CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 27

CABLEGRAMS.

BKITISH ASD FOREIGN. LONDON, March 7. The British imports for February increased by £1,265,000, and the exports increased by £1,374,000, compared with the previous February. March 8. J. H. Lawson, sentenced in December last year to 12 months for conspiracy to defraud, who was released on bail pending an appeal on a point of law, has surrendered, and has been imprisoned. The Daily Chronicle reports that Mr Sifton (Minister of the Interior), Mr Fielding (Finance), and) Sir W. Mulocli (Postmastergeneral) have resigned from the Ministry, objecting to the establishment of separate Catholic schools in the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. They contended the North American Act reserved) education to the provincial jurisdiction, and the Ontario-Quebec compromise did not apply to other provinces. Sir Wilfred Laurier threatens a disolution if there are further resignations. Mr Malcolmson, in a letter to The Times, declares that Westralian laws not only permit the enslavement of aborigines, but will compel him to make other very strong allegations. A fleet of Chinese trading boats caught fire at Wu-chow, and 300 persons were killed. March 9. Earl Spencer, speaking at Wandsworth, declared that Mr Wyndham's discovery of the necessity of an advance by devolution or som.? other change is a striking justification of Mr Gladstone's view of the impossibility of continuing coercion, and the necessity for conceding some self-govern-ment to Ireland. Cradock was fined £20 and 30 guineas costs for a false trade description. He supplied Australian lambs to fill contracts wherein New Zealand meat was specified The London County Council, in conjunction with Mr W. P. Reeves (N.Z. Agentgeneral), prosecuted. Mr Maurice de Bunsen, of the Paris Embassy, has succeeded the late Sir M. Gosselin as British Minister at Lisbon. Among the vessels condemned by the Admiralty to be sold as obsolete are the Ringarooma, Mildura, Katoornba, Wallaroo, Tauranga, Boomerang, and Karrakatta, all belonging to the Australasian squadron till quite recently. March 10. Lord Rosebery, speaking at the City of London Liberal Club, said the Liberals in 1895 laid the foundation of the AngljJapanese alliance, and would probably feel it a duty and an honour to renew the alliance. As regarded Home Rule, H was impossible for any Government, however potent, to introduce a bill to establish a Parliament, however subordinate, at Dublin without a special appeal to the country. His view was that no wise statesman would ever expose the country to the curse of dual government at the heart of the Empire. Mr N. De G. Davies, of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, has discovered between the sepulchres of Rameses IV and Ramesrs XII, at El Mama, the tombs of Yua and Tua, the parents of Queen Tie. The tomb has not been disturbed since the eighteenth dynasty (about 1322 8.C.), and is still filled with royal treasures. The discovery is the most-important ever made in Egypt. An explosion occurred in tlvj Cambiian collieries, Llynpia during the changing of shifts, when the roadts weie crowded, and wrecked the shaft. Fifty were rescued alive from one seam and 14 from another. Many were severely burned. Thi loss of life is between 20 and 30. Lord Rosebery, in his speech at the City of London Liberal Club, presumed that the next Liberal Government would be bound to proceed with the Home Rule question on the county government lines settled by the piesent Government. Regarding the fiscal question, he trusted that the city would' give the counliy a Freeirndp lend. March 11. The Nationalist pr««s, refpning to Loid Robbery's .-homeless be tiayal of Homo Rule., declares that an open enemy ib better than a false fimid. The third-class cruiser Pegnsu* has soiled for Australia. The Pega-ms is 2137 tons,

and steams 20 knots per hour. She was built in 1897 at Chatham. It is reported at Mombassa that 9000 1 Somahs attacked Merka, and completely annihilated the inhabitants. March 12. The explosion in the Cambrian collieiies, Llynpia, caused a lire in the Cambrian mine. Of the colliers -who suffered, nino are dead and 1? are still imprisoned. Their recovery alive is practically impcssib]e. The accident occurred a quarter of an hour before the night shift descended, otbei'wise it would have proved the worst mining disaster in the history of South Wales. March 13. The cruiser Prometheus is coaling at Gibraltar pieparatory to sailing for Australia. BERLIN, March 8. The Prussian Budget Committee, by 16 to 10, rejecic-d the War Minister's request for 20 additional squadrons of cavalry. The Kaiser has withdrawn four warships from foreign stations, and increased the home fleet to 12 battleships — the same as that of Great Britain. TANGIERS, March 12. The Morocco Pretender, with a, view to terrorising his enemies, caused seven prisoners, tied in sacks and with their heads exposed, to be thrown into the sea. They were shot while drowning. NEW YORK, March 8. Five thousand employees struck on the Subway and Elevated Railways in New York. Inexperienced hands were then engaged), the public riding at their own risk. In a collision in a subway four persons were killed and 30 injured. March 10. The strike of men on the New York subway railway has proved a failure. March 12. Mrs Chadwick, who succeeded in victimising bankers and financiers by inducing them to believe she held valuable documents from Mr Carnegie and others, has been convicted of forging a promissory note for one million and also on other charges. SAN FRANCISCO, March 10. The verdict of the coroner's jury on the cause of Mrs Stanford's death was that she was poisoned by strychnine administered by some person or persons unknown. CAPETOWN, March 8. Visser, the last Cape rebel remaining in prison, has been released. March 12. Sir W. F. Hely-Hutchinson, the Governor, in opening the Cape Parliament, announced the cessation of all prosecutions in connection with the recent rebellion. The Government had also sanctioned the issue of arms to farmers, whether or not they had been implicated in the rebellion. The cessation of the prosecutions placates several men at present in German territory, who have been afraid to return. CALCUTTA, March 10. Thirty-four thousand deaths from plague have occurred in India in a week.