HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8834, 14 July 1905, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.) Received July 13, at 9.50 p.m. London, July 13.

There were splendid fetes at Brest. King Edward's message to Admiral .May expressed pleasure at the reception of the .squadron. The- deaths in the colliery disaster wero chiefly the result of after-damp. They included 40 boys. A Mansion House fund lias been opened. Moonlighters fired revolvers through the windows of the house of a Protestant grazier named King on llarmau's stale, Boyic. Au attempt to rush was repulsed. One assailant was shot. Received July 13, at 10.53 p.m. London, July 13. As the battleship Implacable was leaving Gibraltar the cover of the sectional main steam pipe blew off, killing three stokers and injuring six. The Sovereigns inaugurated the Sheffield University. Morocco, July 13. Moorish officials are surprised and annoyed at the Franco-German agreement. Cairo, July 13. The new Mahdi, a youth of 17, is trying to gather followers eastward of the Berbera coast. The tribes promise to report to Britain, as to his movements. Athens, July 13. A skirmish took place at ATkhanacs, in Crete, between the insurgents and the British troops supporting the Cretan gendarmerie, while the latter wero searching for arms. Two riflemen were wounded, one severely.

Received July 13, at 11.51 p.m. London, July 13. In the House of Commons Mr Arnold Forstcr, replying to Mr Buchanan, said Lord Roberts was* still receiving a non-ef-fective allowance of £SOOO a year under the authority of Parliament, this being a special giant for giving his services, to the Defence Committee. The allowance was included under vote 14 of the army estimates. Sir H. Cumpbell-Banncrmau declared that the payment was a douceur for being treated almost wilh indignity and summarily dismissed from the Commander-ship-in-Ciiief. Mr Fcrster protested against the unjust and unfounded Temarks, and added that Lord Roberts was a party to every step taken, and all was done with his agreement and consent. He never was subjected to any discourtesy. Received July 13, at 11.45 p.m. London. Julv 13.

In the House of Commons Mr Keir Hardie created a Fcnsation. After protesting against sacrificing the Unemployed Bill, he warned the Government of the possibility of riots throughout the country, and expressed a hope that a breach of tho peace would be committed if the Bill wero sacrificed.

The Scottish Churches Settlement Bill was read a second time by 205 to 63. Towards the close of the sitting the Opposition appealed to tho Government to pass the Unemployed Bill. Sir A. F. Acland-Hoorl promised to communicate with Mr Balfour the suggestion to devote Friday and Saturday to the Bill. M. Saint Germain, a member of the French Senate, is comunr to London on a special mission to study the working of the Agents-General offices with a view to placing the Federal Colonial Office on a more practical business footing.