LATE CABLES

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 319, 3 January 1907, Page 5

LATE CABLES

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ENGLAND AND FRANCE. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION) (Received January 2, 9.88 p.m.) London, January 2. The King and Queen are spending a week at Chatswortb. The King in ■ acknowledging the New Year greetings of the echode of Paris, said he earnestly trusted that the warm friendship between the two countries, would never be disturbed. ; A NEW DREADNOUGHT. ,S London, January 2. ■ The keel plate of the battleship Temeraire, a new Dreadnought, was laid at Devonport. POLITICAL UNREST IN INDIA. Calcutta, January 2. The Indian Congress has closed. Naoragi claimed that the people of India were entitled to self-government, like the United Kingdom or the colonies. They appealed to Mahom-. medans to assist, as without thorough political union self-government was • unobtainable. Three thousand delegates attended/ ’ the Mahommedan Educational Conference at Dacca, and decided to form a political league of Moslems in all ■ parts of India to promote loyalty to ' the British Government and advance the political rights of Musselmans. Nawags, of Dacca, declared a mischievous section of the India Congress extremists had made it compulsory to form a league to prevent Moslems being submerged by the enormous ■ noisy Hindoo majority. -. A GENEROUS GIFT. , ■ Mexico, January 2. Senor Alvarado, tho Mexican Croesus, has entrusted the Govern- : ment with £2,000,000 for distribution amongst the poor. AFGHAN AMEER ON TOUR. Calcutta, January 2. The Ameer of Afghanistan was ■ welcomed on arrival at the Indian frontier, en route to confer with Lord Kitchener.

LIFEBOAT CAPSIZES. London, January 2; The Hyde lifeboat capsized in a gale, and two men were drowned. OBITUARY. London, January 2. Obituary—Mrs Josephine Butler, leader of the agitation for the aboli- ' tion of the Contagious Diseases Act.