Cable News.

Temuka Leader, Issue 4059, 6 June 1903, Page 1

Cable News.

HOME AND FOREIGN. LONDON, June i Fifty-six Moors were killed and twenty wounded in the attack on M. Journat, the Governor of Algeria. Gustav Rau and William Smith, the two seamen sentenced to death in connection with murders on the barque Veronica, have been executed at Liverpool. : Juno 3. According to Reuter, the prospect of assembling a joint High Commission to settle outstanding questions between America and Canada is less hopeful. It is hinted in official circles at Washington that since Mr Chamberlain held out a hope of preferential treatment it is noticeable that Canada is less desirous of reciproc.ty with America.

•Mr Chamberlain has .invited, 7000 members - '6l" "the-'""West Birmingham Liberal Unionist Association to a garden party at his Birmingham residence on the 20th inst.

King Edward attends the review at Aldershot on the 22nd inst. Fifteen thousand looms have been stopped in south-east Lancashire, in order to curtail the production 0 cotton goods. Arthur Shrewsbury, the cricketer, bequeathed £IOOO to Nottingham Hospital. The Daily Mail advises that the Discovery's relief expedition should be entrusted to Admiral Fanshawe.

Her Majesty the Queen has visited the ruins of Mr Kindersley's house at Eton, and sympathised w th the boys and masters.

Playing against Sussex, Gilbert Jessop scored 286 runs in less than three hours.

Russia declines to place further orders for warships abroad.

PARIS, June 2

Lightning exploded submarine mines at Cherbourg, harbor as a German liner was entering. She had a narrow escape.

BERLIN. June 3

The Kaiser has compelled fortyfour Generals to resign owing ,to their blundering in connection with the military manoeuvres, which are proceeding at Doeberitz. ST. PETERSBURG, June 2.

It is reported that the Czar intends to promulgate a new law of succession, enabling hia eldest daughter to succeed, failing the birth of a son.

CAPETOWN, June 2

The Gauss has reached Capetown all well. She was ce-bound a year, and reached OOdeg. 39min. south latitude. She communicated with the Discovery expedition. NEW YPRK, June 3.

Damage estimated at 500,000 dols. was done at Gainsville in two minutes. The tornado was preceded by a few minutes of inky blackness and hot stifling air. The two upperstoreys of a mill which was crowded with opjeratives were lifted and carried hundreds of feet. • Railway stations, a church, and a score of cottages were demolished. The sun was shining again within five minutes.. Six hundred square miles southward, of Keokuk were inundated. The loss? of property at Kansas City is ! 1,000,000 dollars. St. Louis is: threatened with a disastrous flood. The total fatalities at the town of. Topeka North were fifty, and about? the same at Kansas City. Fifty? people were drowned in the Kaih; Valley, Arizona. AUSTRALIAN CABLES. | SYDNEY, June 4. | The progress report of the Methodist Commission on Fiji finds that? the perversion at Namosi is in no? way the result of religious convictions on the part of the people in favor of Roman Catholicism, but was; caused by political agitators who*are! in favor of the federation of Fiji with? New Zealand. The defection of the natives is chiefly of a political nature, and the report states that the Catholic priests took advantage of political disaffection to pervert the people ; that in carrying this out the priests took the unjustifiable course of taking possession of Methodist premises ; that Bibles wete systematically collected and rosaries given in exchange; that these Biblees were taken fifty or sixty miles to Naililili? the scene of the burning ; and that the commissioners have reason to believe that the copies of the Scriptures which were collected in the: Soloira district were torn up by the priests on the passage to Rewa and ; thrown into the river. The burning; of Bibles at Naililili is MDyi con- 1 firmed. A lifeboat and a buoy bearing the words "Tropic, Stockholme" have been picked ujp on the beach at Port Stephens. The Tropic is a 1600-ton! barque, and is 79 days out from San Francisco to Melbourne with a cargo of breadstuffs. * It is feared. that either her decks were swept or that she has foundered in the gale. Since Sunday more than twelve inches of rain have fallen in the Kempsey district, and the lower parts of the town are under water. The schooner Elliston was wrecked at Tacking Point. The crew are safe. The Norma, which was hi a dangerous position near vue Newcastle breakwater, has been safely lowed in by the tug. PERTH, June 3. A. Scotchman claims to have invented a flying machine which win travel 100 miles an hour, and carry a weight up to 1000 tons. No balloon is used, and it is a purely median.cal contrivance driven by a gaso lene motor. The military authorities have forwarded particulars of the invention to the Defence Department, Melbourne. The inventor asks the Defence Department to pay him £0 a week while constructing a machine on the principle of the working model. If the machine is a success and approved by the Department, then the Government shall pay him .£1,000,00! for the whole rights.