CABLEGRAMS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 19

CABLEGRAMS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, June 13

Mr Dowie has quitted the Hotel Cecil, and is again homeless. He starts for New York on Wednesday.

The Daily Mail asserts that Mr Booth Qibborn and his wife have been ordained in London as Zionist elders.

June 14.

The shareholders of Messrs W. and A. M'Arthur sanctioned the transfer of £5000 from the reserve to pay interim preference dividends, and also authorised the directors to borrow up to the whole amount of the company's capital.

Lady M'Culloeh, widow of Sir James M'Culloch, formerly of Victoria, left an estate valued at £106,658. Of this, £9000 is bequeathed to charities, including £5000 to establish a tutorship in the Presbyterian Theological College, England. Id. the event of her niece dying childless, the bulk of the fortune goes to charities, including £40,000 to the Hoyal Scottish Tiere are several bequests to charities in Melbouriie.

Air Dowie, on reading the newspapers on Monday, exolaimed : " Heathen England has refused me." He suddenly crossed the Channel, and starts for New nfcork by the French steamer. Many cripples and others were awaiting him at the Tabernacle. The disappointed audience, when informed of his flight, broke up in confusion.

June 15.

A "boiler explosion destroyed the destroyer Success <*fi the Isle of Arran. |one man was severely and three others ftfghtly injured. -The St. James's Gazette censures Sir iW. liaurier for describing Earl Duni|onald as a "foreigner," and characterises as undignified his expression tiiat "Canadians refused to be idragoonedV*

June 16.

King' Victor gmajamiers award 1 on the -itespufcedi British-BrasSlian frontier of Guiana generally sustains the British claims. June 17.

Mr Gerald Balfour states that if the Commercial Intelligence Committee's experiment of appointing British commercial agents in the-principal South African towns proves successful it will be extended to South Australia and elsewhere. "" liprd Stanley (Postmaster-general) has stated that the Government is against *he .compulsory purchase of the National Telephone Company. He added that if i3ie "-present negotiations failed the Government "would consider what action ■was necessary in regard to initiating competition.

June 18.

The Marquis of Anglesey has assigned Ms estate. The creditors received an allowance of JE2OOO yearly. The creditors will be paid in full in seven years. A hye-election. for the Harborough Division of Leicestershire owing to the resignation of Mr Logan resulted in the jeturn of Mr Philip Stanhope (Liberal) "by 7843 votes, against 6110 polled by Mr Dixon (Conservative).

[This does not represent a Liberal gain. At the last general electoin Mr Logan polled 7269 votes and Mr Dixon 5946. The liberal vote on the present occasion increased i>3^ 574-, but the Conservative vote •only increased 164-.]

As a result of the miner's stop-days decision, recently cabled, Mr Justice Bingham assessed the damages in the casj&s of Powell, Duffryn, and Nixon, of the Navigation collieries, at five-sevenths the original claims. He urged the acceptance of the same basis in other cases. The total damages in that event would fee £57,562.

June 19.

Mr Dowie returned 1 to England surreptitiously. He crossed the United Kingdom, and embarked at Liverpool for America.

The "Deceased Wife's Sister Bill has been dropped. Lord Tennyson, addressing the Freshwater Artillery Volunteers, said that ■when required Australia could put in the field 20,000 light horse, soms of them *he finest .mounted troops in fhe world.

King Edward's Coronation cost £359,289.

King Edward, in reply to the chairman of the Foreign Correspondents' Association in London, said he highly appreciated the assurance that they would continue with increased energy to do the utmost to promote friendly feeling among the countries they represent. The Thistle has been refloated and docked.

The destroyers Bat and Stag, which ■were in collision at Ajacio during night manoeuvres, are safe at Malta. The collision was not serious.

BERLIN, June 13. Three " Jack the Ripper " crimes have Ibeen perpetrated here.

June 14.

The International Women's Conference, representing 170 societies, opened in this city. There is a great attendance of representatives from all countries. The Countess of Aberdeen and Miss Sheriff Bain, of New Zealand, addressed the assemblage.

The German delegate stated that there were two million women working as agricultural labourers in. Germany who possessed no rights.

The German Empi*ess will receive the delegates.

June 15,

Professor Koch, interviewed, said the recently-published report of the Royal Commission on tuberculosis alters his view that man could not be infected by animal tuberculosis.

June 16,

A man named Berger, a workman, has been arrested on a charge of committing the Jack-the-Ripper murders in Berlin.

A scandal has arisen in connection with the Pomeranian Bank. Herren Schultz and Romeich, two of the directors, are accused of having placed large sums to the credit of Baron Mirbach, Comptroller of the Empress's Household, for charitable objects under the Empress's patronage. It is alleged that these payments were made solely with a view to securing orders or titles of nobility. Mirbach has admitted tho receipt of donations amounting to 200,0uJ marks, and that another credit of 350,000 marks was offered, but renounced when the bank was found to be in difficulties. Mirbach has declared thafc the directors affirmed that the money was their own, and was given without any conditions.

BRUSSELS, June 14

The Belgian elections have reduced the Catholic majority in the Chamber of Deputies.

ROME, June 14

Osservatore Romano states that the Pope is prepared to renounce his claim to temporal power in return for an adequate equivalent.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 17.

During a fire at Warsaw the workmen fought the police, and shouted, "Down with the Czar!" Eight rioters wer-3 shot and eight Cossacks killed.

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 17.

Consuls report in connection with the outbreak at Sassun that 3000 of all ages were Jrillcd and 50 villages destroyed. The Porte declares that the rebel:, and not the Iroops are responsible.

June 17.

There are 4000 starving refugees at Mush, in Asiatic Turkey. The French Consul's intervention prevented further massacres.

BELGRADE, June 13

A requiem service on the anniversary of the murder of King Alexander was held here. The regicide newspapers, which upheld the act of the regicides, appeared with coloured borders, and published articles glorifying the murders.

WASHINGTON, June 13.

Mr P. C. Knox, Attorney-general, has been appointed a Federal Senator, so as to enable President Roosevelt to drop his anti-trust programme.

The New York Times states that Mr Choate will be appointed Attorney.general, and that TVIr Wkitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, will succeed him at the Court of St. James's.

June 14.

There are persistent reports that Mr J. D. Rockefeller is organising a huge trust, with a capital of 500 million pounds, to control the whole mineral output of America.

NEW YORK, June 15

Commander Booth Tucker and 350 Salvationists sailed "by the Cunard steamer Carpathia to attend the International Congress in London, under the presidency of General Booth.

OTTAWA, June 14.

The Dominion Cabinet has resolved to cancel Earl Dundonald's appointment as Commandant of the Forces on the ground that he was guilty of a breach of military discipline and constitutional usage.

June 15.

An Order-in-Council has been issued relieving Earl Dundonald of his command of the forces.

June 16,

An Order-in-Council, which has feeen issued, jxistifies Earl Dundonald's dismissal, on the grounds of insubordination and grave indiscretion in attacking Ministers under whom he served. It is asserted that such conduct would prove fatal to all discipline.

June 20.

Earl Dundonald declares that he was aware beforehand of the gravity of his protests and speech. He considered l^is action was the only means of serving the Militia. He worked haid to improve-ihe force, avoiding politics, and claiming freedom of action only so far as the technical side of his work was concerned ; hut he was constantly hampered by the Government's interference with the machinery he was supposed to control. Parts of his first annual report were suppressed, ans portion or his? later report omitted 1 , jfte adds that the Canadians are living in a fool's paradise as regards preparedness for war. Lord Dundonald, interviewed, declared that the Canadian Militia were deliberately starved as regards ammunition and equipment.

CAPETOWN, June 17.

General Smith Brook acts as Administrator during the visit of Sir W, Hely Hutchinson, Governor of Cape Colony, to London.

HONGKONG, June 19. The British torpedo destroyer Sparrowhawk struck an uncharted rock at the mouth of the Yang-tse-kiang, and &ank. No lives were lost.

The grins and gear of the destroyer SparrowJiawk, which sank ivi the ~Z&h%~ t^e-kiaiisu. were saved.

INTERCOLONIAL. MELOOITvXE, June 14. Professor Gregory has resigned the chair of geology at the University, having accepted a f-imiUr position in connection with the engineering section of the Glasgow University

June 17.

The report on the alleged evasion of duties in connection with the importation of New Zelaland fish has been received by the Minister. The position is so grave that it may lead to a. prosecution for conspiracy. In view of this the contents of the report are withheld.

June 18.

At the Butter Commission inquiry a ■witness stated that of the £103,000 paid in bonuses by the Government, £26,000 reached the farmers, and £77,000 went to the agents.

June 20.

Mr Watson, on the strength of the representations of the prisoner's friend?, has appealed to the Home authorities to 2'elease Lieutenant Witton 011 the ground that his father is dying.

The Government will appoint a board to inquire into tbe alleged evasion of duties on New Zealand fish.

SYDNEY, June U

Two brilliant meteors exploded at Marulan last niaht. The shock of one

caused buildings to vibrate within a radiu^ of one mile. The second explosion was heard seven miles away, and caused miners in the Carrington mine to imagine the roof had fallen in.

June 15,

It is quite probable that complications will ensue as a result of Sir F. Jeune's judgment in the Gibb divorce case, as the decision simply means that nullity of a marriage in the State is of non-effect outside. Gibb was domiciled here upwards of three yeatfs prior to the desertion of his wife.

June 18.

The temperature is the lowest for June for 45 years. Fifty-four stations report a temperature below freezing point. A heavy sea is running off the New South Wales coast.

Advices received state that the North German Lloyd's training thip Herzogin Sophie Charlotte made the voyage from Melbourne to Bremen in 60 clays, beating ail previous records by seven days. She also beat the average to Cape Horn by 13 days.

ADELAIDE, June 20.

The coastal steamer Jessie Darling sank at her anchor. The crew are «afe. The vessel was insured in the New Zealand office for £2000.

BRISBANE, June 20

Mr James Allen, JM.H.R., arrived by the Miowera. He is greatly impressed with the improving state of commercial affairs in Great Britain. The people, he said, seemed to be awakening to a sense of their responsibilities.

PERTH (W.A.), June 16.

When a train belonging to a private company was coming down a hill near Yarloop the brakes failed to hold, and the train crashed into some granite. Mackenzie, the paymaster, was killed outright, and two others were slightly injured. The driver and iireman escaped by jumping off.