LATE CABLES

Waikato Independent, Volume IV, Issue 291, 16 October 1906, Page 5

LATE CABLES

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. STEAMER BURNED,

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION) Received October 16, 9.37 a.m. Hongkong, October 15. The steamer burnt at Hongkong was the Hankow, not the Canton, as previously reported. She had 2000 Chinese and seven European passengers aboard. The cargo consisted of matting and raw silk. The vessel had just berthed, and in a few minutes was ablaze fore and aft. It was impossible to get the hose to work, as the fire flouts were damaged in the recent cyclone.

OBITUARY. London, October 15. Sir Richard Tangye, engineer, is dead, aged 73. HOME RULE. (Received October 10, 8.29 a.m.) London, October 12. Mr Redmond, at Tyrone, offered to go to great lengths, short of the abandonment of the principle of Home Rule to satisfy Ulstermen that their religious interests would not be endangered under Home Rule. He warned Irish Nationalists that the acceptance of administrative Home Rule only, would probably cause Home Rule to disappear from practical politics for a generation. COLONIAL PREFERENCE. London, October 15. Viscount Ridley, in a letter to the Tariff Reform League, declares the Government's attitude towards Colonial offers, with regard to preference, must be critically important, in view of the Colonial Conference, for if the Colonial delegates were sent away with the door shut on preference, both consolidation of the Empire and the economic future of the United Kingdom will become exceedingly grave. GERMANS SNUBBED. New York, October 15. The German manufacturers, who visited the United States, seeking specially for favourable administration of the Customs law for German goods, were bluntly informed that threats of a tariff war would not have any influence upon American officials. THE CADETS IN THE COLONIES. London, October 15. Lord Methuen, addressing the Dover College Cadets, pointedly referred to the wonderful growth of the cadet movement in the colonies, especially in New Zealand. RESIGNATION OF PRINCE HOHENLOHE. Berlin, October 15. Prince Alexander Hohenlohe has resigned the presidentship of the Upper Alsace. THE WINGATE EXPLOSIONLondon, October 15. Twenty-seven Bodies have been recovered from the Wingato colliery, at Durham, and thirty have been rescued alive. It is feared that more are still entombed,