GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, 3 September 1902, Page 47

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

LONDON, August 30. Mr, Mrs and Miss Seddon visited Cork, where they were entertained by, the Lord Mayor.

The Boer Generals-, interviewed by Mr Stead, stated that they had been delighted by the homely heartiness shown by the King in their interview with him.

In accepting the freedom of Cork, Cardinal Moran expressed sympathy, with the Catholics in their claim for a University and in their efforts to obtain the enforced sale of farms to tenants and autonomy at least equal to that of Australia. «

He was confident that measures which were now bitterly opposed would ultimately he conceded as perfectly equitable.

Lane, the Australian swimmer, has beaten his own 300yds record at the Liverpool baths. He covered the distance in 3min 42 l-sseo.

Trials of t-lie latest typo of British 1 submarine vessels were very satisfactory. The vessel dives very rapidly, and is fitted with visual apparatus much superior to the French periscope. Captain A. T. Mahan (formerly of the United States Navy), in an article in the “National Review,” asserts that Britain will imperil the naval, political and commercial position of India and the Far East if she concedes Russia’s claims to the Persian Gulf. LONDON, August 31. The Irish Landowners’ Convention, sitting at Dublin, considered Mr Wyndham’s Land Bill to be a sincere attempt at bringing about a settlement, deserving discussion and amendment The Duke of Abercorn, who presided, justified the formation of the Land Trust, owing to the Government’s apathy and its action in ignoring the United Irish League. THE HAGUE, August 27. Dr Leyds has refused General Botha’s request to account for a large sum of money, alleging that his secretary disbursed it to assist the Boer cause. THE HAGUE, August 28. Since the beginning of the war the sum of two million florins (about £IBB,000) has been collected in Holland for the Boers. Of this amount four hundred and fifty thousand florins (£37,500). still remains undisturbed.

The tribunal created under the Peace Convention has been convened to deal with the first case—the difference between the United States and Mexico, as to which country is liable to pay pensions to the Californian clergy. _' , BERLiN, August 29. The Kaiser, at a banquet at Berlin, said that the Triple - Alliance lived, throve and flourished.

The King of Italy replied that the alliance was the most effective safeguard of the peace of Europe. BERLIN, August 30. President Roosevelt’s speech on the Monroe Doctrine has caused a flutter in the German press, which energetically repudiates designs on Venezuela and Brazil, and attributes the suggestion to Great Britain’s desire to create bad blood between Germany and America. PEKIN, August 30. The Chinese Commissioners have signed the new tariff treaty, which commences at the end of October.

BUCHAREST, August 30. General Brealmont’s plans of the fortifications of Bucharest, together with the General’s scheme for the mobilisation of the Roumanian army, have been stolen from the military achives. Bulgarians, instigated by Russia, are suspected of the theft.

NEW I’ORK. August 30. The revolutionists attempted to storm Tortuga, in Venezuela. They were repulsed after five hours’ fighting, losing two hundred.

Tha miners at Temaqua Bluefields. Central America, resenting the protection of blacklegs, stoned the soldiers, killinc two of them. The soldiers, in selfdefence, killed two of the rioters with their bayonets.

PARIS. August 29. An immense fire in a wool-combing factory at Tourcoing, in the north of France, covered an area of 2600 square metres (2860 square yards). The damage is est'inated at three million francs (£120,000).

PORT-AU-PRINCE, August 28. The Provis onal Government’s troops in Havti captured and burned the village of Limbec Many were killed, on both, sides.