CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1679, 4 May 1904, Page 31

CABLE NEWS.

LONDON, April 30. The steamer Equateni, from Syria, was quarantined at Marseilles, owing to a suspected case of plague on board. Mr Winston Churchill has accept''-, the Liberals’ invitation to contest x'n: North-west Manchester seat as a fr ’ - trader at the general elections. He ; - vours the entire public control of a.’ State-aided schools, but declines to support a separate Parliament for Ireland and the Disestablishment of the Church. LONDON, May 1. Colonel Sarafoff, one of the most prominent members of the Macedonian Revolutionary Committee, has made a statement regarding the capture of M ss Stone, an American missionary, in October of 1901, and her release in the fallowing February on payment of a ransom of £27,000. Colonel Sarafoff says the Macedonian leaders kidnapped Miss, Stone, and that £14,500 (Turkish) went into the war chest. BERLIN. May 2. Referring in his recent speech at Karlsruhe to the serious times now being experienced, the Kaiser said there* was a possibility of Germany entering the arena of world’s politics. His Majesty’s statement lias produced a deep impression in Germany, and has had the effect of depressing the Bourse. The press admits the seriousness of the Anglo-French entente, and considers Britain ivs at present triumphant. The newspapers earnestly appeal to- the nation to greatly increase the. navy. MADRID April 29. "As the result of an explosion in a colliery at Toscina, Andalusia, followed by. a subsidence, fifty men were killed and ten injured. The latter were extricated. There are others still entombed. Later advices state that addition* al dead and injured have been recover* ed. NEW YORK. April 29. - The Democratic leader in the United States Senate complained that the United States military and naval ex penditure, including pensions, amount-, ed to £77,000,000 annually, exceeding even Britain’s. Ho attributed it to America’s efforts to become a great world Power, and, m his opinion, it was certain to result "n increased taxation. NEW YORK, May 1. President Roosevelt, in the presence of Ambassadors, members of the Cabinet, and others at White House, Washington, pressed the golden key releasing the machinery and unfurling the flags at the World’s Fair at St. Louis, where there are one hundred thousand visitors. - It is probable that the Fair will be infill] working order in a month. Twenty-five thousand workmen are still engaged finishing the exhibition. The Fair covers 1240 acres, of which 123 acres are roofed in. The cost amounts to £10,000,000 sterling, in addition to £3,000,000 paid to France fo*r the Louisiana territory. SYDNEY, May 1. A serious outbreak of anthrax lias occurred at_ Stroud, where an owner of cattle While skinning diseased animals contracted the'disease and died. Mr Watson, the Premier of the Commonwealth, is at present in Sydney. He told an interviewer that- lie did net see any likelihood of the Labour party entering into a coalition with Mr Donkin at the present time. Their immediate work seemed to preclude the idea of having to seek assistance from the other parties. Advices received from Port Darwin state that nine Chinese who arrived by tihe Cliingftu were /refused admission by the federal authorities and placed aboard the* Changsha for deportation. Acting on instruction!; from the South Australian Government, a force of police boarded the latter vessel and forcibly removed the Chinese atshore. The federal Minister of External Affairs ■intends to make an example of the law-breakers, and states that the federal law supersedes State legislati r.i on the subject. ■ MELBOURNE, April 30. The “Age” is making unmerciful attacks on -Mr Reid, evidently with'a view to keeping Mr Beakin and him apart.