LATE CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10859, 31 December 1906, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(Press Assu. — By Telegraph— Copyright.)

(Received December 31. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29. Loql Lorcburn, replying to a memorial Ixoxa eighty-eight Liberal-Labor members of the House of Commons, complaining of his acceptance of nominations for the magistracy from lord-lieuWnants m preference to Liberal membeis, emphatiuilly declines to allow the office to become an appanage of party. Meat and hemp arc unchanged m price. Copper, spot, is at 105, three months lObi ; tiu, spot, 193 i, tlireo months 194 j lead 191. . • . BERLIN, Dec. 29. Dr. Ermer, Consul-General for Genoa, has been appointed representative m the Commonwealth, with lieadquartcis ut Syd- ! jiey. ••••'■ I The "Vos&iche Zeitung statos that Gene, rul Lindeqmst bus secured a complete understanding jn regard to the protection of the frontiers during a native rebellion m South-West Africa. MOROCCO, December 29. Rnsuli k> defiant, and refuses to relinquish the governorship. He has scut liis harem to the montains, and is preparing to fight at Alizinat. ' * NW YORK, December 29. Tho grand juiy. indicted Perkins, for- j mcrly vicp-presiacnt of tho New York : Life Company, and Fairchild, formerly j secretary, m the third degree, for misre- ! | presenting tho Nevy York Life Company's j l^ecuritios, Avith a view to evading th«

Prussian insurance law^TThe grand jury admit the act was for no 'personal profit, and only intended to benefit the policyholders.

The authorities at Washington pledge their support to Britain m any steps they take to ameliorate tho conditions of the Congo State. ST. PETERSBURG, December 29.

General Kaulbars has been transferred elsewhere, because he patronised the Union of the Russian People, whoso gangs terrorised Odessa. Three men assassinated General Litvineff, Governor of Aknolinsk, outside the Administrative Oftico-at Omsk. Tho assassins escaped m a cab. ,