LATE CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1611, 14 January 1903, Page 33

LATE CABLE NEWS.

LONDON, January 10

The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants Iras adopted a rule providing for members to subscribe a shilling a year to support labour representatives, and another rule making the executive committee _ omnipotent in sanctioning or forbidding strikes. Xiie death is announced of Lord Pirbright, aged sixty-three. [Lord Pirbright, as tlio Hon Henry de Worms, was Parliamentary Secretary to ‘ the Board of Trade from 1885 till 1880, and Under - Secretary for the Colonies from 1888 till 1892. He was raised to the peerage in. 1895. Lord Pirbright was President of the Conference on Sugar Bounties m 1888. His published books include a work on “ England’s Policy in the East,” and a translation, of the memoirs of Count Beust, of Austria.] LONDON, January 11.

Seven hundred and fifty families were evicted at the Denby colleries, in Yorkshire. The dispute was connected with, the payment of fifty colliers for hag-dirt. Three tribunals, including a joint committee of the owners and the Miners’ Union, decided against the claimants, yet all struck, out of sympathy.^ The strikers have sacrificed £170,000 in wages, and have absorbed £30,000 of the funds of the Miners’ Union. LONDON, January 12.

The Morgan Trust is building twelve steamers of the Celtic type (20,90-1 tons) for the Atlantic trade. Six of the vessels will be constructed in American yards, and six by British builders, at a cost of half a million each. Distrusting his brother’s popularity, the Sultan of Morocco has re-arrested Muley Slahomined, . who was recently said to have been appointed Generalissimo and Governor at Fez, and has appealed to all the Governors to send arms and men. The Pretender is advancing onlez. European lady missionaries will return to Tangier. The Spanish Ambassador m London, the Duke de Maadas, states that I ieto, the man who is under arrest at Madrid for shooting at King Alfonso, did not fire at the King, but at the Duke de Sotomayor, the Grand Chamberlain, who had refused him an interview. A soldier cut Fieto down and prevented him firing a second time. Mr R. W. Hanbury, President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at a fanners’ conference at Leicester, said the corn duty was an object lesson. It had not increased the price of bread, and it would be very interesting to see how far, without injuring home oustomers, it was possible to make foreigners pay on a good many articles sent to Britain. _ ROSIE, January 9. It is semi-officially announced in the newspaper cc Tribunal* of Rome, that Russia considers the right to a passage through the Dardanelles as compensation due to her by Turkey for moderating her counsels relative to Balkan a£ST. PETERSBURG. January 10. Russia will permit China to appoint a Commissioner to co-operate with the Customs Commission at Dalny. \ BERLIN, January 12. The deficit in the German Budget of eleven millions, necessitating heavy loans, is officially attributed to commercial and industrial depression. CAPETOWN, January 9. The railway servants in South Africa, to Le number of three thousand, have organised and formed a union. NEW YORK, January 10. Mr Hay, Secretary o'f State, has ac-

cepted China’s proposal to pay the war indemnity on a silver basis. President Roosevelt is perturbed concerning the feeling which has been aroused both North and South over his appointment of a negro Collector of Customs at the port of Charlestown. The “ New York Herald ” strongly disapproves such appointments, and adds that the attitude of Southerners towards negroes, whether due to custom, creed or prejudice, is very uncompromising, and requires great circumspection in its treatment. NEW YORK, January 12.

Brigadier-General Chaffee, who commanded the United States troops at tile relief of the Legations at Pekin-, speaking at Brooklyn, said that whde in China he knew where treasure to tlie extent of eighty million dollars was hidden. in the Forbidden City at Pekin. He planned to seize this, with the object of retaining sufficient to pay the indemnity and ret/urn ing the rest, but President McKinley forbade him to do so.

SYDNEY, January 11.

Two hundred pounds’ worth of boots were stolen by burglars from Walters’s boot factory-at Fort street Lodge. A youth named James, while bathing in tlie Lane Cove river, had one of his legs terribly mangled by a shark, and died from his injuries.

A proposal to send an Australian team to Bisley to defend the Kolapure Cup is being actively canvassed. SYDNEY, January 12. At the stock sales at. Homebush today prices wore easier. Best crossbred wethers brought lbs, eietra 19s 6d, good 14s to 15s, medium 10s Gd, best ewes 14s 6d, extra 20s 3u, good- 13s to 14s, medium 10s. Some cattle of good quality was offered. Best- bullocks fetched £l6 12s 6d, good £l2. medium £B, best cows £lO, ° good £B, medium £6 15s ; best beef sold at, 40s per 1001 b. MELBOURNE, January 11.

A large’ plate-glass window of Way’s jeweller’s shop in Bourke street was smashed and a seventy-ounce bar of gold stolen. BRISBANE, January 11.

A woman named Roberts an and three children were burned to death through the destruction of their dwelling at Mudgee, a small town nine miles from here. BRISBANE January 12.

The third victim of the ptomaine poisoning cases —in which three children were attacked after eating corned beef two of whom were previously reported to have died—has succumbed.