GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1775, 14 March 1906, Page 31

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, March 10. The “Standard” reports that the Avhole of the late King Christian’s personal estate of £156,550 goes to Prince Waldemar (his third son). The report of the 1901 census in the British Empire has been published. A general recovery has occurred on the Stock Exchange, oAving to improved prospects for settlement at the Algeciras Conference, and to a better feeling prevailing as a result of the Gov- ' ernment’s policy in regard to South Africa.

Sir John Forrest, Treasurer in tho Australian Commonwealth Ministry, Avho is visiting England, called upon Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and all the Ministers. He also interviewed Lord Elgin on matters of colonial importance, and conferred AvitE tho Treasury relative to the conversion of loans, the decimal currency, and silver coinage. He also intervieAved Sir Sydenham Clarke, ex-Governor of Victoria, on the question of defence. A test mobilisation of sixty Avarsliips of the reserve division will be held l at Sheernesg and Chatham to-day. There are sixty Avar. ships in the reserve division, including destroyers, manned by full crews Mr Keir-Hardie repudiates the interview which appeared in the Brussels journal “ Patriote ” regarding ill-treat-ment of natKes in Australia. He says lie spoke through an interpreter, and the opinions as reported regarding Australia are opposite to the state of affairs existing to-day. LONDON, March 11.

Mr John Devlin is starting for Australia to-day on a political mission. He is deputed to invite Irish exiles there to assist in the formation of an Irish national organisation, which will be an auxiliary to the American United Irish League. Voluntary offerings of the Anglican Church during 1905 amounted to over £8,000,000. The international Rugby match Ireland v. Wales Avas Avon by Ireland by a goal and tivo tries to l two tries. Roberts, conceding 20(70 points, beat Weiss in a billiard match by 9000 to 7886.

Viscount Hayashi, Japanese Ambassador to London, lias been admitted as Past Grand Warden of the English Constitution of Freemasons.

The Order of Foresters is providing a million dollars to form a settlement in the north-west of Canada with immigrants selected by the Salvation Army. LONDON, March 12. News has been received from India that an earthquake at Bashahr, . in the Punjaub district, resulted in eight persons being killed and twenty-six iijured. Oxford University has accepted the late Mr Stephen William Silver’s collection of New Zealand birds. LONDON, March 12. Fifty women advocating female suffrage attempted to see Sir H. C. Bannerman without appointment. When the Premier declined to receive them, they refused to disperse. Several were arrested, but subsequently released. BERLIN, March 11.

Germany will propose at the Postal Union Conference at Rome to increase the weight of letters bearing a minimum postage rate to twenty grammes. CHRISTIANIA, March 9.

An avalanche destroyed some fishermen’s huts at the Lofoden Islands, a group belonging to tlie province of Nordland (Norway), situated west of the mainland. . , Twenty-one fishermen Were killed and thirty-nine seriously injured. PARIS, March 11.

A submarine was successfully steered in the Antibes harbour, on the coast of France, by means of Hertzian waves. M. Semen, a Radical Republican, is forming a French Ministry. M. Bourgeois will he Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Poineare is assisting in allotting the portfolios. LONDON, March 12. Reuter’s Paris representative states that MM. Clemenceau and Briand (Socialist Deputy for Loire) have been offered portfolios in the new Ministry, the former a® Minister of the Interior. M.sSarrien (who is forming the Cabinet)., is to be Minister of Justice and M. Etienne Minister of War.

PARIS, March 12. The Pope has summoned seven French bishop® to resign.

CAPETOWN, March 12. In the Rampur district Gobizembe’s location has been divided between two chiefs. Gobizembe and his tribe have

beep fined twelve hundred cattle and three thousand five hundred sheep. TTmskoveli has delivered a hundred cattle as payment of a fine imposed by Colonel Mackenzie.

TOKIO, March 11. Commerce and trade are approaching their normal condition in Manchuria. The Japanese troops will be withdrawn in a few days.

NEW YOItK, March 9.

The Mutual Life Company of -New York reports a decrease of £9,500,000 sterling in new business during the year 1905.

NEW: YORK, March 10.

An American Tobacco Trust, with a capital of £6,000,000 sterling, is being formed to fight the Imperial Company for the purchase of the leaf yield. The subpoena calling upon Mr Rockefeller to testify at the Anti-Trust

Commission has been abandoned, the Oil - Trust officials , having arranged to give evidence.

SYDNEY, March 10. Arnst. the New Zealand cyclist, • hais qualified for the final, and Dan Plunkett (formerly of Wellington) for a special semi-final, in the Sydney Thousand.

At the New South Wales tennis championship tournament Dr Sharp, the holder, beat S. N. Doust in the singles, 6—l, v —2, 6—2. In the doubles championship Dr Sharp and Wright, the holders, beat Dr Pockler and Doust, 6 —4, 6 —3, 5—7, I—6, 6—4. Ladies’ Singles—-Mies Baker beat Miss Gardiner. 6—2, 6—l. ’ Mr Oliver declared at the railway inquiry that Mr Fehon’s statement regarding the- late Mr Eddy writing out his resignation was utterly untrue and unfounded.

A match took place to-day between the yachts Rawhiti and Bona, over a nineteen miles ocean course. The breeze was flukev. TT>a Rawhiti leu through-

out, and once dear of the heads soon established a long lead. She proved her excellent sea-going capabilities, and crossed the line 6mih 48seo ahead of the Bona. The captain of the Bona admits that the Rawhiti got away from the Bona at every turn and beat her fairly. The wrecked Norwegian Barque Thordis, which was valued at £40,000, has been sold for £375. The cargo, consisting of 6000 tons of coal, has been sold for £5.

SYDNEY, March 12. The fire in the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, is extending southward to Mcßrydets shaft. The proposal of the Federal Government to introduce the telephone “ toll system ” has aroused strenuous opposition. A large meeting of telephone subscribers decided to oppose the system by every constitutional means.

A dressmaker, working at an establishment in Kent street, has been found to be suffering from plague. SYDNEY, March 12. Heavy rains have failen in the. Riverina and other parts of the State. The country round White Cliffs is an unbroken sheet of water for forty miles. The people have taken refuge on house-tops until the flood abates. - MELBOURNE, March 10. The Marine Court found that the charge of careless navigation against Captain Tilston, -master of the Speke, which was wrecked on Phillip Island last month, was proved, and suspended his certificate for twelve months, and ordered him to pay the costs of the inquiry.

Owing to the high price of copper the construction of the proposed Syd-ney-Melbourne telephone has been indefinitely postponed. BRISBANE, March 12.

Bishop Frodsham has submitted a scheme to the Government to 'provide that deported Kanakas should be sent

to a special island, and formed into an agricultural colony. The Bishop of Melanesia had informed him that such a colony could easily be formed at Fiu in the Solomon Islands, where there are already one hundred Christian natives settled, including many returned labourers from Fiji. BRISBANE, March 12. Heavy rain is general in Queensland.