GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Mail, 17 September 1902, Page 25

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

LONDON, September 10. The King has approved a second war menai being awarded to those soldiers wiio were serving on Ist January, 1902, aad bad completed eighteen months’ service in South Africa.

The King and Queen will visit the city on the 18th October, returning via the south to London to attend thanksgiving services at Westininster Abbey on the 19th.

At the mstanco of the butter trade, the Agricultural Societies of Hamburg have agreed to the British Butterine Bill bemg amended so as to prohibit the sale oi butter containing more than 20 per cent, moisture, butter containing between 16 and 20 per cent of moisture being labelled adulterated butter.” The Tyser steamer Niwaru, whose cargo was damaged by leakage, has jettisoned twenty-six thousand carcases of mutton. , 0 contents of the other holds were discharged m excellent condition. .p Ihe edit or and publisher of the “Irish People ’ newspaper have been summoned under the Crimes Act for intimidation. LONDON, September 11. ihe staff of the paper have been summoned under the Crimes Act for intimidating tenants who have taken evicted farms. , Eilauea, in Hawaii, Stromboli, in the Mediterranean, and two Alaskan mountains are in active eruption. Signor Marconi is communicating perSpelzi a bet Ween r?onvR ’ all > Gibraltar and

. Professor Dewar, addressing a gather- . g at Belfast of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, declared that Germany was two generations ahead of Great Britain in general education and training and in specialised equipment.. The three miners who were rescued from the Union pit in the Forest of ean where they had been imprisoned tor 120 hours through the flooding of tnc mine, were able to walk when relief came.

The men state that they never lost *iopo, and spent most of their time in

prayer. They had ho food, but weie abio to obtain water. They lost count of time.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the conduct of tho Boer war consists of Lord Elgin, Mr A. Asher, M.P., Sir G. D. Taubman Goldie, P.C., Admiral Sir John H.pkins, Sir John Edge, Sir John Jackson, and Field-Marshal Sir Henry Norman.

LONDON, September 12. At the instance of tho National Free Church OcunciL an influential body of Nonconformists is being organised to refuse payment of the education rate under the new Bill.

There is a disposition to make the movement, a test question at the municipal elections.

Midnight outrages have been perpetrated on the estate qf Lord De Freyne, in Connaught. A number, of" Moonlighters burnt a hayrick and completely wrecked the conservatory of a mansion which had been purchased by the Congested Districts Beard.

The Duke and Duchess of Orleans have arrived in London, the King having intimated that the door of England was reopened to them, i Cavill, the Sydney nominee, heat Rillington and Read over a quarter or a mile at Swindon iu smiu 40sec. Laffar.'s News Agency states that the Standard Oil Trust is building twelve large steamers for tho transport of oil to Australia.

A Reuter message states that since the loth July there have been 20.323 cases of cholera in Egypt, of which 16.200 were fatal. Tho Northern Investment Company of New Zealand announces a profit of £7652, pays a dividend of G per cent., and carries fonva--'’ 0 209.

The Colonial Office dees not anticipate any conflict between Lord Minto, Governor of Canada, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, th© Premier, since Sir Wilfrid favours the efficient defence of the Dominion. The Battersea Borough Council accepted, after an acrimonious discussion, Mr Carnegie’s offer of £15,000 for libraries ip the borough. The extremists in the Council described tho gift as blood-money sweated out of the poor. Fifteen guineas per cent, has been paid to reinsure the ship PJeione.bound from Sydney to London, which is considerably overdue. A tremendous hailstorm has ruined the bop and fruit crops in Mid-Kent. Two hoppers were killed by lightning. LONDON. September 13. On an examination being made of the machinery of the steamer Niwaru, twelve inches of charcoal from the insulation of too refrigerating chambers was found in the pumps. This, it is supnosed caused tho accumulation of water in the hold. Submarine boats at Cherbourg exhibited extraordinary skill in out-manoeuvring battleships. An Army Order has been issued abolishing roll calls, except reveille parades on Sunday and church parades, and replaces regimental garrison guards by police. The order also permits soldiers to smoke in the streets whenever they are off duty, minimises kit inspection, and allows the men a. definite period of leisure daily. Coal fatigues are transferred to defaulters.

Britrsh tobacconists state that the American Tobacco Trust lost a million and a half sterling in a futile attempt to canture the British market.

The British cruiser Lapwing has captured three piratical dhows in the Persian Gulf.

The Welsh miners have sent a thousand pounds to the Pennsylvania colliers, who were recently on strike. Holmes, who a fortnight ago attempted to swim from Dover to Cape Gris Nez, and who gave up owing to sickness when six miles from the French coast, made another start to swim from Dover to Calais. Ho abandoned tho attempt after being two hours in the water, owing to squally weather coming on.

Madame Isacesen swam from the town of Melk. on the river Danube, to Vienna, in twelve hours and twenty minutes. The cable steamer Colonia has commenced the task of laying the Van-oouver-Fanning Island section of the Pacific cable.

LONDON, September 14. The Rev Henry Lowther Clarke, vicar of Huddersfield, succeeds Dr Goe as Bishop of Melbourne. General Botha’s relations with Mr Kruger, Mr Reitz and Dr Leyds have become ruptured. He attributes the failure of the Generals’ recent conference with Mr Chamberlain to Mr Reitz's defiant language in recent speeches.

General Botha declares that the Generals will devote themselves exclusively to raising financial aid for the Boers. The Dublin Corporation has condemned the Government for proclaiming under the Crimes Act the most crimeless city in the world. Serious disturbances have occurred at the Bothesda slate quarries, Carnarvonshire, where a strik© occurred some time ago. Lord Penrhyn, owner of the quarries, deolines to meet a deputation of strikers, owing to their behaviour towards the workers.

BERLIN, September 11. The speech of Emperor William at Posen has failed to allay the excitement in Poland.

South African tactics wore largely adopted- during th© German army manoeuvres, and every advantage was taken of the nature of Hie ground. English critics, however, consider that the firing lines were two crowded.

Wireless telegraphy was largely and successfully used during the manoeuvres.

BERLIN, September 12. During the manoeuvres at Frankfurt the Kaiser led a charge for a mile of 8000 cavalary. It was a magnificent spectacle.

BERLIN, September T 3. In the concluding manoeuvres at Frankfurt seventy thousand troops fought a brilliant engagement in theopen.

The Kaiser, commanding a vast body of cavalry, cleverly outflanked and overwhelmed the invaders, himself leading a furious charger -• English critics consider the infantry splendid, and superior to the cavalry and artillery. NEW YORK, September 11. The—Columbian revolutionists overwhelmed the Government forces on the outskirts of Santa Marta, in the north of the Republic. The dead were terribly mutilated.

t NEW Y'ORK, September 12. The United States is sending strong naval reinforcements to Panama, in order to keep the railway open. The United States battleship lowa is ashore at the island of Santa Catharina, o_ti. the southern coast of Brazil. A Brazilian warship has gone to her assistance.

NEW YORK, September 14. Tho cruisers Wisconsin and Oincinatti have been ordered to proceed to Panama and Colon respectively to prevent the Colombian revolutionists interfering with the Isthmian traffic and bombarding Panama. OTTAWA, September 11. Sir Edmund Barton, in responding to a hearty welcome by the Corporation'of Ottawa, referred to the similarity of the people’s constitutions of Canada and Australia. He advocated an all-red line from Great Britain through Canada to Australia.

Sir Edmund will be the guest of Lord Minto until Friday, when ho starts for Vancouver.

OTTAWA, September 13. A crowd was present to farewell Sir Edmund Barton.

In replying to a Board of Trade address, presented by the president, Mr Coates, formerly an Australian, Sir Edmund said lie hoped Canada and Australia had resolved to give to the maintenance of the powers of prestigo of the Empire equal and competitive assistance, not for the sake of what the ill-blooded would call “toadyism,” hut for the sake of ivhat the clean-blooded would call “patriotism.” This statement was received with cheers.

PEKIN, September 11. M. Lessar, Russian Minister, has advised the Russian commander at Manchuria to expel British officials conducting Chinese postal work. . _ _ PEKIN, September 13. China is urging Russia to restore Manchuria and to evacuate Newchwang. on the Gulf of Liao-tung, in return for the Manchurian section of the Pekin-New-ehwaug railway, as Britain is ready to surrender Chi-li section.

Russia’s hesitation to comply with the request is arousing suspicion. , PARIS, September 11. The “Republique Francaise” states that M. Pelletan, Minister for Marine, will stop the construction of the submarine beats now being built, and that he intends to build a new type of boat, of foreign invention. He also intends, for eoonomic reasons, to step the construction of big ironclads.

Specie to the amount of £BBOO has been stolen from the Bank of France. An impression prevails in Paris that an alliance. between France and" Spain lias been virtually arranged.