CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 64

CABLEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, February 28.

"•' Lord De Freyne has accepted his tenants' terms for the purchase of the French Park Estate. - Miss Ada Oossley made her debut at Dresden. She received 10 recalls.

-Tait, of Melbourne, has arranged for Kubelik, the violinist, to give 30 concerts in Australia and New Zealand. He opens in Melbourne in September.

.Miss Margaret Dpwling, a New Zealander, has manfa} Prince Chica, who claims to be chief of the party which is Becking Albanian independence. The Hon. AyA v Lyttelton, Colonial Secretary, cabled Earl Grey, the Gov.ernorBeneral, on the occasion of the .faarde- ' i>ei?g Day -diinner at Ottawa, that he hoped 'ancb believed Oana-da would always stand ■Reside th'e^Motherland in defence of th;> / safety and honour of the Empire

March 1.

Mr A. E. Pratt has sailed for Batavia to- explore the Charles Louis Range, in "Dutch New- Guinea.

March 2. The Malagasy revolt is still unsuppressed.

Altogether ' 37 whites were killed, one

officer being tortured to death in his wife's -presence. Eleven soldiers took refuge in S church, and resisted for 10 days, when ' ammunition was exhausted. ■ They- " were-mSssacred*.

■*!"',- ■ March 3. -•V .The Orient- Company protests .strongly against Mr Reid's suggestion that it is

deliberately inflicting injury on the mercantile community. The " Orient Company is willing to' continue the service If- the Government will guarantee 5 per cent, on the capital employed.

Many concerned in the Australasian . trade approve of Mr Bhownaggree's .suggestion for a Sta£e mail service as a means of promoting the unity of the -Empire. They only insist that it must at least equal the one which Australia

has en

Ed for 20

The fight ' between the New Zealand State Fire Insurance Department antl private companies is watched with interest. The London Times says the colonial taxpayers are likely to have to meet a long bill.

The' Daily Express's New York correspondent says that Mrs Stanford's death was due to tetanus of the respiratory organs, induced by strychnine. The relatives discredit the murder theory, and suggest that deceased ras subject to

hallucinations of persecution.

The directors of the Bank of Australasia have declared a dividend of 12 per cent. ; carried to the reserve fund £30,000 ; bank "premises account, £14,000 ; and carried forward £16,951. The Financial Times considers it a bad

precedent fo.

the Queensland Government

to redeem, forged Treasury notes, a number of which were discovered a. couple of

months ago, even if they are splendid Imitations. «»,

March 5.

Signor Marconi, lecturing at the Royal Institution, said that he was confident that before long he would' be able to transmit messages to the Antipodes more economically than by cable.

March 6. .Earl Caydor succeeds Lord Selborne as First Lord of the Admiralty.

[There is no Earl Caydor in the peerage, and it may be taken for granted that the Earl Cawdor is meant. Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell (third Earl) was born in 1847, educated at Eton and at Christchurch, Oxford. He sat as member for Carmarthenshire from 1874 to 1875, when ho unsuccessfully contested the Western Division of Carmarthenshire. In 1892 he unsuccessfully contested a Manchester seat. He was appointed an Ecclesiastical Commissioner in 1890.]

Tlie Polar ship Francais brought Dr Chareot to Puerto Madnen. Dr Chareot wintered at Wandel Island, passed through the Bismarck Strait, explored several unknown points of Grahami* Land, and settled the contour and external coastline of Palmer Archipelago.

Dv Chareot is a young 1 millionaire, and the expedition was intended to be something in the nature of a scientific picnicextending over about six months. It was intended to make for Jan Moyen Island, and then pass through the region between Franz Jo^ef Land and Nova Zembla, when a northern com =c was to be taken. PAIUS, March 3. n«unt dg Biuzza 3ieads the EiLibion

appointed to investigate the administration and condition of the French Congo.

The Temps publishes further accounts of atrocities in the Congo Free State. It says that a tribe of UXX) natives, sent to gather rubber, were massacred by connivance of the authorities.

BERLIN, March 3.

The German newspapers, which did not publish an adequate account of the findings of the North Sea Commission, reluctantly admit that tlie result is satisfactory to Great Britain.

ROME, March 6. Signor Giolotti, the Premier, has re signed on the ground of nealth.

The appointment is gazetted of Mr William Brown as Consul-gen.eral for Chili in Australia and New Zealand. NEW YORK, February 28.

The building trade in New York_is brisk. Bricklayers' wages have been fixed at 35c an hour. *** Mr Perrine, assistant astronomer at the Lick Observatory,. has discovered a seventh satellite of the planet Jupiter.

March 1.

Loeb, professor of physiology at the University of California, claims to have succeeded in fertilising the sterile eggs of the sea urchin by means of chemistry.

It is reported at Chicago that Gates's pool to corner wheat made a profit of one million to sixteen hundred thousand.

The 'floor of Zion Church, Brooklyn, collapsed during a service, killing 12 negro Methodists and injuring 100.

Despite strong criticism, the Senate approved of the American Naval Appiopriation Bill. «

March 2

Mr Hay, Uniteu States Secretary of State, assured the Haytian Minister that the United States had no intention of annexing Hayti- or San Domingo, nor -of extending its- influence over them, even if those Republics solicited incorporation with the United States.

Mr Garfield's report on the beef industry shows that the packers' companies are not over capitalised). The profit is only two per cent, upon the gross capital. When prices were highest in 1902 some packers were losing money.

Tha late Mrs Stanford's bottle of bicarbonate of soda contained 662 grains of strychnine. It was -filled in a pharmacy at Palo Alto, near San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2.

Mrs Leland Stanford, the millionaire and philanthropist, died at Honolulu. There are indications that she was poisoned. It is stated that an attempt to poison her took place in San Francisco in February, but failed. She took a dose from a bottle of bicarbonate of soda in Honolulu. The bottle was purchased in Adelaide in 1903, and refilled in San Francisco. The bicarbonate was found to contain strychnine.