MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 2776, 26 July 1907, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Victoria (8.C.), July 24. A fire destroyed 150 buildings in tlie city, including two churches. INCENDIARISM IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, July 24. Incendiaries burnt the villages of Oleukakatodez and Sakliayelan, in the province of Veronesh. Several thousand peasants lost their entire property. CATTLE-DRIVING INQUIRY. London, July 24. Tlie judge lias granted tlie Solici-tor-General’s pplication for a change of venue in the trial of 67 drivers of cattle, on tlie ground that a fair trial Tn Galway is impossible. The official inquiry is being proceeded with. PRIVILEGES TO CONTRACTORS. London, July 24. There lias been extravagance on the part of the Mile End Board of Guardians in granting privileges to contractors. Many thousand pounds arc involved. KOREA. Tokio, July 24. Viscount Hayashi. Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated in the course ot an interview that intriguing with the Korean Government was impossible. The throne of Korea bad nothing to fear from Japan, but there must be competent, organised administration. NEWF<)FXI)LAND FISH EB I ES. >t. Johns, July 24. Unless the vivondi is renewed tlie United States herring fishers threaten to bring lull American crews to Newfoundland. rendering eight hundred colonists unemployed.