GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3777, 27 June 1899, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

CAROLINE ISLANDS. MADRID, Monday. The Queen Regent has signed the treaty ceding the Caroline Islands from Spain to Germany. A STRONG MEASURE. AMSTERDAM, Monday. An Armenian, a member of a deputation to, the Peace Conference, and who was challenged by the Turkish delegate on the ground that ho was a sympathiser with the Young Turkish Party, has been expelled from Holland. GENERAL ROGET ON THE MOVE. PARIS, Monday. General Roget, who-aner the demonstration at President Faure’s funeral (when M. Deroulede attempted to induce him to head a military revolution), was transferred from Paris to the command at Orleans, will shortly be further transferred to Belfort. JAMAICA AND CANADA. LONDON, Monday. The Right Hon Joseph, Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is taking action for the promotion of closer commercial relations between Jamaica and Canada. [A Kingston correspondent. wired ■ as follows in May :—ln the Jamaica Legislative Council to-day the Government was urged to press the Imperial Government to conclude a treaty of reciprocity between Jamaica and the United States before it was too late. The Administration promised ,to consult Mr Chamberlain on the .matter.] AUSTRALIAN CASTAWAYS. SYDNEY, Monday. During the recent storms a small boat was wrecked on a desert island off the coast. Its two occupants existed for ten days on shell-fish. They suffered terrible privations, and when rescued were in an exhausted condition. A KALGOORLIE DEVELOPMENT: KALGOORLIE, Monday. An important discovery of high-grade oxidised ore is reported to have been made in the Great Boulder Perseverance gold mine. CHINESE RAIDERS. SHANGHAI, Sunday. A number of Chinese made a raid on the German railway works near Kiaochau, the German port on the Chinese coast. A punitive expedition has been sent out against the raiders. (Received June 27, 0.50 a.m.) PURCHASE OP A SHIP. SYDNEY, Monday Messrs Niccoll and Crais, of Auckland, have purchased the ship Falls of Gariy, which was recently salved at Noumea. RUSSIAN STUDENTS. ST. PETERSBURG, Monday. A conference of university authorities and educational experts is being held h re with the object of improving the position of Russian students. RUSSIAN HARVEST. ST. PETERSBURG, Monday. Agricultural prospects in South Russia, Finland,’ and the Transcaspian district are very bad. SPANISH ANARCHISTS. MADRID, Monday. ,At an immense meeting held in this city protests wore made against the illtreatment of imprisoned Anarchists. (Received June 27, 0.60 a.m.) FORTIFYING PEKIN. SHANGHAI, Monday. The Chinese Government is arranging to build strong forts in the neighbourhood of Pekin, the capital of the Empire. SAMOAN COMMISSION. BERLIN, Monday. The decision of the High’ Commissioners of the three great Powers concerned to uphold Chief Justice Chambers’s pronouncement in regard to the Samoan kingship has caused great disappointment in Germany. PORT ARTHUR IMPROVEMENTS. ST. PETERSBURG, Monday. Russia is devoting 11,000,000 roubles to dredging and the construction of moles at Port Arthur. WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES. WASHINGTON, Monday. Mr Russell A. Alger, United States Secretary of War, declares that General Otis, who is now operating with American farces in the Philippines, is not to be reinforced till October.