LATE CABLES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10817, 6 December 1902, Page 8

LATE CABLES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Press Association. — Telegraph. -^Copyright Eeceived December 5, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, December 4. . The Indefatigable has been ordered to j proceed from Trindad to Laguayra. Admiral Doug-las is able to land 800 men ] there. ■ - There was a dramatic scene in Court during the Hartopp divorce Buit'. 0. rW.' Wilson, Lady Hartopp's father, protested to the Judge against the "stuflied insolence of counsel's -- cross-examination, .of , hiSx daughter. .Pointing to- ;Hartopp, Wilson ] shouted, <JltJ It was" sufficient degradation to be tied to that lying' Scoundrel." The ( Hon. A..J. Balfour, in a satirical analytical pamphlet, replied to the Eev Dr Jdh'n Clifford's pamphlet denouncing the Education , Bill, . describing Dr^ Clifford a's an unconscious victim' of his own rhetoric. [Df Clifford is an ex-president of the Bagtist Union.] Germany for months has strongly opposed the Russian and Austrian 'efforts to induce the Sultan to grant reforms in declaring their rash diplomacy imperilled the "*peace of Europe. Finding opposition' futile, Germany has suddenly urged .the same reforms, her newspapers • cojnpletely ignoring' Austria's share in enforcing' the reforms. The Vienna newspapers express disgust. The. wool sales have closed with strong prices, the highest of the series. • At tho wool sales the Clarence din sold at B^d. MELBOURNE, December 5. The League of Wheelmen Appeal Bourd has confirmed the disqualification of Don Walker for "stiff" riding last Saturday. ADELAIDE, December 5. The Advertiser estimates the wheat yield at 8,200,000 bushels, an average of seven bushels; 5,435,000 bushels will be available for export. SYDNEY* December 5. In moving the second reading in the Council of the Infants' Protection Bill, designed to protect the lives of illegitimates, Dr Mackellar statetl that the ille-' gitimate birth rate in Sydney and suburbs was 10 per cent, while in the country it Was 5 per cent. The mortality in the first haff-year wad 287 per thousand, compared with 89 per thousand of legitimates. A strange case at Ashfield is being investigated by the Coroner. A woman died after an accouchment, and refused to permit the nurse to get a doctor, preferring to commit her case to the efforts of prayer. The woman belonged to the Zionists, and the pastor and deacons called in prayed continuously for the cure of the