NEWS BY CABLE.

Southland Times, Issue 17079, 30 October 1902, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

British and Foreign.

CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED SHOE LEATHER CATASTROPHE AMONG PILGRIMS THE SAMOAN AWARD EVEN THE KAFFIR STRIKES ANGLO-COLONIAL BANKING CONTINENTAL ROYALTIES’ VISIT SUPPRESSION IN FINLAND [United Ppess Association. — P>t Electric Telegraph—Copyright ] LONDON, Oct. 28. The boot and shoe factories of Canada have been consolidated into a trust, with a capital of eight million dollars. A sudden fire in a Castilian forest, in Spain, caused a panic among ten thousand pilgrims ascending a mountain, and in a terrible stampede many fell over a precipice. It is officially announced that three great jurists, including Baron Cederkranz, the eminent Swedish international law authority, who was Chief Justice of Samoa in 1900, advised King Oscar, the arbitrator on claims arising out of the last trouble, making the Samoan award to Germans £llOO. Kaffir dockers at Capetown have struck owing to a reduction in daily wages to 3s 6d. Shipping is paralysed. The English, Scottish, and Australian Bank report shows that the profits amounted to £170,000. There has been added to reserve £15,000 ; a dividend of 4 per cent is to be paid ; carried forward, £13,136. The terminable deposits were shown as at £194,500 ; deposits on current account, £2,106,000 ; cash investments, £921,000 ; bills, £606,000 ; advances, £4,164,000.

The King is attending the Newmarket races.

The War Office will in future provide officers of cavalry and horse artillery with two chargers free and other mounted officers with one. The Danish Crown Prince has been cordially received at Potsdam. His visit is interpreted as an official reconciliation between Denmark and Germany. The Czar shortly visits the King of Italy, and also visits the Pope privately. He then goes to Montenegro and Athens and probably to Stamboul A statue of Elias Lonnrot, the father of Finnish literature, was un veiled in silence at Helsingfors, the Russian governor forbidding the singing of the Finnish anthem and not allowing speeches unless they were first submitted to him for revision. A Polish newspaper, published in Paris, has been excluded from Germany for two years. This is the fourth Polish paper similarly dealt with. Latest. LONDON, Oct. 29. Received 29th, 10.26 p.m. The expedition against the Mad Mullah has been increased to 5000. VERY TOUCHY The Colombian Government, resenting United States’ action in policing the railways for the protection of foreigners during the insurrection, objects to alienate land for the canal, but offers 100 years’ lease and demands an annual payment of 600,000 dollars. Received 29th, 11.4 p.m. Mr Siever denies that Sir Tattoo Sykes has purchased the filly Sceptre, and states that she will be submitted to auction to-day with a reserve of twenty-four thousand guineas on her.

Received 30th, 0.20 a.m. BY THE RED SEA The Italian Government has granted Great Britain permission to pursue the Mad Mullah in her sphere in East Africa. The Porte explains that Turkey’s occupation of territory inhabited by Arabs enjoying British protection was caused by the suspension of the Aden frontier delimitation commission, and promises that the Turks will withdraw. Received 30th, 0.25 a.m. STRENGTH BEFORE SPEED The U.S. Board of Naval Construction has decided that there shall be a better supply of armoured cruisers with superiority of battery power

rather than a slight superiority in speed. Admiral Melville complains that) this will render the American cruisers inferior to British cruisers of the Drake class. GAUNT AND OMINOUS Though Mount Pelee is .now quiescent an immense opening on the southwest slope has grown to formidable dimensions, and White River is choked near its source. THE HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL Britain, Germany, France, and Japan have agreed to refer to The Hague tribunal the construction of a treaty relating to perpetual leases, under which foreigners inay hold property in Japan. Mr Warr, M.P. for East Toxteth, Liverpool, has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Australian RAIN FALLING IN THE DROUGHTY WEST STATE DIFFERS FROM FED- . ERAL GOVERNMENT NEW CALEDONIA AND NEW HEBRIDES RETRENCHMENT CARRIED IN VICTORIA SYDNEY, Oct' 29. Light rain is falling over nearly the who e State, including the west. The Assembly, on a motion for adjournment, urged the imperative necessity of the State Government continuing the posting of shipping telegrams, and strongly condemned the Federal Government’s decision to discontinue doing so. The Federal Cabinet yesterday discussed the subject, but arrived at no decision.

The New South Wales quarterly revenue is £36,000 less than for the corresponding period of last year, as a result of the drought.

The Governor of New Caledonia, interviewed, declared that there was a strong feeling, not only in Archipelago itself, but amongst French residents, in favour of the annexation of the New Hebrides to France. He expressed strong opposition to a renewal of the transportation of convicts to New Caledonia. Nearly all the residents were opposed to it, and Australia need have no fear in the matter. MELBOURNE, Oct. 29. Sir E. Barton states that the assent of France has been secured to the appointment of a land court to deal with disputes as to lands in New Hebrides, and only the details remain to be settled. There is, he thinks, no need to apprehend French preponderance in the islands, or to be alarmed at -suggested French annexation. Sir E. Barton intends to ask Mr Chamberlain to extend his visit to Australia, but he is not sanguine that he will be able to accept. The Assembly' passed the State Retrenchment Bill. ALBANY, Oct. 29. A fire destroyed the Central Coffee Palace, doing damage to the extent of £6OOO. Latest. SYDNEY, Oct. 29. Received 29th, 10.35 p.m. STILL SUGAR IN SUGAR The Colonial Sugar Company’s profit for the half year was L 100,341, and a dividend of 10 per cent has been declared. The report stated that unless good rains fall immediately the forthcoming season’s crop will be much reduced. The chairman said that with the abolition of bounties in Europe next year there were prospects that they were entering upon a period of quiet development, to which the sugar business had been a stranger since the 1884 crisis. He declared that in the tropics, as yet, there was no evidence that cane can be grown and cut by Europeans, and in most cases where white labour had been tried this season the results were unsatisfactory. The directors’ remuneration was increased from LlOOO to LISOD. MELBOURNE, Oct. 29. Received 29th, 10.35 p.m. The Federal Cabinet has revoked the order against posting shipping telegrams, but in future the various States will have to pay the cost of their transmission.