GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 26

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, January 23. Mr John Kensit, the well-known antiritualist, and others, created a tumultuous scene at a Westminster Convocation in connection with Dr Gore’s confirmation as Bishop of Worcester. Objections by the Church Association were over-ruled and the ceremony was completed amidst shouts of “farce” and “all lies.” The Middle Temple has disbarred Dr Krause, who was a barrister. LONDON, January 23. After the service in memory of the late Queen Victoria at Frogmore Mausoleum thousands of persons visited the building. To-day, being the anniversary of the King’s accession, services arc being generally held.

Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery and t lie German Ambassador were present at the service at Frogmore. Wreaths were sent by Emperor William and tho King of Portugal.

Emperor William attended a memorial service for the late Queen at Berlin. The “ Daily Express ” says Alphonso Xm., King of Spain, will be crowned at Madrid on May 17th. The Prince of Wales will attend the ceremony. A satisfactory trial of a British submarine boat was made at Barrow-in-Fumess. The vessel attained a speed of ten knots. , . Air G. von Zedlitz, the newly-appoint-ed Professor of Modern Languages at Victoria College, Wellington, sailed by the steamer Barbarossa. Air Horace Vowles, editor, and Air Brousson, city editor, of the journal “Truth,” have resigned owing to being compromised in connection with bribes by Air Whitaker Wright, manager of the London and Globe Finance Corporation. _ , General Yung-lu’s daughter has been betrothed to the Emperor of China’s brother. The Yangtze Viceroys declare that Yung-lu, who was Commander-in-Chief of the Northern armies, held the keys of the Imperial arsenal during the Boxer troubles in Pekin, and prevented modern guns from being used against the foreign He also saved the Europeans in the Yangtze provinces by telegraphing to the Viceroys to disobey the edict ordering their destruction. The “ Daily Telegraph ” says the outlook in China is promising. Yuan-shi-kai. the Governor of Chi-li, is friendly, and is the strongest ruler China has had for years. Robbers wounded a German lieutenant who was patrolling at Chung-liang-cheng. LONDON, January 24. The German Imperial yacht Hohenzollera, with Prince Henry, brother of the Emperor, on board, has tailed for America. Mr Chauncey Depew, the New York Senator, declares that Emperor William is sending Prince Henry to sound President Roosevelt and the Cabinet as to how far the Monroe Doctrine would be enforced if Germany occupied Venezuelan ports for an indefinite period in order to collect debts duo to German subjects. Mr Depew also states that me alliance existed with Britain, but that there is an understanding that in the event of trouble America will not aid England’s enemies by any act in any part of the world.

The Church Association applied for a mandamus to compel the Primate to hear in open Court objections to Dr Gore's consecration as Bishop of Worcester. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone said he was unable to interfere with the consecration to-morrow. The semi-official Continental newspapers are trying to discredit Viscount Cranborne's statement in the House of Commons regarding Britain’s attitude in the Spanish-American War. The American newspapers acknowledge that England was America’s best friend in a national emergency. The Right Hon J. Chamberlain states that the recommendation of the Co-opera-tive and .Trade Union Conference in favour of universal pensions, independent of character and thrift, is hurtful to the movement. Several meetings have been held in India to protest against additional taxation on tea The no-rent campaign on Lord De Freyne’s estate in Roscommon is collapslng, the bulk of the tenantry having paid their rents. No news having arrived by the mail steamer Jloana at Vancouver, it is feared that the warship Condor is lost The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, formeriy Viceroy of India, is in a critical state of health. T . LONDON, January 25. f.orcl Alverstone has provisionally fixed the hearing against the mandamus for I ebruary 3rd. Churchmen are satisfied at the prospect legal decision. “The Standard” announces that on Dr jore s initiative the consecration had been postponed. The procession on the day after the coronation will take the same route as was followed on the occasion of the Roval Jubilee, in 1887. J The Prince of Wales lias left on a visit to the German Emperor. The "North German Gazette” cordially welcomes the visit, and hopes the goodwill on both sides will be strengthened. Mr R. \ aile, a New Zealander, is a candidate, as a Radical Roseberyite, for the Ecclesall division of Sheffield in the ?,* f-o'omons, rendered vacant by the death of fen- Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett. thl iLf 6 op ? os , ed the late member at the last general election and polled 3230 5050%0te5.] Ashmead-Bartlett polled Speaking in the House of Commons, J V c011,1 1 Cranborne, Parliamentary See’ retary to the Foreign Office, stated that the occupation of a seaport in the Pertndi by any Power was inconsistent with the maintenance of the status quo A Mestern Australian flfcin of a million and a half, at 3j per cent., has been underwritten, and is being issued at a minimum of AlO2 10s. ac a The Chinese Emperor granted an au/ho foreign Ministers, who ance nl" UC,k i Wlt 1 i lhs P atlietic appearmSecfiy “** I,rotom,d +e? ir ;,!f rnesfc l the British Ministoi infornied the Emperor that King Edward sincerely desired that the independence and integrity of China should he maintained intact, that the happiness of the Chinese pooplo would bo fostered by the Emperor s enlightened rule, and that obstacles to the free exchange of commodities should ho removed and better intercommunication established. Prince Clung acted as spokesman.

The Emperor remained as R ;i„ * automaton. as The Empress-Dowager wa* • . behind a screen in the audSjJjjl

The Rev A. Favier Pn m , n n Bishop of Pekin, is apprehest?3j tacks on missions and converts in V** golia as a result of Prince Tn an .f Qfr citement to avenge the rejections J?* son as heir-apparent to the tW. The Empress-Dowager and cil are discussing Yuan-shi-kai’s to appoint six foreigners to international law, finance mim ° a naval, parliamentary and domestic n*' ernment affairs. The success by Japan with a. similar plan in / Tea

Replying to a question reaardim, Mauehuria in the House of Common! Viscount Cranbome, Parliamentarv Sw retary to the Foreign Office, said'Great Britain’s policy was to maintain tU status quo in China established 1™ treaty. 1 BELGRADE, January 23 A pack of wolves overtook and do. voured a party of eighteen persons returning from a wedding at Fsieha, in Servia. CAPETOWN, January 24. A fire here did damage to the extent of forty thousand pounds. NEW YORK, January 21. . Owing to a grain operator developing small-pox, the police surrounded three hundred North-western traders at Minneapolis, and compelled them to be vaccinated. The revolutionary vessels Padilla, Darien and Gaitau attempted to force a landing at Sabina, in Panama Bay. The Colombian Government vessels Lantara and Chicuato, assisted by guns from Lasboveda, resisted. The Padilla attached the Lantara at close quarters, burning and sinking her after the crew had deserted. The Superintendent of the Panama railway cabled to New York that- three insurgent and two Government vessels were sunk. General Alban was killed during the engagement. NEW YORK, January 23. Commenting on A iscount Cianborne’s statements in the House of Commons with reference to the action of Great Britain in connection with the Spanish-American war, the New York newspapers declare that England m actively friendly to America. Russia and Italy were indifferently friendly, Austria and France actively hostile, and Germany mischievously hostile. Nevertheless, except in American naval circles, the papers declare that there was no bitter anti-German sentiment.