HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8925, 28 October 1905, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[By Eleotbio Tbleobaph.—Copybight.] (Pes Pbess Association.) Received October 28, at 8.48 a.m. Berlin, October 27. The Kaiser lias unveiled a. statue to General von Aloltke in Berlin.- At tho banquet in the evening ho gave a silent toast to the past, and then toasting the present and the future said: "You have seen how we stand iu the world; then keep your powder dry, your sword keen, your eyes Oir your goal and your muscles taut, and away wit 11 pessimists. I empty :ny glass to our people in amis, the German anny, and general stair." The Kaiser has cordially congratulated Prince Leopold o£ Lippe-Detmold on cstablishing liis right of succession. Constantinople, October 27. Turkey is spending half a, million pounds at Elswick and Creusot on destroyers. Five Ambassadors demand a- collective audience with the Sultan to impress on him the grave consequences of his persisting in an. uncompromising attitude with regard to Macedonia. Received October 28, at 8.48 a.m. Paris, October 27. Jacques Lebaudv's stcerable balloon ascended 1500 feet at Paris, travelling at the rate of 50 feet per second against the wind, and was easily directed. Mtlttan oilicers were amazed, and consid-r the trials conclusive. London, October 21.

The trades unions are defying Mr Sim, Registrar-General of 1-riciidly Societies, a IK? declare that he passe,i the rules tof the Loot and Shoe Operatives Union, containing every provision lor the payments which he now disailows. Tho bv-eiection for it.unpstead result eel : Mr Eletcher (Lnionisl) 4225, Mr Lowu (Liberal) 3805. Replying to an apparently unguarded remark by Lord l'osebery at Stourbridge, when sounding a warning with regard to foreign relations, Mr Brodrick, speaking at Guildford, emphatically" declared that there were no outstanding questions between the British and German Governments, nor anything to prevent their friendship. He ridiculed the story published in Le Matin that England would land soldiers at Schleswig. The Tokio Municipality did not mvite members of the Ministry to the reception in honor of Admiral logo, owing to tint peace terms. The Mikado invited 4000 naval olhcers to functions in the Palace and an unprecedented farewell garden party was tendere,! a* Takasaki to the returning Russian ollicers. The CsKir and the Mikado were enthusiastically toasted. A large Japanese conversion of externa; and internal loans will be launched at the earliest opportunity.