HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9656, 9 October 1907, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES.

[Br Electbic Telegraph.—GoVyiiightjJ i MPf,r-Press: Association.) •Received-October-8,-at- 10.20 p.m. •. • ■ : = -- ■ London, October 8. * Reports from-India show tliat after the dry. heat in September the situation is fair jor •good n)u:Burma; Eastern Bengal, Assam; a portion tne Bengal Central Provinces, a portion of ■> Bombay, and Madras, but m AjVfst Bengal the crops are suffering,«Tvhrlethe ; 'harvest- mi the Northwest frontier jlnd. the ;-Unitedi ■' Provinces ds' a The distress is likely to be widespread, necessitating extensive relief measures. Indications pomt to the factthat- only a quarter of the crop will be gathered m Centra! India. Received' October 8, at .10.30 p.m. ; Calcutta, October 8. In oomiection- -with the recent riots 85 persons: now in gaol in Calcutta. Thirty are charged with looting, and the remainder with- rioting. A commission lias been appointed' to consider the <vhole question- of factory labor in India. * Sir Henry Primrose, wlio was recently appointed; chajrmari of the' Royal Commission to the question 1 of decentralisation in , India, has withdrawn on the grounds if his health. Charles E. Hbblnoiise, .Under-Secretary'for India,. will succeed' H. Primrose. - ' London, October 8. Mr ,Ou.rran, member, for Jarrow, speaks in? at_ the railway companies persist in ignoring the demands the Amalgamated'iSaciety of Railway Servants .■he .'will /block "their' Bills. ;■ - ■ Received' October 8, at. 10.50 pm. , - Pretoria., October 8. ' 4 Mr Smuts, addressing his 5 : constituents here, wad - the* experience of the-miners on strike proved that if the Chinese were retained the whites must eventually -clear out-. Two magnates, who desired to' oooperate with the Government, had come to - the cdnclusiiorl that the importation of the Chinese was a mistake. -Mr Smuts warned' the Indians that-the Government would' strictly : enforce the Asiatic ; law", and were determined) to make the -Trass." "vaal a-white man's country. They had put their foot t down and wouldi* keep it there.. ■ Received October 8, at 11.33 p.m. -London; October 8. The Times' Capetown correspondent reports that the trade returns : are still 'shrinking. Brussels, October 8. The. Belgiam Parliamentary j Commission on the Congo decided that the King/ arid ? not- Parliament, should settle the Budget. ' , ' . . London, October 8.. The Tribune dteclares that the Powers standing, as a - last resort as trustees of. the Congo State, will not tolerate an act of annexation such as is now ' pro"posed. ; ■. ' t , . • Rome, October 8. Consignor Delcheisa, an anti-Modernist, and: the Pope's own nominee, lias: succeed- i ed the late Cardinal Svampa, a Liberal, as Archbishop,- of ; Bologna, which is the oentro of Modernism. . | The Hague. October 8. j The Committee, by 31 to 9, adopted !; the j>roposa.i£) concerning compulsory arbi- ' tration. Japan and! Italy abstained from '. voting. It is igenerally expected, that some compromise \regarding the proposal : will be submitted at the plenary meeting of the- Conference; with a view t-o securing ■ unanimity.. .. . ' Received) October 8, at- 11.33 p.m. , Calcutta, October 8. : -Mr Keir Hardie has> cabled to the Daily i Mail enumerating the loyalist sections who ' entertained him during the past few days, ■ including the British, lj Indian, and' Bengal land s holders; and Tn- 1 - dian associations. ■ He appeals' to the , public to preserve an open mind'until he , 1 returns to England. . - | £