LATE CABLES

Waikato Independent, Volume III, Issue 184, 27 January 1906, Page 5

LATE CABLES

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RESIGNATION IN FAVOR OF MR BALFOUR. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received .January 26, 9.37 p.ra.) London, January 26. Mr Alban Gibbs, member for London, offered to resign in Mr Arthur Balfour’s favour. Mr Balfour gratefully accepted the offer on public grounds. He is unlikely to bo opposed. WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED. London, January 26. Mr John Burns, at the instigation of the Battersea Borough, has engaged two thousand unemployed in road making. WRECK OF THE VALENCIA. Vancouver, January 26. The Valencia is a total wreck. Out of 151 on board only 15 were saved. Twenty more of the Valencia’s passengers were rescued on a raft. Later. The Valencia’s dead total 107. NEW STATES ADMITTED. Washington, January 25. The House by 191 to 160 adopted a bill admitting Arizona, New Mexico, and Oaklama as two new States. REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA. Received January 26, 8.50 a.m. Capetown, January 26. Dr. Jamieson, at a banquet held in Capetown, said representative government would be granted to the Transvaal in a few days and responsible institutions would be in full swing in August. 250 DEATHS FROM PLAGUE. Theban, January 26. Two hundred and fifty deaths from plague occurred at Seistan. A DANGEROUS LUNATIC. New York, January 26. A maniac at St. Louis is still at large after wounding fourteen women with a double-edged knife.- : A THIEF PUNISHED. Parts, January 26. Jolugot has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for misappropriating the Prin Temps Savings Bank funds. KING ALFONSO. Paris, January 26. King Alfonso of Spain, who is at Biarritz, is visiting Princess Eva.