HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8287, 16 September 1903, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

[By Electric' Telegraph.—Copyright.]

Per Press dissociation.

Received September 16, at 8.12 a.m. Vienna, (September 15. Djevded Abdullah Bey,, a physician attached to the Turkish Embassy at Vienna, after accusing the Ambassador, Medium Pasha, of preventing his promotion to Constantinople, suddenly beat Medhem. in the presence of his staff, and then fled.

Pekin, September 15. The American Ambassador and Prince Ching came to an agreement to open the port of Autung, on the Yalu River, instead of Talungkao, the former being a better harbor.

Received September 16, at 8.22 a.m. London, September 15. The Standard deprecates any Ministerial resignations, and declares it to be needless and unnecessary inasmuch as measures to prevent the unfair dumping of foreign products into Britain are not an attack on free trade, while the increasingly critical foreign situation and urgency of army reform demand the energies of a. strong and united Cabinet. It adds that the question of preferential tariff does not press for immediate solution, and meanwihle Ministers cannot act loyally together in council if conducting a campaign against one another in their constituencies. It warns of' the risk of reopening the breach and precipitating a formidable secession and revolt.

■Sir Michael .Hicks-Beach, replying to an Irish correspondent, declares that lie could not imagine how the fiscal proposals could benefit Irish produce, aiming, as they did, at the United Kingdom's food supplies coming, not from home sources, but from the colonies instead of foreign countries. Received September 16, at 8.35 a.m.

.Paris, 'September 15. The French Premier, inaugurating M. Renan's statue at. Tregives, admitted that the State was now open to warfare with the clergy, whose passive resistance to the Religious Associations Bill was really opsn mutiny.

Constantinople, September 15. An Armenian Mafia organisation, in revenge for their successful proselytising, are assassinating at Alexandrople and elsciwliero several priests of the Orthodox Church. St. 'Petersburg, September 15. Reports-received here state that disturbances have taken place amongst the Armenian population at Alexandrople and Tillis. The trouble is the. outcome, of tli? Czar, at the instance of M. Pobiedonotzeff, ex-Procurator, of the Holy Synod, M. Plelive, Minister of the Interior, and 'General Prince Galitzin, Governor of the Caucasus, authorising the seizure of the property of the Armenian Church in the Caucasus amounting to a hundred and thirteen million roubles. The Armenians are greatly excited, and threaten to transfer the Church's headquarters to Sis, the religious capital of Turkish Armenia, whos? Catholics will become supreme chief. Received September 16, at 8.57 a.m. St. Petersburg, September 15. The newspaper Novosti declares that Russia intends to keep Manchuria. She is willing to peacefully make Japan concessions with regard to Korea which she would never yield under pressure of war.

Received September 16, at 9.14 a.m. London, September 15. The Birmingham Post declares that there is no immediate Cabinet crisis.

Sir H. iCanipbell-Bannerman, acknowledging the resolution adopted at a recent conference of the co-operative societies of Glasgow against accepting Mr Chamberlain's suggested offer of old age pensions contingent upon the acceptance of a preferential tariff, slid that the protest of the leaders of the working class was as a shot against the Government from a "Long Tom." Mr Asquith, in acknowledging the resolution, rejoiced at the emphatic condemnation of the attempt to revive the shibboleth of protection. The steamer Haipara, built for Turnbull and Company, Wellington, was successfully launched.

Captain H. R. Robinson has been appointed to command the Diadem, taking relief crews to the Australian station. He will assume command of the Tauranga. when the latter is placed under commission. The Victorian Government was awarded the diploma of honor at the Crystal Palace Food and Grocery Exhibition. Received September at 10.3 a.m. Lone lon, September 15. The Alaskan Boundary Commission has opened, and is holding daily sittings in London, Lord Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice, presiding. Sir R. B. Finlay, Attor-ney-General, in ening speech explained that- the dispute*! territory was of extreme value to Canada as affording access to the Pacific. He declared that the United States boundaiy lias been drawn in ostentatious defiance to the treaty of 1825.