GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1748, 6 September 1905, Page 31

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, September 2. The birth-rate in London during 1903 amounted to 28.4 per one thousand of population—the lowest on record. LONDON, September 4. Mr E. Bowden, a member of the London Stock Exchange, has given the city £IOO,OO0 —including -616,000 towards the incorporation of University College with London University, £IO,OOO for East Ehd ©migration, £IO,OOO to the Children’s ' Country Holiday Fund, £30,000 to hospitals, and other sums to charities. N !“ The New v South Wales exhibition has closed. It was visited by 43,000 people. The press urges holding a Commonwealth exhibition in 1906.

- PARIS, September 2. Two officials in French Congo have, been sentenced -to- five years’ imprisonment for cruelty to natives. ROME, September 1. A fire is raging in a Genoa shipyard. Two steamers in course of construction for the Lloyd Italian Navigation Lint are ablaze. BERLIN, September 2. Cholera is spreading in West Prussia and Galicia, BERLIN, September 3. Forty-three cases of cholera have been reported in Prussia. Seventeen have proved fatal. BERLIN, September 4. Admiral Wilson and the officers of his warships were well received and officially welcomed at Dantzig. The crews of the torpedo flotilla were feted at Fiensburg. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 2. The Tartars who recently fought against Armenians at Shusha, in Yemen, left piles of dead in the streets. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 4. A great fire has occurred at Adrianople. Seven thousand houses were destroyed. Only fifteen were insured. The post office and mosques and the Bulgarian. Jewish, and Armenian quarters were destroyed. Many lives were lost. ST. PETERSBURG, September 2. A strike of railway employees has paralysed railway traffic at Libau. MADRID, , September 4. A bomb was thrown under a tree in a crowded avenue at Barcelona. Two persons were killed and twenty injured —ten seriously. NEW YORK, September 2. Baldwin, an aeronaut, ascended in a balloon at Greenville, Ohio, “carrying a quantity of dynamite, with which he intended to make a spectacular display. The dynamite prematurely exploded, and Baldwin was blown to atoms' in the presence of about fifteen thousand spectators.

BOMBAY, September 4.

In consequence of the announcement that a proclamation is to be issued at Simla on October 16th enforcing the partition of “ Bengal, the principal native newspapers in Calcutta are printed! with black borders.

Merchants in several parts of Bengal are countermanding orders for Manchester goods. MOROCCO,-September 3. The Sultan has expressed a wish that Moorish differences with France shall he referred to the coming conference between France and Germany. Count Talliander, the French Charge d’Affaires, has presented an ultimatum regarding the payment of an indemnity, with a time-limit, for the recent arrest of a French Algerian. SYDNEY, September 4.

. Before the Bands Commission to-day J. B. Stephens gave evidence that what purported to be his signature to a document taking up a certain lease was a forgery. He gave no authority for taking up the lease, nor had he paid any money in connection therewith.

The witness declared that the evidence he gave when previously before the Commission was all false. Hoskins, station manager for Willis, had persuaded him to give false evidence. - SYDNEY, September 4. In connection with a case brought by Mrs Scanlan against Heydon, to recover . £SOOO damages for alleged misrepresentations concerning property purchased by plaintiff on the advice of T. M. Slattery, the Court to-day granted an application for a commission to examine Slattery (a conviction against whom for lareer rr as a bailee was recently quashed by the High Court) sad his wife, who are stated to be re id dig in San Francisco. Three bodies of members of the craw of the schooner Jones Brothers, which was lost with all hands near Nev, castle last Thursday night, have been recovered. MELBOURNE, September 4. Mr Watson, leader of the Federal Labour party, discussing the proposal to send to Australasia and Canada, and probably South Africa, a deputation representing all the organised ' labour in the United Kingdom, says Labour will be glad to welcome the delegation, but the proposal seems mainly to be in reference to preferential trade, on which question he does not anticipate any ■likelihood of their securing unanimity Amongst the Labour people in Australia.’ However, there are many other questions which they will be glad to discuss and arrive at an understanding upon. ADELAIDE, September 4. The Premier (Mr Price) declared that the delegation would be cordially welcomed, but Australia was not going to be sacrificed to any tariff-bungling in Britain. A report submitted to the. Governor practically advocates the employment of coloured labour in the Northern Territory. Otherwise its development is not possible. “i; PERTH, September 2. De Winton, secretary of the KalgoorUe Club, with, his housekeeper (Mrs Lion), took poison by mutual arrangement. De Winton died,- but the lady took an overdose, and will r probably recover. De Winton left money to pay all his debts. He was formerly secretary of the Reform Club in London. No cause is assigned for the deed.