HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8960, 8 December 1905, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Per Pbess Association.) Received December 7, at 10.3 p.m. Paris, December 7. The Senate, by 131 to 102, finally adopt ed the Separation of the Churches Bill as a whole, amid cheers from the Left. Washington, December 7. The Railway Rates Bill, in an amplified form embodying President Roosevelt's recommendation, has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives. Senator Lodge, in the Senate, in view of Germany's denunciation of the commercial treaty, has introduced an amendment to the Dingley t a rift' against countries not treating America on an equality with others. Received December 7, at 9.27 p.m. London. December 6. In the butter adulteration cases an analyst deposed that four packages were found on Cbopman's premises which contained butter adulterated with cocoanut oil, the quantity ranging from 18 to 31 per cent. The analysis of the Queensland and New Zealand boxes is not yet disclosed. The case has been adjourned to the 16th January at the urgent representation of the Agents-General. The Egyptian Government remitted the import duty on frozen meat. The remission was originally intended to apply to live stock only. Washington, December 7. A Japanese Exclusion Bill has been introduced into the House of Representatives.

Received December 8, at 1.14 a.m. London, December 7. The Mildura arrived at Plymouth. Berlin, December 7. Prince von Bulow, speaking in the Reichstag, said the foreign situation was not entirely satisfactory. One misunderstanding had just been overcome, but fresh ones were possible. He quoted Count von Moltke's saying that dangers to peace were likelier to arise from popular passions than from diplomatic actions of cabinets. He added that Germans must reckon in England on the profound dislike towards them characterising public opinion there. It was only recently that attempts made to combat this perilously strained condition were very noticeable in serious English circles, and he welcomed such, favorable symptoms. London, December 7. The National Convention of the Irish League negatived the scheme of Messrs Healey and O'Brien to admit reformers of the Dunraven type, and resolved to refuse alliance with any English party not adopting as a cardinal point in its programme Mr Redmond's definition of Home Rule, cabled on the sth.

Received. December 8, at 1.20 a.m. Berlin, December 7.

In the course of his speech in the. Reichstag, Prince Bulow 6aid Germany's policy in Morocco was peaceful, not provocative, but defensive. She was standing upon her rights under the Madrid convention, and the Anglo-French convention was unable to dispose of German interests.