetans attacked Ma. jor Kasloff’s Russian expedition, killing ten men and wounding- ten. ST. PETERSBURG, August 2. The Russian Government is actively trying experiments with submarine boats. * WASHINGTON, August 2. The gold reserve in the United States Treasury amounts to a hundred millions sterling.