LATE CABLES

Waikato Independent, Volume VI, Issue 384, 11 June 1907, Page 5

LATE CABLES

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SIB HENRY CAMPBELL - BAN- - HERMAN; (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION) Received June 10, 9.48, p.m. London, June 10. Sin Henry Campbell-Bannerman, i at the Exeter Railway Station, in - reply to a Liberal address, said they should go straight forward, of abuse. There was no reason why-A they should be hustled or bustled V into a general election. It would be \ the worst thing possible to allow the I House of Lords to dictate to them in that respect. Mr Winston , Churchill, replying toMr Cox, said Mr Botha was asking , for the retention of the Imperial : troops in South Africa, but he bad ' not , offered to contribute to their 4 maintenance out of the Transvaal’s ! revenue the same as India.

U.S. PRESIDENCY. New Yoek, June 10. < The Republicans in Pennsylvania endorsed the nomination of Senator ■ Knox as a candidate for the Presidency, though Mr Taft is better known and more widely popular than Mr Knox. The latter has an influential following in New England and is popular in the North-west. ’ Both are-considered suitable expon- f; ents of President Roosevelt’s policy. ■ i BURSTING OP'A‘CLOUD. r London. June 10. ' A cloud burst and flooded and kil- f led 20 persons at Gradyville, Kon- 1 ’ tucky. * b

CONCESSION BY THE CZAR/ •?; St. Petersburg, June 10. ■ ; It is now announced that the Czar ■h has ratified the rcsolufcioa of thu Council of-Ministers in favor of grant-, \, r ing a concession in the construction vi of the railway from Kansk to Behring • k Straits and a submarine tunnel under the Straits to America. . ■ H i ' ■ ,:M ADULTEPvATION OE WINE. ; | Paris, June 10.

The peasant population of two and ';; a half millions in the South of France • solidly support the agitation for legis- _ ,'j lation against the adulteration of wh|\ A half million people flocked ‘v to Mont Pollicr. A monster peaceful , demonstration took place yester- , day. Hundreds of special trains brought people from beyond a radius • of 21 miles. The organisers stipu- ' \ latcd that those living within that distance should walk or. ride in carts. The Bishop placed the Cathedral and ! Churches at the organisers’ disposal to accommodate the women and children unable- to find lodgings. Marcellin Albert, the leader of the movement, and himself a peasant, enjoined the strictest sobriety of- his _ followers, lest the cause should he in- Z jured and imphasised the necessity of protesting against the needless prosenco of ten thousand troops. No , ? intoxicants were sold at. the demon- ; stration.

GERMAN COLONIAL ACADEMY. f (Deceived Tune 10, 8.50 a.iu.) . BERLIN. Juno 10. Before starting on a, tour o£ in-. spection of the German-Atrcan Colonies Count Dernberg, Director of German-Colonial Affairs, is conferring, with the merchants at Bremen and . Hamburg to organise a great Colonial Academy. ’••• .MOTOR CAR RACE. , ' Paris, Juno 10. Three Drench motors, one Dutch, and one Italian, have started a race from Pekin to Paris. TRADES UNION GRIME IN THE STATES. WHOLESALE MURDERS. New York, June 10. Orchard, the chief witnesses’ evidence in the murder trial,has rtf brained unshaken under a two days’ crossexamination. He confessed to other crimes including arson and the shooting of Detective Gregory at the instigation of the Miners’ Pcdoratipn leaders. Lp HETVOLIv CONGRESS. Capetown, Juno io. The Hetvolk. Congress has petP tioned the Government to abolish,all municipalities, except Johannesburg and Pretoria, and re-establish the old town regulations,