LATE CABLES

Waikato Independent, Volume III, Issue 183, 25 January 1906, Page 5

LATE CABLES

[by electric telegraph — copyright)

FEAEFUL FAMINE IN JAPAN.

[by ELECTRIC! TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.]

(pee press association.) (Received January ‘24, 11.10 p.ra.) Toiao, January 24. Hundreds are dying of cold and hunger in the famine districts in Japan. GERMANY AND PRANCE. London, January 24. There arc indications that neither Germany or France are able to carry out their own programme at the Algeciras Conference without modification. THE CHINESE IN SOUTH AFRICA. London, January 24. The Hon. R. B. Haldane, speaking at Drera, Haddingtonshire, said he would be an extreme opponent of Chinese labour. If the Transvaal wished the Chinese we should wash our hands of the affair. CANADA AND JAPAN. Received January 25, 8.26 a.m. OTTAWA, January 24, Canada has arranged a treaty with a minimum duty on goods from and to Japan. WRECK OF A STEAMER. SIXTY LIVES LOST. Vancouver, January 24. The Pacific Coast Company’s steamer Valencia ran ashore at Vancouver. Sixty were drowned, and one hundred are in peril. Nine others reached Cape Beall. A salvage steamer has been sent to the scene. AMERICAN POLITICS. Washington, January 24. The Republican and Democratic members of the House of Representatives Committee on interstate and foreign commerce adopted a rate bill, which is to be called the Hepburn Bill, and provides for just, reasonable and fairly remunerative freight rates. A MOVING MOUNTAINSIDE. Beene, January 24. Two miles of a mountain-side are moving and threatening the towns of Chamoson, Uruguay, and the canton of Valais. The inhabitants are panic-stricken and are fleeing.