CABLEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11876, 5 March 1907, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

London, March 4 Obituary— Lionel Decle, the African explorer, aetat'4B:; Sir August Manns, Musical Diieetor of Crystal Palace, aetatß2. Mr Oldbam, :an opthaltnic surgeon at Brighton, hafcAegoeatbed sixty thousand :poortds c sterJififc for thefuri theranoeu>f ibigiißtefcdflCfttioD. . I Lord Strathcona, High Ototomiasioner for Gatrada, on behalf of subscribers, basrpresented Sir Charles Tupper, his predecessor in the Canadian High Oommisßionership, with a portrait of the recipient. Sir Charles Tuppar, in responding, advocated Imperial trade preference. The "Daily Mail" states that J R Maokay the Australian cricketer, who has taken up his residence in South Africa, bas been invited to join the South African cricket team for England. For the London County Council elections there were 262 candidates, including 118 Municipal Reformers, 13 Independents, 109 Progressives, and 12 Socialists and Labor. The polls totalled 509,091 for the Moderates and 360,301 Progressive votes were cast. Twenty-one Progressive ex-Councilors were defeated, and the Reformers obtained a^decisive victory, returning 80 members against 34 Progressives, three Labor and one Independent. General Botha has re-arranged the Transvaal Cabinet, Mr Edward P Solomon, president 1 of the Nationalist party, becoming Minister of Works, Mr Smuts Colonial Secretary and Mines,"Mr Bussik Lands, Sir Kichard Solomon declined to join the Ministry. ...... St Petersburg, March 3 Six men murdered Baron Budberg (a member of the Counoilof the Russian Empire, and formerly chief of the Esthonian nobility) at his country residence. The chief of the gendarmes in the Trans-Caucasian railway was shot dead in the streets of Tiflis. Berlin, March 2 Various sections of the Radicals in the Reichstag have warned Prince von Bulow, the Chancellor, that the price of their support must be liberal reforms. . ■ Amsterdam, March 2 The mail boat, Konigin Wilbelniina, has been stranded outside Flushing. A tug rescued ninety passengers and the mails; Brussels, March 3 The Konigin Wilhelmina has been re-floated. - § Mairid, March 3 The King of Spain, yielding to the Bishops' protest, has abrogated the decree of August which authorised civil. marriage without a declaration of the contracting parties' religion. \, New York, March 3 Mrs Eddy's son is proceeding against the trustees of the Christian Science Society to secure a? financial statement because his mother, he alleges, is mentally and physically feeble. The Lower LlouSe of California has passed a bill virtually preventing aliens from holding landed property in California; Admittedly the bill is aimed at the Japanese. The Conference Committee of Congress at Washington have deleted Mr Beveridgo's -amehdnient in the Agricultural Bill requiring packers to put tbe . date /of canning on all meat products. Melbourne, March j± A fire in the fore-hold of the steamer Kanorfna, lying at the wharf, was quickly subdued and the vessel was undamaged, but one thousand tons of cargo were damaged by fire and water. The Inter-State Labor ; Conference has resolved that to overcome, the Taff Vale decision- the 'new British law should be followed. A motion protesting against the prohibition of tne use of Union funds for political purposes was carried.