HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 8492, 27 May 1904, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electric- Telegraph.—Copteight.]

(Per Press Association.)

Received May 27, at 7.25 a.m. Capetown, May 26.

Louis Botha and members of the Pretoria Congress had a. friendly interview wilh Sir A. Lawley at Raadal. Sir Arthur Lawley y whose attitude is firm but conciliatory, remarked that the Government was under no obLigation to compensate for war losses, but had simply promised assistance. Already £10,000,01)0 had been spent, and he hoped that the claims of the protected burghoits and British subjects would be settled within a week. Ho did not object to reasonable requests for arms as a protection agaimst the natives. He asked the Boers, whero members of the Civil Service had made mistakes, to frankly submit, the facts to tho Government and not to brood over an isciated error and boil it up into a grievance. Received May 27, at 7.37 a.m. London, May 26. It is understood that the whole of tho Fortieth Regiment of Pathans and the First Battalion of Royal Fusiliers will proceed to Thibet. The Standard's Pretoria correspondent states that Andreas C-ronje publicly repented his apostaey and .prayed God's forgiveness for his awful sin against his own nation in becoming a National Scout. He has asked for re-admittance to the church of the (Boer's nation as now consolidated. A steamer has sailed from Hong-kong to Durban with 1000 Oliinese aboard. George Marshall, solicitor of Retford, has been arrested in connection with the theft of £12,000 ill notes, the property of tho Duke of Newcastle. Marshall, in his recent bankruptcy stated that he went to London to settle a purchase for the Duke. The money was stolen from a room while the Duke was staying at the Hotel Metropole. Received May 27, at 10.52 a.m. London, May 26. The American visible supply of wheat is estimated at 36,445,000 bushels. Received May 27, at 9.55 a.m. London, May 26. There has been no news from Gyangtsc for three days owing to attacks on postal carriers. The Viceroy of Canton sent four gunboats and two torpedo destroyers to Macao to enforce the extradition of a. fugitive from justice. The Portuguese are preparing to resist the Chinese landing. The melting of the snow is causing many fatalities in the- Alps. Lord Rothschild suggests that the Jewish community is willing to guarantee that Jewish aliens shall not come on the rates for two years after arrival in Great Britain if they are exempted from the Aliens Act. The Hon. H. Copeland (Agent-General for New South Wales), interviewed, said he entirely disagreed' with the New South Wales Chief Justice's view of compulsory arbitration. He considered that the Act had promoted? contentment and prosperity. New York, May 26. The Presbyterian Assembly at Buffalo, by a majority on two to one, prohibit ministers from marrying divorced persons.