GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1746, 23 August 1905, Page 53

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, August 15. Admiral Wilson, with eleven battleships, eight cruisers, and twenty-four idestroyers, has started for the Baltic Sea. n LONDON, August 16. Antonelli and Barberi, who were brought >up‘ at Bow street last week on a charge of publishing regicidal articles in the newspaper “Insurrection,” have "been committed for trial. The .police have discovercd'rthat the “ Insurrection ” was printed in juondon (not in Switzerland, as formerly stated) by a Pole who is unacquainted with the Italian language. LONDON, August 15. The Ottawa correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle,” referring to Sir W. Lv no’s action in raising the, duty on harvesters imported into the Commonwealth, says:—lt -is stated in Ottawa that the Customs Department possesses confidential information on similar subjects which is not divulged even to members of the Dominion Parliament, though Canada maintains special officers i i the United States to ascertain American domestic values. It is considered the Commonwealth should a.ct similarly. LONDON, August 16Lord Strathc.ona, High Commissioner for Canada, in the course of an interview, said he could hardly doubt that the Governments concerned would adopt, the suggestions of the Pacific Cable Board’s report. He opines that pooling the profits and losses of the two companies and largely eliminating the expenses of advertisement would benefit everybody concerned. London, August 16. The London Chamber of Commerce is appealing to other Chambers to cooperate with local authorities in arranging meetings for Lord Roberts, who proposes to give addresses in all the large towns, with the object of arousing the public to sense of the danger of -weaknesses in the army. LONDON, August 16. The War Office has issued new and drastic regulations dealing with the sale of stores. The European vintage is likely to be short in quantity, hut excellent in ityLONDON, August 18. A Select Committee appointed by Parliament recommends that foreign vessels trading to British ports should be subjected to the same statutory requirements as British vessels regarding the load-line, stowage of grain cargoes., and life-saving apparatus. Sir Faudel Phillips, Acting-Lord Mayor, opened, in place of Princess Louise, a fine exhibition of all sorts of New South Wales produce at the Guildball. The exhibition is to be transferred to Bradford next month. BERLIN, August 16. The text of General von Trotha’s proclamation —which was repealed - tJhaother day—offering blood money for the capture, dead or alive, of certain leaders of the insurrection in German South-west Africa, has aroused indignation in Berlin. In the proclamation General von Trobha styles himself as “the greatest general of a mighty Emperor.” TKK latest indiscretion —ascribing the Hereros’ renewed activity to Prince Bulow’s repeal of the proclamation—will, it is considered, make him impossible in the eyes of the authorities. BERLIN, August 17. The Tientsin corresondent of the “Frankfurter Zerfcung” states that a man, dressed as a soldier, attempted the life of the Dowager Empress as she was leaving for the Summer Palace. The Dowager was uninjured. A soldier of the regular' army stabbed the would-be assassin with a bayonet. BERLIN, August 17. The orgaja of the German Navy League states that the Navy Bill to be submitted to the Reichstag in the autumn will include a proposal to build six armoured cruisers of 15,000 tons each,

the money for which had previously been refused. , , VIENNA, August 16. The Emperor Francis Joseph met Ring Edward at Gmunden (Austria), and accompanied him to Ischl, where the visiting Sovereign was entertained by the Austrian Eimperor. The meeting w r as cordial. VIENNA, August 16. The Duke of Cumberland (King of Hanover and cousin to the late Queen Victoria) and family greeted King Edward at Gmunden (Austria). His Majesty then continued his journey to Marienbad (Bohemia). BERNE, August 16. Five tourists were killed on the Alps yesterday. . . During a disturbance arising out or a labour dispute'at Granmichele, Sicily, rioters stoned the police, and set fire to a civilian club. The police fired, killing seven persons and wounding others.

ATHENS, August 17. Skirmishes have occurred in Crete between the insurgents and the British troops, of whom two- were wounded. Russian troops are also fighting the revolution in the Retimo district. CAPETOWN, August 16. The British Association for the Advancement of Science has opened its 1905 meeting. The president, Mr Francis Darwin, F.R.S., - sketched the attempts which have been made to formulate evolutionary speculation, with special reference to the principle of natural selection.

CAPETOWN, August 18

Many of the subjects for discussion at the present meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science are of special interest to South Africa.

MANILA, August 14

American surgeons here believe they have discovered an X- rays cure for leprosy. In six months they have treated twenty-five cases, which have apparently been cured. CHRISTIANIA, August 17.

The final result of the Norwegian referendum on the question of dissolution of the union with Sweden is as follows :— r

In favour of dissolution... 368,200 Against ... ... ••• 184 SINGAPORE. August 17.

Achinese attacked a Dutch post at Rambong, in Sumatra, and killed a lieutenant, a sergeant, and twenty-two men, and wounded six. WASHINGTON, August 16. Official cablegrams received at Washington state that the Chinese boycott of American goods has not assumed a serious except at Shanghai. The boycott, according to the reports, was unsuccessful at Canton and other centres.

NEW YORK, August 17

The outbreak of yellow fever at New Orleans is less malignant. Nine cases are reported in Mississippi city. An excursion train, when nearing Norfolk, was precipitated from a drawbridge into the Elizabeth river. The passengers were mostly negroes. Twelve persons were killed and sixty injured, while many are missing. A landslip at a quarry in Ormeroal, in Pennsylvania, killed fifteen men and entombed twenty-five others. It is feared all the entombed men are dead.