CABLE NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5488, 8 January 1907, Page 1

CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LONDON, Jan. I’.. The Britannia’s consignment of South Australian eggs averaged about lOd a dozen for fertile and 1/J for infertile. The average was reduced by a considerable number having a "‘fruity”, llavor. This was apparently due to .their carriage from Adelaide in cases previously used for lemons. The body of the late Baroness Bur-dett-Ooutts is lying in state at her Stratton Street residence. The Ageiits-Gcncrnl have secured large 'space' for a combined Australian display at the Franco-British Exhibition at Shepherd’s Bush in DOS. Ludwig Loelller, the financier, who was largely interested in the 'Vest Australian markets, -has left an estate valued at £5,500,000, which pays duty ■to the extent of £50,000.

The Rugby Union .Committee recommend tiie New South Wales representative team not to "visit t'lie United Kingdom next season, but 'hope to encourage a visit the following season. The crew of the Hyde lifeboat. ( which capsized in a gale, drifted throughout the night, holding on to the lifelines. They suffered terribly. Two of 'their ■number were drowned. The damage by the Portsmouth tire is. estimated at X'23'0,000. Jan. 0. During earthquake shocks, Monmouthshire houses were much shaken. The success of General Booth s anti' suicide bureau has been so marked that branch offices have been opened in the large provincial towns'. The lion. W. P. Reeves is 'sending to the Wellington branch of the Navy League a piece of canvas 'from one of the sails used by Lord Nelson’s flagship, the Victory, at Trafalgar. M. Gambon, French Ambassador in 1 London, has been appointed Ambassador at Berlin. Although President Roosevelt nml the entire Administration oppose annexation, they consider that Cuba is unfit for self-government and that it is necessary for the United States to furnish some clement of permanent stability. The Archbishop ;of Canterbury, Arch 1 bishop Bourne, and the Reverend John Scott lidgett,. President ol the Council of the Free Churches, have signed a message to the nation urging adequate and reasonable observance j>{ the Sabbath. All the newspapers cordially endorse the appeal. Spectators thronged the route from the residence of the late Baroness Burdett Coutts in Stratton street to

Westminster Ablbcy. She was buried at iheUoot of Lord- Shaftesbury’s memorial. Prince Francis of Took, the Dukes of Wellington, and Argyll,' Lord Peel and Mr Herbert Gladstone wore among the pall-boarcrs. The King end Queen and tire Prince of) Wales were represented at the funeral, mid many political leaders were present. The catafalque in her late residence was viewed by fully 2C,00t) persons of all classes. BERLIN, Jan. 3. Chili has sold to a German firm 2GOO Mannlicher rifles and cartridges for mountain batteries for £250,000. It is supposed that they are intended for the Turkish Government. The workmen refuse to accept Prince von Bulow’s manifesto. It has satisfied ,only the Centre (and the social democrats. The Conservatives;are horrified at the idea of Liberalism occupying a place among the Centre partyThc Radical press' sullenly demand concessions before 'joining the national block against the Centre, the social democrats, the Guelphs and Poles. Jan. 4. Germany during the current year builds an armored turbine cruiser of 20,000 lons, costing £1,300,000 sterling, not including armament. PARIS, January 4. The South African footballers defeated a learn representing the Sports Club of,France, by 59 points to fi. BUDA-PESTH, Jan. 5. Nicholas Swnere, a sportsman, lost £27,000 at muds at a club at BudaPcsth in out silting. BUCHAREST, dan. 3.

Wolves on the Roumanian frontier devoured a clergyman and his servant who were sleighing. 1 Many others were attacked and injured. TEHERAN, Jan. 3. The Assembly at Teheran has accepted the revised constitution.

NEW YORK, Jaa. 4. 'After four years’ absence Madame Melba reappeared at Now York and met with an immense reception. Owing to the recent earthquake al-. taring the currents of the Pacific the United States Government Iravo undertaken the recharting of the ocean. Mr Cassatt, President of the Penns\4vmiia : Railway Company has died,, leaving estate valued at £20,000,000. The CouiT at Chicago sustained eight indictments charging* the Standard Oil Company with accepting rebates. The trial is proceeding. _ T , " BUENOS !AYRES, Jan. 4. The police of Pergaiiiino in the Ar-„ gen tine, in dispersing a demonstyatiun against municipal taxes killed six persons and wounded seventeen. AUSTRALIAN''CABLES." <p—— SYDNEY, Jail. 4. A tragedy is reported from Sabranm'tta, Mrs Dean, in sudden madness, attacked her throe’young children with an axe, severely if,not dangerously injuring them. After arrest shw attempted to throw hcns-clf, under a train. She declared that her children would be better oil dead, .and that she would rather be hanged. She was •pent to an asylum. The Croat Barrier- exports of lead, silver, and zinc, for the past year, were valued at £2,075,000. Jan. 0. Mr Williams’ meat preserving works in Campcrdown were destroyed by lire. The damage is £4OOO, -and the insurances £0750. Tiro mishap lias thrown lifty men out of work. English farm laborers are' arriving in fairly largo numbers as a result of the G overu meat V, assisted immigration scheme. 'Three somnambulists have met .With accidents at Sydney during the past fortnight, two of them proving fatal. ADELAIDE, January 4. The State’s exports for-'the past year increased by over £2,000,000-, arid the imports by £BOO,OOO. The trade totalled £10,000,000, an. increase of £0,000,0(50, the direct ovcr-sca trade amounting nearly to £10,000,000. MELBOURNE, Jan. 5. - The lion. J. IV. Taverner has been appointed Agent-General for Victoria in Loudon for three years, at) tr salary of £IOOO per annum. (Previously the salary was £ISOO per annum)-. BRISBANE, Jan. 5. A lire in the main street of Roma destroyed live shops and damaged live others. ____________