LATE CABLES

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 321, 8 January 1907, Page 5

LATE CABLES

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT |

BRITISH POLITICS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received January 8,12.25 a.m. London, January 7. The Daily News says: “If we cannot put Mr Redmond in Mr Bryce’s place, which he of all men is the fittest to occupy it, we ought to choose no weak or inconspicuous figure nor a man comparing disadvautageously with Bari Wyndham, and a distinguished Tory statesman who graduated there. The Ministry in other departments requires strengthening. Lord Elgin should be relieved of his position, wherefor he has never shown a fitness. The Liberals had anxiously watched many danger points of the South African policy, and Lord Elgin has not contented the colonies. We are afraid that the absurd restrictions on the number of Premiers attending the Colonial Conference has done much harm. The same applies to the treatment of Australasia in the matter of the New Hebrides.” OBITUARIES. . London, January 7. Mr David Murray, merchant, formerly a politican in Adeliade is dead. The death of Mr W. Read a Surrey cricketer is also recorded. APPOINTMENTS TO HAGUE . PEACE TRIBUNAL. London, January 7. Lord Selby and Sir Ernest Satow have been appointed members of the permanent International Court of Arbitration at the Hague. AUSTRALIAN INVENTION. London, January 7.

An invention by Mr A. Austin, a Victorian, which it is understood enables guns to be sighted in the roughest of weather, has been submitted to the British War Office.

BIG REDUCTION IN NAVAL POWER. London, January 7. The Daily Mail, commenting on the official list of the Channel, Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets and Cruiser Squadrons, after the Lagos manoeuvres in March next, remarks that the reduction in the fighting force immediately available in the event of an outbreak of war, is nearly 25 per cent. JAPANESE V. UNCLE SAM. LONDON, January 7. The Times states that public opinion in Japan is becoming quieter and it is believed that the San Francisco difficulty is insufficient to disturb the traditional friendship with the United States.

JAPAN BOOMING. London, January 7. Japan’s foreign trade in 1906 amounted, to £84,000,000. Exports exceeded the imports. DUCHESS OF CUMBERLAND ILL. London, December 7. The Duchess of Cumberland was taken suddenly ill at Ginunden, and has since undergone a successful operation. MORE CHINESE COOLIES. Pietermaritzburg, January 7. The steamer Cranley brought 2129 Coolies to Durban, though early in December, Mr Winston Churchill stated that only a thousand were aboard to complete the number for whom licenses had been issued. MINING CALAMITY. Berlin, January 7. Eighteen navvies at Bingin are still buried alive in the coal mine and their case is considered hopeless. THE ABYSSINIAN OUTLAW. Rome, January 7. Regarding Mariam, the Abyssinian outlaw, who in April last raided a number of Soudanese villages. II Messagero in Rome, stated that Lieutenant Pallera was sent to Noggera, within the Italian sphere, to inquire into the raids, and he acquitted natives. The British Government, however, were dissatisfied with the result and had the chief of Noggera arrested. After insisting on this, the Court at Adisabeba, the Abyssinian capital, obtained Pollera’s departure. La Tribuna says Pollera was simply recalled, and there-is no divergence between Britain and Italy.