LATE CABLES.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 322, 10 January 1907, Page 5

LATE CABLES.

[by electric telegraph—copyright] OPENING OP BRITISH PARLIAMENT. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 9. 10.54 p.m.) London, January 9. King Edward will open Parliament in State. REPORTED DEATH OP THE SHAH. LONDON, December 9. The Daily Mail’s Teheran correspondent announces the death of the Shah of Persia. BRITAIN’S TRADE PROSPERITY. .London, January 9. The Times, commenting on the Board of Trade returns, says Britain has done nothing fiscally to bring about the present period of prosperity which is considerably overdue. A wave of trade activity is general and almost as universally enjoyed by the most Protectionist nations as fully as Britain. THE AMEER. London, January 9. The Times Agra correspondent says the Ameer of Afghanistan, halted at Nowshera and Rawalpindi. He showed a knowledge of artillery, paid close attention to the field pieces, and expressed admiration at the movements of the troops. AMERICAN CORRUPTION:^ A New York, January 9. ’ The New York Sun, commenting on the railway and other disclosures, denounces the methods of men controlling .corporations in corruptly buying infamous advantages over competitors, buying legislators and vitiating the moral sense of the whole community. PETER’S PENCE..” Rome, January 9. The Pope, owing to the separation hw, has relinquished Prance’s Peter’s Pence,” amounting to £20,000 per annum. ASSISTING SETTLERS IN NATAL. Pietermaritzburg, January 9. Subject to Parliamentary sanction, Mr Moore, Premier of Natal, proposes to offer Crown lands to settlers in Natal rent free for five years, with a loan to provide implements, cattle and seed on easy terms.

THE LA 808 PARTY. Received January 10, 8.22 a.ra. London, January 9. Sir Chas. Dilke, speaking at Cork, indicated that next session he would introduce an Anti-sweating Bill, based on the Victorian system, and stated the Labor Party was negotiating for closer union with the miners and other Trades Union groups. SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALLERS. London, January 9. The Daily Express says it is estimated the South African footballers will receive nearly £IO,OOO gate money, which will be devoted chiefly to charity and the encouragement of Rugby football in South Africa. Johannesburg, January 9. A fund is being raised in Johannesburg to endow beds in the hospitals in South Africa to commemorate the footballers’ English success. THE CATTLE-MAIMING CASE. London, January 9. After investigating Edalji’s sentence in October, 1903, for cattlemaiming, Sir A. Conan Doyle publishes a fourteen-column article in the Daily Telegraph, in which he appeals to the public to ask that the unjust persecution, amounting to a public scandal, should be inquired into.