CABLE NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5420, 28 July 1906, Page 1

CABLE NEWS.

BKITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, .July 21. The will of the laic Sir Charles Tellium t Ims boon proved at £3,151,07 J. Lie left nothing to charities. Tin;'lulu Mr Russell Sage's fortune is estimated at £20,000,000 sterling. The Harvard Eight will row Cambridge University on the Thames on .September Ist. The Pan American Congress is sitting at Rio Janeiro. Venezuela, Domingo, and FTayti are not represented. President Roosevelt and President Diaz, of Mexico, were thanked for the reconciliation of Guatemala, Snnsalvador, and Honduras. The Rajah of .Sarawak, a State in •tire Island of Borneo, has executed eight Chinamen, members of a secret •society, for plotting against the Government and committing several murders. Captain Wynyard has joined the cricket'team fur New 'Zealand. July 23. instead of building two more Dreadnoughts and two 'big armoured cruisers, the 'Government intend to build three. Dreadnoughts—one at Portsmouth, another at Dovonport, ami the third at a private yard. They will have a speed of 21 knots, be able to cross nnd recross'the Atlantic without recoaling, and be able to passthrough the Suez Canal. Queen Wilhelmina, of the Netherlands, has been prematurely confined, to the great disappointment of the nation. The inquiry into the Marquis of Towns-hmd's sanity has commenced. Kxtraoidhiary allegations were made. Counsel asserts that the Marchioness's father is an undischarged 'bankrupt, although he agreed to settle £27,000 and £2OOO a year an 'his daughter. Twenty unemployed at Bradford seized a plot of vacant land belonging to the Midland 'Railway. Tire Westi Ham Council has decided to evict the land grabbers at Plaistow. Horace New failed to swim the Chan nel. He. was immersed for eight hours July 20. The Agents-General havo arranged for a united Australian exhibition to be open in London for two months early in ]'JO7, afterwards visiting, the ieig'ht leading provincial towns. A number of AusiiraYfevn firms fti London arc warmly supporting the.sehcnve 'live cost will 'not exceed £3OOO. Tiie case Commissioner of Taxes of New Zealand versus the Eastern Extension Company, was, on appeal, dismissed with costs.

Professor Bashford, superinttndent of 'the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, states that exhaustive experiments with mice encourage the hope that the mysteries' of cancer in mankind have been penetrated. A great fire in Wellingston Street, 'Levds, did damage estimated at £IOO,OOO. NEW YORK, July 21. A train jumped the rails near Spokane, Washington, and rushed down an embankment 00 feet into Diamond

Lake. Eleven persons were drowned, and the ears water. MANILA, July 20. Five gundivd Filipinos attacked 75 American colored troops at Canver, but were repulsed with the loss of 50 killed and 100 wounded. The Americans came off scathless. VIENNA, July 25.

While motoring near Beyrouth, the steering gear of the motor car occupied by Mr and Mrs Longworth (nee Miss Alice Roosevelt) collapsed, and the car dropped ten feet over an embankment. The occupants woro shaken. AUSTRALIAN CABLES. SYDNKY, July 25. The ship Neotslield made the passage from Capetown to Newcastle in thirty days, beating a tramp steamer, which left East London for the same port three days afterwards, by a day. The banks here have notified the alterations in the rates of exchange on London, similar to those in force in the other Slates and in New Zealand. July 20.

Jn connection with his suspension in Parliament, Mr Crick has issued writs aguinst -Mr McCoiirt, Speaker of. the House, and Mr Harnett, Sergoant-at-Arms, of the Assembly, claiming £2OOO damages in each case. Probably Sir Richard Baker, Presideot of the Senate, will represent the Federal Government 'at the opening of (he New Zealand Exhibition. ... MELBOURNE, July 25. The annual report of the Melbourne Hospital shows that 2000 persons die annually in Victoria from consumption. The report urges the Government to take preventive measures. Willis arrived from Durban today, en route from Sydney. July 20. The Rev. Mr Worrall has been summoned to appear at the Bar of the House to oxplain his references to Sir Samuel Gillctt, the Chief Secretary. In addressing a meeting at Bendigo he said he intended to obey the summons in the name of God, in the name of citizenship, and in the hope of a more glorious and prosperous Australia. If any penally were imposed for his words In; would thank God for having allowed him to come into His fellowship of suffering. (The Rev. Mr Worrall, in a sermon at Bendigo, denounced Sir Samuel Gillotl, Chief Secretary for Victoria, in connection with the recent gambling t mired i ex. lie impeached the Minister with the guilt of the blood (lowing from the wounds of gamblers, and said it was nonsense for him to pretend that he was powerless to stop the scourge, which was creating a wry Gethsemaiio of woe and trouble. In referring to the sermon jin the House. Mr Bend said that he would soon "straighten Mr Worrall up.")