NEWS BY CABLE.

Southland Times, Issue 14333, 29 April 1899, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

British and Foreign GERMAN INTRIGUE IN SAMOA. A WHOLESALE MURDERER. SILVER RISING IN VALUE. THAT BRAZEN CREATURE CROKER. IMPERIAL CONTRIBUTION TO « A PACIFIC CABLE. BRITAIN AND RUSSIA: FRIENDLY UNDERSTANDING PROBABLE. MINISTER SHOT BY HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. WOMAN CHARGED WITH PATRICIDE. THE USUAL 10 PER CENT. IN SUGAR. ANOTHER DREYFUS DISCLOSURE. OUTSPOKEN AMERICAN OFFICERS REPROVED. THE IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR HARD-HEADED. (United Press Association. — By Electri cTelegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 27. Herr Schroenfelder reports that the relations between the officers of the three nationalities in Samoa were thoroughly courteous and friendly, but he blames the Germans for creating illwill by spreading false rumours. A man named Hermann will be placed on trial at Breslau on a charge of murdering his wife and hiding her body in a cellar. He is also alleged to have poisoned his twelve children in their infancy and committed other murders.

The contingent of the New South Wales Lancers, sent for special training in England, has arrived. The Coldstream Guards Band met them at Fenchurch street station and marched at their head. The men were received in the streets with much cheering. The British Excise Department has succeeded in getting fines imposed on tradesmen who presented beer to purchasers of their goods on Sunday. Silver, 2s 4|d per oz. The rise in price is chiefly speculative, mainly due to reports of the probable formation of an American combination. Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar from the beginning of 1900. The Shaw-Savill and Albion Company has declared a dividend of 5 per cent. An English farmer has beemfined L4O for selling colonial as Welsh mutton. Croker, the Tammany “boss,” has left New York for England. His “ send-off” was marked with tremendous enthusiasm. He denounced the Commission appointed to enquire into the alleged corrupt government of New York. It is announced that the Imperia! Government has decided to contribute to the Pacific cable. Britain’s contribution will take the shape of a yearly subsidy to the amount of the guarantee recommended in the report of the Royal Commission of 1896. The cable is to be laid between Vancouver, Fanning Island, Fiji, Norfolk Island, Queensland and New Zealand. The American artillery in the centra of Calumpit is shelling the Filipinos entrenched in the suburbs of the town. An armour-clad train greatly assisted the American attack on Calumpit. The Filipinos fought desperately and showed great courage. Mr Goschen, speaking at the dinner of the Engineers’ Society, stated that England and Russia are on the eve of a friendly settlement of the differences existing between them. The Times has published a secret report made by M. De Witte, Russian Minister of Finance, to the Czar, advocating the development of Russian trade with Britain and the offering of encouragement to British capitalists to invest in Russia.

At the Newmarket meeting the March Stakes were won by Mr Cooper’s Newhaven, Lord W. Beresford’s Break, 2; Mr Alexander’s Solennis, 3. April 38, Received 29th, 12.45 a.m. A French Guiana functionary in 1897 discovered a document sent from Cayenne by mistake, in which it was clearly proved that Dreyfus was then innocent. He forwarded the document to M. Lebon, who was then Minister for the Colonies. The Court of Cassation now demands that this document shall be produced. Chief Justice Chambers is likely to be ultimately superseded in Samoa for strongly criticising Germany in a private letter published in America. Secretary Long has admonished Admiral Kantz for similar letters. The Australian cricket team commences, practice at Lords on Monday. In the House of Commons the Hoti. St. John Brodrick, replying to a question, said it was inexpedient to publish the instructions given to the British delegates to the Czar’s peace conference Sir M. Hicks-Beach, replying to Mr Howard Vincent, said he was still considering the agents-generals’ representations against the wine duties, adding that the Australian wine trade had grown under equality of duties and the projected duties were small as compared with the duties of Victoria and South Australia, He could not see why, if the differential principle was accepted, it should be extended to colonies levying a highly protective tariff on British manufactures. The Queen opened the Victoria bridge at Nice. Australian. SYDNEY, April 28, Received 28th, 10.20 pan. A clerk named Price, as the result of a family quarrel, twice shot his brother-in-law, the Rev.

i / residing near Penrith, with a revolver, a Witcombe is in a dying condition. Price states that he asked -Witpombe y to sign a document allowing Wite combe’s wife so much per month ; that - Witcombe tried to eject them from the * house, and that he then drew the revolver. Witcombe’s statement is to ® the effect that Price drew the revolver e and endeavoured to compel him to sign the document. ’ Received 29th, 1.10 a.m. At the. half-yearly meeting of the • Sugar Company a profit of L 85,000 3 was shown, which, with the previous ■ balance, left L175„000 for appropria- ’ tion. A dividend of 10 per cent, per annum was declared and L 90,000 carried forward. The report showed a ’ large increase of output, over 100,000 tons having been put through for the half year. Received 29th, 1.10 a.m. ; The postal authorities doubt the accuracy of the cable relative to a British subsidy for a Pacific cable. Three men—Craig, a printer, Miller, a boilermaker, and Dwyer, a postal clerk—have been arrested in connection with the postal order-frauds. MELBOURNE, April 28. Received ‘ 28th, 10.20 p.m. Anastasia Butler has been arrested at Mansfield on a charge of murdering her father, whose body was recently found. After the tragedy Anastasia made a statement that she gave her father L 5 to enable him to take a holiday and that that was the last she saw of him. PERTH, April 28. . Bowen charged with the murder of his sister-in-law and her three children at Mount Magnet by setting fire to the tent in which they were sleeping, has been acquitted.