CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1675, 6 April 1904, Page 55

CABLE NEWS.

LONDON, March 31

"‘The Times” and the “Daily Mail” report that the Kaiser’s operation in vember did not afford permanent relief, and that there is danger ox a recrudescence of the ailment.

Thb Post Office has entered into an agreement with Marconi’s company for an etheagram service. The* interests of the company are recognised in this agreement, but tiro details arc not announced.

The company’s receipts for twelve months have exceeded the expenditure by £10,600. Tho Japanese Diet Iras approved the financial measures of the Government. Tlheue do not include salt monopoly,' but provide for a monopoly on tobacco, with compensation to manufacturers equal to throe years’ sales. “Tho Times” announces that Lord Curzon is to be re-appointed Viceroy of India.

The president of the master oottonspinners states that the Lancashire operatives are losing £ I OO,OOO weekly and the employers £40.000 in consequence of the fact that the mills are working short time:

Steam freights to Australia, by measurement. have been fixed as follows: To Melbourne, rough 355, fine 455; to Sydney, rough 32s Cd, fine 42s 6d. The proprietors of the Aberdeen line £.n'nominee a throe, weekly service to Australia for the rest of the year, cancel iing two departures in July.

It is understood that the settlement with the shipping ring is completed, but tho particulars have not transpired.

Sir Michael Hieks-Reaeh ha* informed his constituents that he intends to retire at tho end of the present Parliament. LONDON April 2.

Outbreaks of smallpox- have- occurred at Leicester, in Leicestershire, and at Hebden Bridge, in the Wrist Riding of Yorkshire. Of 45 patients at the Latter town 35 were unvaccinated persons. LONDON, April 3. .

Tho High Cburt has granted an injunction to “Moka.u” Jones, restraining Flower from slandering his title to the Mokau (New Zealand) estate until further inquiry by the Court, pending on action.

ROME. March 31

Tho Italian police are seeking a dangerous Venetian anarchist who recently arrived, commissioned, it is stated, to make an attempt on the life of the Kaiser.

A Cardinal having received information of a conspiracy in America to assassinate the Pope, the Italian Government was informed of the matter, and has taken the precaution to have all arrivals from South America, watched a The Government is also exercising tlio greatest vigilance around the Vatican. „ Steamers arriving at Genoa are watched.

Two anarchists left Buenos Ayres in connection with the plot against the Pope

ROME

April 1

Tho Italian polios profess to attach no importance to tho report of a plot against the Pops. The Pope has appointed a Commission of Cardinals to co-ordinate and modernise the principles of the canon law. His Holiness is disposed to abolish perpetual vows in the case of monks an cl nuns.

PARIS, March 31. In the Chamber of ,Deputies, M. Combes (Premier) obtained a majority of eighty votes in defending M. Pelletan’s administration of the navy. PARIS, April 1.

Firteen thousand weavers at itoubaix. in the north of France, have struck owing to the- masters declining to bear the cost of a half-hour m reduction to ten hours a day

PARIS. April 2

In pursuance of a vote of the Chamber of Deputies, the Premier, M. Combes, has ordered ail crucifixes and religious pictures behind the Judges in the Tribunals to be removed and transferred to the art galleries. CALCUTTA, March 31. Lord Curzon. in a speech in the Indian Council during the Budget debate, emphasised India’s progress in the past five years, including the improved defence of the frontiers. He described .the work of administration as one of consolidation and restraint, and added: ■—“Beyond the mountain wall's of the frontier is a glacis of varying dimensions. Great Britain does not want to occupy this, but cannot afford to see it occupied by a foe. We are content that it should remain in the hands of allies and friends, but if unfriendly influences creep and dodge under the walls we shall be compelled to intervene, owing to the menace to our security. This is. the secret of the whole position in 'Arabia Persia, Afghanistan, Thibet and Siam/’

Lord Gurzon added that he intended, after his holiday's in England, to consult the native chiefs in India regarding contributions in the shape of troops to Imperial defence. CAPETOWN, March 31.

In the Jewish alien case, the Chief Justice of the Cape decided that the Grown may exercise its prerogative to exclude aliens. He remarked that the colonial immigration law does not interfere with or limit the power of common law. The .decision is based on the

finding of the Privy Council in the case of the Chinaman Ah Toy-, expelled from Victoria.

Ex-General Louis Botha, addressing the congress of Boer farmers at Krugersdorp, said the. Boers were willing to stay their opposition to the importation of Chinese labour if the Government and the.mine-owners undertook entire responsibility. The rich mines, said Mr Botha, were workable with white labour. He added that half a million natives in South Africa coqld become ip luatrions. lie deprecated the introduction of Chinese, but the farmers were willing to assist the Government with any measure for the benefit of the count ry.

Ex-General De la Roy declared lie did not approve.the employment of Chinese. He urged farmers to ask for better representation in the government of the country. Both speakers declared the Boers had abandoned all thoughts of vindictiveness. and in consideration of their privileges on local subjects, they would cooperate in promoting general reconciliation.’

Mr Edwards, president of the congress. urged that legislation was necessary to compel six hundred thousand natives to work. BUENOS AYRES, March 30.

An Italian beggar has been arrested on a charge of having murdered Herr Fay, tho German Vice-Consul at Salta, in tho Argentine. Personal revenge was tho motive of the crime. NEW YORK. March 31.

A woman named Mrs As!imead and her son have boc-n arrested in Philadelphia on a charge of 1 laving been accessory to the death of two young women at their domicile under suspicious circumstances.

Mr Dugan, the Coroner, in referring to the alleged existence of a. syndicate for Conducting illegal practices, declared that he had evidence that the syndicate had a anemia tor rum for burning infants, dead or alive, with the view of destining evidences of the practices. NEW YORK, April 1. Mr Dugan, the Coroner in the Philadelphia, inquiry, has ordered Mrs Ashmead, her son and a doctor named Vicar tor trial before a Grand Jury. Witnesses say that live babies, were thrown into a furnace, and that they heard their cries.

Thirteen thousand five hundred miners in lowa have struck for higher wages for unskilled workers, and a decrease in the price of blasting-powder. SYDNEY. March 31.

Tho Government Statist reports that the actual wheat returns received to date amount to 26,227,000 bushels. Adding to this the wheat unthreshed will make the total yield about 27,000,000 busliele, which gives an average of seventeen bushels per acre. . Notwithstanding considerable losses through tlio late rains and stormy weather, the actual returns are ten million bushele above the previous record. After a liberal estimate of the home consumption. and allowing two million bushels for seed, there will he between sixteen and seventeen million bushels available for export, Tho of wheaten hay is 452,000 tons. This, with tho large viohls of other hay, will give the State the finest reserve of fodder it ever had. Tho Government Statist estimates tho value of the wheat crop at £3,370,000, whereof £2,400,000 will he drawn from outside sources. \t the Royal Agricultural Show New Zealand bred horses figured well. Almont (by Rothschild) took the reserve for champion trotters, Glam Macdonald the champion for heavy draughts, and Royalist tho second reserve champion. For blood mares the reserve champion went to Wheaten. Mr -V J- Grant, of New Zealand, was awarded first prize for a two-year-old shorthorn bull. There was no other exhibitor in the section. SYDNEY, April 1.

At the show cattle sales, Mr James Reid (New Zealand) paid 145 gs for a voung shorthorn bull from the Aligns stud Mr Reid’s hull The Student was sold for 161 guineas, and Mr Robert Allen’s two polled Angus cows for 17gs each. ... Mr Reid secured two third prizes m the Skye terrier section. . The new German New Guinea schooner, calling at Durour Island, i'n the Hermit 'Group, found that the station of a German trader named Reimers was looted and burned by natives, and his plantation destroyed. Renners, who was the o'nly white man on the island, was murdered, and his body terribly mutilated. A punitive expedition was being despatched. Commenting npon Newfoundland declining to federate with Canada, the “ Daily Telegraph ” compares the condition of New Zealand and New South Wales. The “ Telegraph ” says. New Zealand, outside the federation, enjoys complete management of its own an an s, alnd is talked of and respected throng ioiuit the Empire' as no State of the Australian Commonwealth is. It has the right of direct independent communication with the Imperial Government. Mr Soddon is equal to Mr Deakm. and m-uoh more thain equal to the State Premiers. New Zealand, continues the “ Telegraph,” is happy, confident, ambitious and prosperous. On the other hand, New South Wales has fallen from its proud estate as the leading colony of

Australasia to the position of a harassed, dependent. State. If it had kept outsit o the federation it would bo better off to-clay, but in tlio long run federation, it is to be hoped, will abundantly justify itself, and New Zealand may be glad to outer the union.

SYDNEY, April 2

Tlio Labour Council considered and adopted tlio report of a special committee appointed to inquire into Chinese competition in various trades. The report, states that competition in some classes .of work is very keen. Three hundred Chinese were engaged in tho laundry and seven hundred in the grocery business, and 873 were hotel employees, but the last-named were affiliated to the union. They had taken every step to capture the retail grocery trade, especially in country districts, while 3500 wore engaged in market gardening, and had practically captured that industry. Competition was perhaps most keen in the furniture trade, in which the Chinese were about equal in number to the whites. In order to overcome this competition, the chief factors of the. success of which are long hours and low wages, the report recommends propaganda, work on the Chinese question, the prohibition of all Asiatics in the mining industry, the rigorous enforcing of the Gaming and Public Heafth ActsMbe entire abolition of Sunday worn, tho opening and closing of all shops and factories at stated hours, and the stamping of all goods wholly or partly made by Chinese. MELBOURNE, March 31.

A man named Seul-’y, a groom at Eagle hawk, 105 miles north-west of Melbourne. has succeeded to a fortune of £16,000 and a large win© and spirit business at Kilbeggan, Ireland, by the death of his father.